why anyone’d name a sun-bound craft “Icarus”, I mean sure, I get the humor of it. Maybe.

Far as the flick goes: Interesting premise + excellent effects = possibly very awesome scifi …bogged by mediocre (pretty cast, but you can’t further the story with pretty) acting & predictable plot. Translation? What tf.

Some of the cast have big titles under their belts – Hiroyuki Sanada (Tasogare Seibei? Fncking brilliant!), Michelle Yeoh (cmon, tell me you’ve never seen CTHD) especially. Ok, put Cillian Murphy in there for his ok work in the Batman reboot. So when you see them muck about, it hurts just a little.

Recommendation: Wait for this on vid, or second run theatres. If you just have to screen outer space scifi, choose Solyaris or even Solaris, and you’ll have a much better time of it.