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In a frame story, a doctor (Marina Sirtis) reviews the recorded memory of Eve, who seems to be the sole survivor of the quintet … and we get several possible versions of what happened while they were drifting in space, including a rampage by the sort of clawed, fanged rogue rubber bioweapon familiar from the Alien knock-offs of the early 1980s, which sticks so closely to cliché that it’s pretty much a certainty that something else is going on under the blood-spurting-body-count/crawling-through-creature-infested-tunnels business. Arrogant shit Franklin (Tim Russ) keeps asking bigoted idiot Li (David Lim) for his important opinion on technical and survival matters Eve is much more qualified to rule on … and there’s plenty of snit left over for the pother non-citizen crew members who have barged in … Thompson (Manu Intiraymi), father of the unborn baby she hasn’t told him about, and medic Myers (Armin Shimerman), who knows something about her medical history she wants kept quiet.

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When a high-handed bigshot (Doug Jones) refuses to let her take manual control from an AI as the ship is entering a meteor swarm, disaster inevitably ensues … and, in the panic, Eve ends up with four other folk in an escape pod supposedly reserved for the elite. On a ship en route to an Earth colony, non-citizen navigator Eve Miller (Morgan Lariah) is scorned as a ‘roach’ by citizen dignitaries.

It also stands as one of the first s-f films of the ‘teens to take account of the actual state of the union, with a future where ‘citizens’ are a privileged category and everyone else gets treated appallingly.

My notes on the science fiction film 5 th Passenger.Īn ambitious, crowd-funded space opera – with a supporting cast who mostly have iterations of the Star Trek franchise on their CV – this plays some interesting games which owe more to recently-busy horror sub-genres, and even uses a science fiction gimmick to deliver a found footage scenario with an unreliable viewpoint.