The Tank

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.

Based on a True Story... What "True" Story?

I googled, no such "true" story exists.

Obvious flaws in the crew psychological eval. It was all done on the cheap, that's why failure.

When life must be sustained, don't be cheap.

smh

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.

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.