The Tank

May be based on true facts about Mars Simulation Projects but NOT the plot as I could find no such story out there. Very misleading to viewers. Ugh.

I really wanted to like this movie. Several actors are recognizable from films and television that I've liked. It's written and directed by women. I enjoy science fiction (if this is based on a true story, the information is lacking). I enjoy isolation and survival stories... The story and the performances falls off the rails at some point. Several plot points are not explained or resolved and there are many questions left unanswered.

Basically everything what might be is wrong with this picture. Any in-depth analysis would be an undeserved flatter.

1. The premise is hard to define if there is any.

2. The plot stumbles, stutters and staggers with no rhyme nor reason.

3. The acting is horrendously incompetent.

4. Music there is none - just noises.

5. The resolution does not resolve anything and tends to the incomprehensible.

One may get to like however, the scene where a gangrenous leg is impromptu amputated by means of an electric non-surgical knife. But this belongs rather to WRONG TURN series than to sci-fi genre.

A better script would have made this film a lot more bearable. I can believe that incompetence or greed might have made a mission destined to fail. But the whole idea was that they rushed the project through to spend their budget surplus. First of all, there are substantially better way to do that. But second and more importantly, how could you rush a project like this that requires setting up a simulated Martian habitat in one of the most inhospitable places on earth?

Furthermore, a simulated mission of Mars analogue conditions would be under constant surveillance. An important aspect of these missions is learning what kinds of interpersonal issues arise and how to determine if a given person is suitable for this kind of mission.

I'm a big fan of science fiction and want there to be some attempt at having science be part of it.

An interesting take on a space movie - being not really a space movie. Plot holes were wayyy too obvious and the flash forwards although good attempts at making the storyline believable, still weren't. Using more logic in the writing/making of this movie would have done wonders. Guessing this was done on a small budget and it did well using that. Some legit scenes which were emotional and moving.