When the alien attempts to jump out of a hatch, the men shoot him several times to no avail. After Van orders the men below to investigate, they find the lower deck smashed. The crew listens as the hatch rattles and the grenades explode, but afterward they are amazed when the sounds of the alien crashing about are heard over the radio speaker. After Purdue escapes, Ed orders the hatch sealed and mined with grenades.
Below deck, the pale, limp body of Keinholtz is discovered, and Jack Purdue finds Gino barely alive, wedged in an air duct, but is threatened by the Martian before he can reach him. Later, after crew member Gino Finelli does not return from a trip to the lower deck, his brother Bob grows concerned and demands that Van and the others look for him. While working in the lower part of the ship, crew member Joe Keinholtz hears a strange noise and, upon investigating, is attacked and killed by the Martian. Van and most of the crew are wary of Ed's presence, doubting his story that while returning to the ship from a day of exploration, his crew was chased by an unidentified creature and subsequently disappeared in a sand storm. On Mars, as the rescue ship prepares to blast off, an alien boards the ship through an open hatch and hides in the storage compartment. Under suspicion for murdering the crew, Ed is being brought back to Earth for a court-martial. Edward Carruthers, that he is the lone survivor of his crew of nine.
But if you let that go, this is reasonably fluid pulp entertainment, crafted efficiently by Finnish director Timo Vuorensola, who is clearly trying to go a little legit after having made his reputation with the cult comedy nonsense that is the Iron Sky series.ĩ7 Minutes is released on 10 July on digital platforms.In 1973, the United States Space Commission announces that a spaceship under the command of Van Heusen has been sent to rescue the first spacecraft to land on Mars, after receiving notification from its commander, Col. The script, meanwhile, throws in a few interesting spins on the formula in the last act, although the very last twist is perhaps a turn too far given it annihilates the twist just before that.
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The always-compelling Rhys Meyers brings a certain icy darkness to the role of Alex who sometimes seems a bit too ruthless to be a good cop while Buring is relatable as the panicked medical professional with her own demons. In essence, Pavan Grover’s script feels like a more complicated variation on the runaway trolley problem much debated by philosophers, but here there are also military jets trying to shoot the trolley/airplane and pauses for characters to reminisce about loved ones lost in the “war on terror”. That strategy ultimately kills the poor pilot, in front of his young son (Jake Hayes) no less, but Alex and Kim seemingly have no other choice if they are to save everyone else on the plane. Meanwhile, one of the hijackers, Alex (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), turns out to be an embedded Interpol agent who in turn conscripts a former doctor, Kim (MyAnna Buring), into helping him revive the pilot temporarily with EpiPen shots in order to get advice on guiding the plane. There are civilian passengers on board, so if the plane is to land before it runs out of fuel, national security agents on the ground, led by director Hawkins (Alec Baldwin, presumably hustling up some scratch for his legal bills), must find a way of turning the autopilot on or shooting down the plane before it becomes a weapon in itself. During the tussle for control, the pilot is seriously injured, the co-pilot killed, and the fuselage pierced by a couple of bullets from 3D-printed guns, creating an unstable altitude-pressure situation. In this film’s world, the clock starts ticking when a vaguely defined quasi-Slavic terrorist cell hijack a plane bound for JFK over the Atlantic Ocean. Not that making it longer would have improved it particularly, but ensuring it unfolded in real time would have slightly enhanced, at least in formal terms, an otherwise decent but nondescript action thriller. There is something deeply irksome about this film: it’s called 97 Minutes and yet is, in fact, roughly 93 minutes long.
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