ONLY governments have the power to send citizens to certain death in the name of national interest. William Eubank’s debut film as writer and director uses astronaut Lee Miller as a paradigm for humanity’s future. And a bleaker paradigm is hard to imagine. 

It’s 2045 and Miller has spent six years alone in the International Space Station, now overdue for a major service. Communication with Earth has stopped. Non-renewable and non-replaceable supplies are exhausted. We earthlings have become extinct from an unstated cause.

Gunner Wright, as Miller, carries the main acting task. There are no ETs. Tom DeLong’s musical score “Soul Survivor” is effective. The film’s reported budget was $US500,000. It’s a kind of parable, quasi-intelligent tough stuff delivered without compromise, not so much asking questions as suggesting answers!

At Greater Union