Has anyone seen this movie? I was pleasantly surprised. Don't get me wrong it's not great but it was interesting and pretty well executed.
Long story short: An Earthlike exoplanet called Tanis is discovered in the early 21st century. A probe using an advanced drive is sent there, finds that it's very, very Earthlike and can support life. 22nd century Earth is massively overpopulated, resources are dwindling, etc. A generation ship called the Elysium is built by all nations and 60,000 volunteers set off for Tanis. The journey will take 123 years so multiple crews rotate in two year shifts and go into hypersleep the rest of the time. Hypersleep is a tough process and people wake up with memory loss, mild sickness, etc. Some folks develop a severe type of sickness called pandorum. Another deep space Earth ship suffered a massive disaster when a pandorum affected crew member jettisoned all of the ship's hyperspace modules, killed the remaining crew and then himself. A crewman on the Elysium wakes up out of hypersleep for his 2 year shift. He's out of it, doesn't remember his name, etc. He reads his name off his sleep pod and begins to remember that he is ship's engineer Bower. A second crewman, Lt. Payton, awakens and they realize that they are the only people from their shift that are awake. The power is down and they are cutoff from the rest of ship. The reactor is out of synch and needs to be repaired before the ship's power can be restored. Bower grabs some tools and sets off to restore the power. Then the fun begins. I was surprised at how much I liked the movie. There were a few things that strained logic but it's a fun, scary movie with a healthy dose of semihard sci fi.
