Stop raising the price of people's subscription to keep churning out this utter garbage all the time! The cast literally means NOTHING without a decent well written story & this was just a predictable snooze fest!

Does anyone remember the Apollo 13 mission where they had to build a CO2 scrubber to clean the air? One would expect that someone at NASA would. What do you think the odds are they would launch a mission to Mars without at least 1, if not several fully functional replacements. I certainly did.

So when the whole mission goes to hell because the SINGLE CO2 scrubber on a two year long mission to Mars is broken beyond repair .... well that is kind of hard to believe.

Then they go outside. The majority of the time they are untethered. When climbing a pole they go hand over hand, some of the time, without being tethered and, occasionally with BOTH hands off the pole! Any climber knows you always keep 3 points in contact and only move 1 at a time. In this case they only have 2 but you would NEVER take both hands off even if you were tethered, which they are not.

Then the most important thing they are carrying slips and flies away. Why? Because it wasn't tethered either. Smh

There are other flaws but those alone are enough to remove all possibility of suspension of disbelief.

This is all the writers fault for not having a clue they were doing.

Acting is good enough and so are the special effects.

It the braindead plot that turns a 7 into a 3.

Shame on everyone involved for not demanding the script be rewritten to be at least close to plausible. :(

I know it is called third wheel ... but on a spaceship it doesn't even matter. I actually thought about going with a Red Hot Chilli Peppers song (give it away) ... not sure if it would have been the better or more apt description. Now to know that or what I mean you probably would at least have to have watched the trailer, so let's not get ahead of ourselves.

I was subjected to the trailer, but I succesfully was able to not really digest any of what was shown, because I distracted myself during the times it played at a festival I attended. So I can't even tell you how much you are aware of what the movie will be about, if you have seen the trailer. Having said that, it is clear that not all will stay good and well with our mission. There has to be conflict and danger for us to get involved.

As much as I love Anna Kendrick, I am not sure how much she will connect with the audience. If you love her anyway the relative blandness of her character will not matter that much ... I could relate to Daniel Dae Kim the most. Not the scientist part or his drive overall, but his struggle and his logic. Now there are themes here that are worth to be discussed .. philosophically and otherwise ... and then there is a plain truth. And a bit of a strange third act to say the least ... not sure if it saves anything (no pun intended) ... but the movie overall has some flaws ... a lot of them actually. Still I like Science Fiction movies, so I cut it some slack ... and then some. Also I like the actors ...