It’s obvious that 5 th Passenger is an Alien knockoff, but it feels more like loving homage than outright theft. By the time a dark and abandoned ship containing incubators is being explored, it should come as no surprise that whatever Franklin’s so tight-lipped about isn’t friendly – and it’s on the pod. Miller’s plan is to sacrifice some of the pod’s oxygen reserves to increase their thrust, bringing them closer to a likely rescue location, which goes down rather predictably with the secretive Franklin, who’s convinced that his contemporaries will be along to rescue him any minute now. The early going is refreshingly devoid of action and horror, instead allowing smart-ish characters to behave in a smart-ish way. But Miller (Lariah), the movie’s obligatory Ellen Ripley stand-in, is the only survivor who seems to be capable enough to get them out of the mess, and she won’t allow her lower-class buddies, Myers (Armin Shimerman) and Thompson (Manu Intiraymi), to be unceremoniously dispatched along the way.
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With oxygen stores running low, the pod’s citizens, Franklin (Tim Russ) and Li (David Lim), debate killing the non-citizen stowaways to free up some air. When their ship is demolished by an asteroid field, five crewmen are bundled into an escape vessel designed for four. The heavy-handed social inequality subtext is courtesy of Scotty Baker, who also directs, with assistance from David Henri Martin and the film’s star, Morgan Lariah.īut 5 th Passenger’s plot is a solid one. In the year 2151, Earth’s population has been ravaged by a class war and even in space inhabitants of ships are divided into “citizens” and “non-citizens” the latter are referred to disparagingly as “roaches” by the bourgeoisie and given no respect, even in positions that they’ve earned.
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