2024 · sci-fi · thriller · space
I.S.S.
Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite1h 36m2024
Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. U.S. and Russian astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.
Our read: I.S.S. (2024) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · thriller · space entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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