Lifepod (1993 TV Movie)
3/10
REALLY BAD SCIENCE
15 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers
While in route from Venus to Earth a space liner carrying 2,000 people blows up due to sabotage. A group of people escape into a poorly equipped space pod and somewhat drift in space, the only part of space that has its own gravity. They were blown there by the force of the exploding spaceship (which made a big bang) in the icy vacuum of space. The escapees wear oxygen masks until debris knocks holes in the shell of the craft, then they come out of them to breath all the air provided by outer space. Even the radiation sickness was unbelievable. The science was incredibly bad.

Now the story behind the story was more interesting and would have made a better movie, had it not been done. Earthcore, is an evil corporation/government group which is most concerned about mining profits over people. Venus has rebels which want to free themselves from Earthcore and their re-education camps. The star ship could have been blown up by Earthcore, so they could blame the rebels and then send in the troops (shades of Gulf of Tonkin).

Everyone on board the lifepod has a motive, so this is supposed to be a who-dun-it. However there is too much else going on to turn this into a Clue game.

Special effects include shaking a camera, computer generated animation, and did I mention shaking a camera?
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