Stowaway(2021)

If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog @ https://www.msbreviews.com I'm a genuine lover of every genre in cinema, but sci-fi is one of my absolute favorites. Within this area of storytelling, I find one-location space movies - usually inside a spaceship of some kind - incredibly captivating when done right. Joe Penna (Arctic) directs and co-writes his sophomore film in a challenging…

Reviewed on April 27, 2021

Good watch, might watch again, and can recommend. (Especially for those that liked Gravity.) This is a very smart, and fairly technical movie about space, both surviving and traveling within it. Gravity is the only other movie that seems similar (Passengers is more science fiction), and I'm really hoping to see more science fact movies like this come about. While some of that may put you to sleep, the survival…

Reviewed on June 4, 2021

Stowaway had a solid premise, but it didn’t quite reach its full potential. The story is simple but could have been executed better. The tension is there, and the stakes are high, but a lot of moments feel forced rather than naturally unfolding. It also has some pacing issues, making it feel slower than it needed to be. The moral dilemma at the core is interesting, but the depth of the story doesn’t hit as hard as…

Reviewed on March 5, 2025