Overrated and overhyped

Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

I like how this movie takes the natural fears inherent in space travel and takes it to an extreme that I found both terrifying and riveting. I was reminded somewhat of Dark Star, although this is tonally different. Well matched with a Guinness and bowl of microwave popcorn. I suggest you watch it on amazon prime instant, if you have it.

This was not an easy genre of film to make with a lower budget but considering it was i was impressed. The sets and special effects were great and the filming was really top-notch! The acting was a little uneven mostly by the females in the cast but they had their moments too! The men i thought were really good and made the story very intriguing. I would definitely recommend it to others to watch but not to the hyper-critical people who would enjoy picking it apart. People don't realize what goes into making a film and they so easily tear it apart. If you can make a movie for under a million dollars that can hold someones attention for the entire time then you got a decent film!

I would not be as brash as the other negative reviews here; as long as you don't mind the plot unfolding sloooowwwwlly you should watch it yourself and make up your own mind. This is not an action movie although there is the occasional bout of interpersonal shouting, shoving, attempted thumping or incompetent wrestling. It is a drama which takes place on a spaceship traveling from Mars to Earth, the three persons on board having little to do in the way of work apart from minor inspection and maintenance duties.My complaint is that as a psychological drama it doesn't break any new ground but misses opportunities to explore the what, how, and why of the hallucinations the, (in my view very young) crew members experience. Yes, the screen play uses flash backs and a lot of hopping back and forward in the story time line to show each character's subjective experience and I presume that is in order *not* to be a mundane and boring narrative; we the viewers have to work it all out for ourselves. By and large the movie lets us do this, but these three characters are supposed to be the intellectual cream of the crop of university aged students in a future human society on Mars. That being so it seems unlikely that they would all be so naive and lacking in insight concerning the fact of them each having hallucinations.Even if they were all hopeless geeks it beggars belief that the company or government department running the Revitalize Earth project would leave them to run amok on such an expensive spaceship without benefit of some comprehensive training in psychological theory and practice. In other words they would have been discussing their situation in a more rational and insightful way rather than just bickering like a bunch of gormless primary school kids

Fantastic movie, would watch again. It reminds me of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves novel in that it's a well-thought out exploration of humanity in a hypothetical future in which the basic rules of life on earth as we know it have changed. Earthrise doesn't rely on special effects to carry the day, and that's a good thing. While this is a sci-fi film, underneath all that you'll find a compelling story about characters with real depth, all combining to create a though-provoking piece that's as entertaining as it is intellectually stimulating. The filmmakers did a terrific job of creating a living, breathing world and respecting the rules that they set up for the characters.