It's not like we need to be told that a 'rescue' from a situation like this isn't going to turn out well - all you have to do is watch Alien 3 - the guys from the corporation are never there to help. The 'after the end' framing device removes all drama and surprise from the film, and replaces it with absolutely nothing.
That's the real kicker which makes the whole film so frustrating. Well, other than to have the framing device eat up running time. They don't have their own 'parts' of the story, and there's no reason each one can't tell the whole thing, yet the movie is parceled out into four sections in chronological order for no good reason. As a result, all four of them know everything that happened on the ship. The main action of the film features all four characters running around as a group, trying to accomplish goals. This means that everything they do feels a little pointless, and every death a fait accomplit.Ģ: The 'everyone has a part of the story' thing is completely misused, and has no real value.
Which wouldn't be terrible except for two things:ġ: We already know what happened in the story - everyone on the ship except for the four of them were killed, but they managed to destroy a thing that saved the day.
At fist it seems like the movie is going to be about what happens next to all of these people - but that quickly gets tossed aside in favor of a structure where an interrogator asks them what happened in the plot of the film, and each one tells their own part of the story (each rendered in a different art style).
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