Stowaway (now streaming on Netflix) sees the film-making pair dealing with double the number of characters. Veteran commander Marina Barnett (Toni Collette), on her third and final space mission, acclaimed biologist David Kim (Daniel Dae Kim) and medical researcher Zoe Levenson (Anna Kendrick) are the official crew of MTS-42, a trio charged with a two-year mission to the red planet many believe will provide the first steps to us being able to call it our second-home. While a slightly underperforming main engine during take off comes close to causing them to abort, it isn’t long before they’re settling into their various tasks. During a brief press conference, Zoe enthuses that this is a rare opportunity “to give her life meaning”, while Marina expresses full confidence that her latest colleagues are well-equipped to handle anything that comes their way.
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Photo by Jurgen Olczyk/Netflix When filmmakers decide to take on a project that’s set in space, it’s rarely a story about something going right. Successes don’t have the inherent drama that failures do, and when mistakes happen in space, they automatically involve life-or-death decisions, given the difficulty in getting back to Earth and the relative flimsiness of the spacecraft. The new Netflix movie
Stowaway is full of that kind of drama, if not complete believability. Three astronauts Marina Barnett (Toni Collette), Zoe Levenson (Anna Kendrick), and David Kim (Daniel Dae Kim) launch on a two-year mission to Mars as the film begins. All appears to be going swimmingly until Marina discovers Michael Adams (Shamier Anderson), an engineer who somehow got stuck in a panel aboard the spaceship, unintentionally becoming a stowaway.
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