This film is great. Many here have mentioned the acting, the effects, the story, etc, and I must agree with them; this is a well-made production with only one major flaw - it is too short. This story deserves a full-length feature film, and possibly a series to follow; there is so much that could be done with this story-line. The ship is cool, the concept is compelling, and the idea of the aliens returning the astronaut to Earth is brilliant! Worth a mention also are the alien craft - they are pretty cool too.
There are, unfortunately, a couple of factual errors in this production though: 1/ As many have mentioned, the pilot really should have been wearing his helmet. If a test-pilot, (which is what the astronaut really is in this picture), is going to test a new space craft or propulsion system, he would always wear a helmet. You never know what your craft will do, or whether there will be a mishap, explosion or decompression, or what else you could encounter on your test-flight, so you would take all precautions possible, which include wearing your helmet to protect your head! That is why real astronauts always wear their helmets during launch and re-entry.
2/ In the scenes where the ship's windows are cracking there would have been a decompression. Remember that there are 14 pounds per square inch of air pressure on the inside of the space craft pushing against each window and absolutely zero pressure outside. Therefore, once any of the windows started cracking it is inevitable that they would blow out under that pressure and decompress the craft instantly, not just show some minor cracking; yet another reason to be wearing a helmet!!! If you are wearing a full space suit with helmet, and an internal air supply, you would have some chance of survival in that event. Without that, you are a meat popsicle!! I suspect that that is one reason that the aliens took him out of the space craft.
It is because of those 2 things that I have taken a mark off, but it is still worth a 9/10 rating to me. This is a good film and I would love to see more of it. Hopefully someone will pick it up and make it into what it should be, a full length feature film and perhaps a series! Bravo!
There are, unfortunately, a couple of factual errors in this production though: 1/ As many have mentioned, the pilot really should have been wearing his helmet. If a test-pilot, (which is what the astronaut really is in this picture), is going to test a new space craft or propulsion system, he would always wear a helmet. You never know what your craft will do, or whether there will be a mishap, explosion or decompression, or what else you could encounter on your test-flight, so you would take all precautions possible, which include wearing your helmet to protect your head! That is why real astronauts always wear their helmets during launch and re-entry.
2/ In the scenes where the ship's windows are cracking there would have been a decompression. Remember that there are 14 pounds per square inch of air pressure on the inside of the space craft pushing against each window and absolutely zero pressure outside. Therefore, once any of the windows started cracking it is inevitable that they would blow out under that pressure and decompress the craft instantly, not just show some minor cracking; yet another reason to be wearing a helmet!!! If you are wearing a full space suit with helmet, and an internal air supply, you would have some chance of survival in that event. Without that, you are a meat popsicle!! I suspect that that is one reason that the aliens took him out of the space craft.
It is because of those 2 things that I have taken a mark off, but it is still worth a 9/10 rating to me. This is a good film and I would love to see more of it. Hopefully someone will pick it up and make it into what it should be, a full length feature film and perhaps a series! Bravo!