Titan, The

UK / Spain / USA / Germany • 2016 • 97m •

• Directed by: Lennart Ruff. • Starring: Sam Worthington, Taylor Schilling, Tom Wilkinson, Agyness Deyn, Nathalie Emmanuel, Corey Johnson, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Aaron Heffernan, Nathalie Poza, Steven Cree, Diego Boneta, Alex Lanipekun, Noah Jupe. • Music by: Fil Eisler.

A military family takes part in a ground-breaking experiment of genetic evolution and space exploration.

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In the future, resources become scarce, there are riots and sandstorms in California. A family is being moved in a caravan to some NATO facility on the East Coast. They are placed in a mansion along a bunch of other identical mansions. We learn that the guy, Rick, was a soldier who got lost in Syria but survived. The wife, Abi, is a pediatrician. Soon they are visited by one professor Collingwood. And little by little we learn what all this is about. Rick is part of the Titan Program. He along with 20 others will be sent to Titan to explore the possibility of a human exodus over there. Yet they know very well that Titan is hardly suitable for live. So the astronauts will have to undergo procedures to alter their metabolism. They'll have to survive with little oxygen, their eyes will have to be able to see in the dark. So they subject them to dozens of injections, which do work, but of course also have side effects. Their veins start popping, they are turning very pale, they start shedding skin, and ultimately become violent. NATO itself has to start killing some of these guys off who attack their own families.

By then Abi is tired of the lies and excuses and goes investigating into the professors lab and discovers that to alter the pioneers' metabolism, their DNA had to be altered. To what though? And that's the surprise here. When they do some procedure on the space travellers' eyes, they go blind and others have their eyes explode. So the professor decides that they all have to undergo some surgery. It's not clear what happens next but by then all but Rick and a girl survive and, well, they have been transformed.

At this point, very late in the movie, it turns more into a family drama. The professor suggests that Rick has to undergo a chemical lobotomy to forget his past if he's going to make it on Titan. There is some back and forth about whether the family and a rogue scientist will protect him or whether the project will continue at all.

The idea, while not new, is good. And it would have made a great sci-fihorroraction thriller. They had the cast and the resources but instead filmed it, like so many movies and TV series these days, with a European flavor a I would say, that is devoid of any excitement whatsoever such that it became a dull sci-fi drama. They could have done a lot more with the twist but they didn't. Mind you, by the time 1 hour has gone by you wonder whether they will ever make it to Titan and if not, what's the point of this movie. And there really isn't one, aside from boring the audience.

Review by TdSmth5 from the Internet Movie Database.

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