in space” status which means we get a lot of angst and depressing character backstories filling up the way-too-long two-hour runtime.gets very talky. The kids share details about their rather sad lives as the progeny of mining parents who have essentially been turned into indentured servants. Promised tickets to Omega after 20 years of work, the common theme is that most workers have been bait-and-switched into laboring away the arbitrarily assigned debt that has locked them to the mines.
That maudlin approach carries through to the very end, with director Kyle Patrick Alvarez sacrificing narrative sense and three-quarters of his own cast for an out-of-nowhere conclusion that is so emotionally over-orchestrated, it might as well come with an onion peeler to forcibly squeeze the tears out of its viewers.