The Tank

Pretty decent start - six people thrown into a tank (think Big Brother), and are left to fend for themselves whilst governmental figurehead tries to push the crew to their limits, with dire consequences.

Standard story really, jazzed up with a bit of sci-fi. The actors must not have seen the set beforehand as it looks like it was made from plywood and glue.

The CGI is like a special one-hour episode of X-Files (1993), and the sound mixing is quite good.

We see most of the deterioration through dialogue and plot, the characters themselves do not develop past their lines and whilst one or two actors do a good job of acting insane, the film's lacklustre pacing gives it a very cheap feel.

If you are a sci-fi fan, this may tickle your ivories, but for the general viewer - go watch Big Brother.

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

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.

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.

If the location of the entire movie is inside a completely self-contained "tank" that is locked from the outside, why is it built in a remote and problematic area like the arctic? Is this really based on a true story?