Love (2011)
IMDb meta-data is a runtime 1h 24m, rated 5.4 by 9,100 cineastes.
Genre: Sy Fy; Species: Incomprehensible.
DNA: USA.
Verdict: Huh?
Tagline: Look, Ma, no … point.
IMDb summary: ‘The year 2039. Captain Lee Miller is a lone astronaut stationed aboard the International Space Station. During downtime, he reads the journal of Captain Lee Briggs, a soldier during the American Civil War. Abruptly, contact with Earth goes dead and Miller is left alone aboard the space station.’
It seems men keep journals and women keep diaries. Let’s think about that some other time.
Ingenious and pointless, like the title.
It opens with a long and puzzling Civil War battle (re-enactment) and then, gets even muddier. The date 4 June 1864 is specified, to no purpose it seemed within my attention span.
Astronaut Robinson Crusoe marooned in space is a well worn trope, and every time I have seen it, starting with Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) it is, well … boring. Without a doubt the prize for most boring instance to date within my ken goes to Magellan (2017), as discussed elsewhere on this blog. This one gets a dishonourable mention.