While Monte (Robert Pattinson) repairs the hull of a spacecraft, his infant daughter watches videos from her crib. Her crying becomes distracting, and Monte drops a tool that falls away into space. As he enters through the airlock, several other spacesuits are on the rack. Where is the rest of the crew? It turns out that the crew consisted of death row criminals who 'volunteered' for a deep space mission to extend their lives. As one would guess, they did not make the best crew. One mission for the ship was to attempt pregnancy. Nurse Dibs (Juliette Binoche), who had killed her own children, was charged with managing this. As the opening shows, she was successful at least once.
The movie unfolds in a non-linear storyline. Initially, there are brief flashes of how Monte earned his spot on the ship. There is a random conversation between a scientist and a reporter on a train about sending convicts into deep space. Then there are scenes that show the crew as it disintegrated and finally self-destructed. As one would guess regarding death row inmates, none of them are particularly likeable, though Monte easily tops the list. Heck, he killed a girl because she killed his dog, or that was how I interpreted it. John Wick in space?
With pregnancy being a central theme, there are a lot of sexual references. The crew mostly doesn't have sex to get pregnant. Rather, Dibs gets the men to donate sperm which she injects. Uh huh. To make them compliant, Dibs also drugs the crew's water supply.
After all the backstory is explained, a return to the present proves to be more than a decade later. Willow is now a young woman and Monte's gray patch has expanded. How far is their destination?
Slow, dreary, and dark. Avoid.
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