The Challenge

I found this movie to be quite enjoyable and it felet surprisingly short for being such a long movie.

Often foreign movies (even movies from Sweden where I'm from) I find boring and not so good, but I did kind of like this one. Fair enough, I do like space and follow the space industry fairly closely so this helped.

I thoroughly enjoyed the fact we got to see real cosmonoauts, who really delivered in all aspects - kudos to them. A real Soyuz launch from Baikonur, great stuff!

But most importantly, it was great to see the real ISS and some actual zero-G physics in action. Surely enough, the story line went as expected but every movie musn't be Shuttler Island with a twist to be good.

Movie is nice from all points of view. Even if you don't know about real space shooting its' beautiful and precise to details. But when you realize that its real ISS every little detail takes your eye on it. Earth parts, 3d graphic part and real space parts looks really smooth and not makes any dissonance.

Storyline is fine. Characters are shown really nice. Special grats to real spacemen at ISS who uncovered as well as actors. Humanity stepped deeper to space - making entertainment movies in such dangerous and amazing environment.

Director (and operator at space as well) made great job together with actress Yulia Peresild.

I easily can recommend this movie.

I found this movie rather enjoyable. It may have it's issues, after all no movie is perfect. However credit must be given for the performance of the main actress and for the simple fact that this movie was shot in space and still looked good. And to address the negative reviews I must say this. This movie was made to be as realistic as possible and was filmed under significant constrictions. Filming with real equipment for the space programme, aircraft, spacecraft including the ISS, as well as real locations or detailed sets based on them. Multiple "actors" were not experienced actors but space industry professionals. Real cosmonauts, technicians, doctors and others. And finally, when it comes to reviews for this movie on this website I find them extremely suspicious. The majority of the reviews are above 5/10, afterwards very few reviews between 5 and 2/10 , and then a huge spike of 1/10. To me, based on pure logic, this seems like review bombing or negative reviews based only on the fact that this movie is Russian. I find it extremely suspicious that almost nobody reviewed it from 2 to 5.

Absolutely great movie, everything is there. Every second is worth watching. First feature-length fiction film shot in outer space. The actors play very well. The main character is pretty. The astronauts themselves are also real, of course, they don't play very well, but they tried. It was really cool to see the amazing achievements of engineering and science in real life and documented like this, and I felt like I was witnessing something special. Congratulations to the team and the people of Russia for making history! Few movies make one remember that there is still time to do something extraordinary, to push the limits of humankind, but truly. Stole my heart.

Though some parts of the movie takes place in space, you don't categorize it as science-fiction but rather drama. This gives us a clue of a new era not only in space but also in film industry.

Many scenes are not fictious, they are real. They match with what we saw at documentaries about International Space Station (ISS).

I'm not sure whether the blood in an open wound would behave like that, or how real was the operation. That is something a medical doctor can talk more about.

It also seems very dangerous to allow to carry a sharp object during space walk.

The movie deserves an eight from me not only because it is the first movie ever to be filmed in space, but also its extraordinary scenario.