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Let’s be honest: science fiction is difficult to pull out in the budget. You have big ideas, complicated emotions, and usually don’t have enough money to create something cooler than a flashing hallway. But now and then a movie like Orbiter 9 Comes with you and reminds you that sci-Fi does not require lasers or explosions to get under the skin, it only needs a powerful hook, human core, and actors who do not flicker when saying “Life Support Failure”.
Directed by the first timer Hatem Khraiche and was released in 2017, Orbiter 9 There is a Spanish-Columbian movie that begins in an intimate, quiet and promise. It focuses on a young woman named Helen, who was played by Clara Lago, who seems to have one deep space on the mission with a real emotional gravity. Then someone unexpected appears. And then the movie starts to change. Because Orbiter 9 It works best when you do not know exactly where it is. Setup is tight, tension is slowly increasing, and when it is finally successful, it is earned.
The kits are minimal but efficient and the sound design pulls its weight. The world has a cool sterility that makes it feel enough to guess you. And although there is no larger lacquer sci-fi Price, it doesn’t need it. Emotional rates are in front and center, and there the movie wants to live.
Clara Lago carries a movie. She is in almost every scene and makes an internal conflict to feel real, never too necessary to make melodrama. Álex gonzález provides stable support. Chemistry works, but the scenario does not always give them enough to work. It flirts with big ethical issues, then returns before things get too dirty. Orbiter 9 Gestures on the deep sci-fi, but it’s really a love story wrapped in space outfits.
Critically, the movie landed somewhere in the middle. It has a 67% figure Rotten tomatoesNot slaughtered, but respectable. The audience was less kind, giving it a cooler reception, with a rotten tomato audience score of about 40% and IMDB average 5.9/10. It has never broken wide internationally but rather NetflixWhere it made his debut around the world, it quietly highlighted the curious sci-Fi fan audience looking for something outside the Hollywood car.
Orbiter 9 Not perfect. It starts strongly, stumbles a bit at the back and plays things too safe when it should make a leap. But it also tries something thoughtful. It is science fiction as a piece of mood, romance as a mystery box. And it is worth the time, even if it does not land.
Just don’t go waiting for scissors or space battles. This is quieter than that. This is the type of sci-fi you look at alone at midnight and think about the days.
