There's a moment right at the end that would have elevated this film to something really worth recommending. Some movies greatly benefit from a conclusion open to interpretation. This is one of them. It gave me the same feeling I had all those years ago watching Total Recall. But they didn't do that here. The final scene is very clear and I think that was a poor choice. Unless the focus is commentary on human behavior, in which case it makes sense. Still, the alternative would have been spectacular.

How cool is Laurence Fishburne? He's been one of my favorite actors since Event Horizon + The Matrix, and in each project following that he never misses. Role of the captain he plays is pretty much perfect. Even when the twists, turns and second-guessing begins, it still fits whatever outcome you may have in mind. That kind of presence and versatility is pure talent, and I never get tired of seeing it. Everybody else does a great job in their respective roles, but Morpheus steals the show.

They likely could have removed 15 minutes and the film would have been better for it. You can definitely feel some drag. While this doesn't outright ruin anything, I probably would have rated it higher otherwise.

Mindgames and science fiction have traditionally gone together well. This one played a lot of mind games and it was done on a lower budget, I expect.

Pure psychological science-fiction with several twists at the end. It was one of those films that you really didn't know where it was going until it got there. I liked how it flipped back and forth between the past and the current deep space expedition. It helped put things in context.

Affleck and Fishbourne played their roles to the tee. At a certain point it felt redundant but I guess it was not unexpected given the outcome.

In a year or so it will probably get relegated to endless repeats on one of the streaming film channels.

Anytime you have a movie in which you learn almost immediately that the protagonist has been subjected to a hibernation-inducing drug (here Casey Affleck) that can cause "confusion and/or memory disturbances" - and there are MULTIPLE "hibernations" - from thence on it really becomes a guessing game what's real, what's not real, who's imaginary, who not, and from what point did the "false reality" start. And this movie had ALL those elements.

And then when you get a drip drip drip of flashbacks you realize there's so much that you can't possibly know, the "what's really going on" is virtually unguessable.

The ship itself was too generic to be special. There are no shots of the ship from the exterior (we later learn why), the acting was adequate but nothing special, there was not very much action except for a few struggles for a gun, no spacewalks, really no twists "within the false reality" - so I didn't find a lot to be impressed about.

His romantic interest Zoe (Emily Beecham) was adorable and truly likable but of course you're wondering throughout the movie whether she's even real or did she die at some point.

It did seem perplexing that when there was a critical uncertainty whether the hull had been damaged or breached they didn't consider a spacewalk to perform a visual inspection. I mean ... that alone would determine if they continue or abort the entire mission.

Also, at the end, when Affleck has to make the critical decision whether this is all real or a false reality a la Total Recall (open the airlock), he seemingly could have put on a spacesuit with a tether "just in case."

For these reasons I'm rating the movie a "6" - just above an average "5".