Brian Huston

Sometimes a remote setting makes good writing even better, allowing the audience to feel even closer to the character and human development involved. Unfortunately this movies takes that concept to the greatest extent and then sabotages itself at every turn. HAL had more character development in a similar setting without being human. Any attempt at satire is immediately trumped by lack of motivated emotion and lack of scientific logic. A dying man with no interest in who he is. A mute child that adds nothing. A large “evacuation” to death leaving him behind to survive in the last safe space.