Really, I ought to think about this movie... (I just finished watching it this very minute)... But my head hurts too much from the last few minutes and what with all the Christ symbolism and the worlds-within-worlds stuff that had abused my psyche for the last... What? That was only 1 hour and 21?
OK.
Station was plunging towards the hell-planet... (Why park space station in what they said was a geo-stationary orbit round some seething rock-soup? Was the other portion of the station engaged in some unmentioned automated activity?) There was no sign of atmosphere unless you assume that when we saw the shuttle explode it was breaking up in atmosphere. The station was obviously well above any significant atmosphere. I mean, no sign of buffeting or haloing from superheated gasses. The station was also well protected against any but radiant energy from the planets surface by the vacuum between them. I really don't buy the station being heated by the planet and cooling rapidly when the planet was magically transformed. But that seems to be what the movie is suggesting, because there is no other obvious source of heat... Unless the thrusters are generating it... Maybe that makes some sense, if the thrusters were not intended for use over a long period of time.
But, I can't figure out why the only access to the emergency controls was:
a) Through the convict quarters.
b) Almost impossible to open in an emergency.
c) Under freaking water!
And... What about the spacesuit? They did go out of their way to make it apparent that the helmet and backpack of the suit were quite bulky... BUT Why did nobody think to use the rest of a spacesuit to protect Cesare instead of wrapping him in mattress padding? And how about the protective masks and plastic suits which could, at least have prevented him being soaked while... Oh, never mind.
This movie is a neat looking mind-*beep*, with more than its fair share of pretension and less common sense than it needed.
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