Jason Engram

Painful to watch. Only because it is horribly, horribly boring, dull, and unexciting. It is divided into Acts that are the number of years from the initial event. Except for the opening Act, there is utterly NO suspense, or excitement. The viewer spends just under two hours watching people do nothing interesting. Even the dialog is delivered in a dull, uninteresting way. It quickly becomes apparent to the viewer and passengers that there is NO hope whatsoever. But wait! About halfway into the movie, they discover a small spaceship is coming from behind them on their course. They speculate that it's an unmanned ship perhaps bringing fuel for their reactor, because it's just big enough to carry what they'd need. This plotline had SO much potential, but it was completely wasted. When they get the ship on board, they discover that it's made of an element they have never seen before, and they are completely unable to crack into the ship, and apparently can't even scan the interior. In the end, they NEVER find out what it is. Instead, in the second to last Act, called "Sarcophagus", it's 24 years after the event. The little ship sits uncracked in the hangar, and the Anaria is dead, remaining purely ballistic, with only a handful of people left. The Act's only long enough for one character to deliver gibberish (in any language), and it cuts to the final Act. So, in the end, everyone dies. The ship continues on its ballistic course, the final act being 5.4 million years in future, as it slips into orbit of an impliedly Earthlike planet in the Lyra Cluster, and the credits roll.