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In the future a crowd sourced mission to Mars (with no hope of return) sees a wife accepted but her husband not. She decides to go anyway, putting stress on the relationship in its final days.

There appears to be a lot of interest in this film. The privately funded ne-way trip to Mars is already a real thing (well, the plan is at least), and the focus on this in the title suggests that this may be a bigger part of the film than it really is. Instead the film is slightly sentimental as it focuses instead on the woman and her husband, and the woman and her father. In doing this the film produces some nice scenes in terms of them being edited together across different times and places, but generally the level of discussions and struggles are at a fairly romantic and slightly unconvincing level. There is a feeling of it being pretty sanitized as a piece – emotionally at least. This does provide some emotional engaging on that level, however it is hard to really feel strongly for it as a film, or for the characters. It does look good with well shot sequences, and nicely constructed montages, however it does feel like the story and the wider concept had so much more to give that this film delivers.