Stranded (2001)

• Year: 2001
• Released: 12 Apr 2002
• Country: Spain
• Adwords: 4 wins & 3 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283015/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stranded
• Metacritics:
• Available in: 720p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
• Runtime: 95 min
• Writer: Juan Miguel Aguilera
• Director: María Lidón
• Cast: Vincent Gallo, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida
• Keywords: planet mars, space marine, matter of life and death, woman director, spaceship crash,

5.3/10

Stranded Storyline

A crew of six astronauts is about to make the first manned mission to Mars. They suit up and board their lunar lander. Something goes wrong, however, and the lander malfunctions, crashing into the Mars surface.After the space ship crashes, five of the six crew are left alive: Luca, Jenny, Fidel, Suzanna and Herbert. The captain dies in the crash from a broken neck.After a few days, the scientist on board, Luca, announces that if they are to be rescued, it will take over two years for a ship to reach them. If all five people stay inside the ship, they will use up too much energy and will die from suffocation within a year. Luca tells the survivors that in order to be rescued, three of them will have to kill themselves so the remaining two can use the resources and hold out for the two years.Susana decides, since she was second in command, that herself, Fidel and Herbert will be the ones to die, since Jenny is a doctor and Luca is a pilot, both of their skills would be needed more than theirs.They all sleep one last night, before suiting up. Susana, Fidel and Herbert all suit up in their space suits and set out on their suicide mission. Before they die, they decide to use the little power and oxygen in their space suits to record what they can of the mars surface and transmit it back to the crashed lander, so the people on Earth will have footage.Along the way, Herbert is the first to run out of oxygen. He lies down and dies peacefully, after telling Susanna that he would have wanted to get to know her better.Susanna and Fidel continue on. They find a chasm and enter it. The walls are carved with runes and pictures, something that is obviously impossible without intelligent life. They continue on deeper, and make a shocking discovery – inside the caves, air pressure is at a normal level, as is oxygen and temperature. Just as Fidel’s oxygen tanks run out, he opens his mask, and finds out that this is breathable air inside the caves.Inside the caves, they cannot transmit data to the lander. Luca and Jenny assume they have died, but suddenly they have a crisis of their own. The lander is leaking air. The sensors that detect such a problem failed, and they realize that roughly half of their oxygen has already leaked out. Even with only two people, they will die a year short of their rescue.Luca wants to have sex with Jenny since he is sure they will die very shortly. She turns him down and is determined to fix the leak.While this is going on, Fidel accidentally enters an unpressurized tunnel, which decompresses his body. His internal organs are basically flattened inside of his body, and even though Susanna pulls him back to a pressurized tunnel, he suffocates.Jenny exits the lander in her space suit, but is unable to find the leak. Just as she is about to give up, she hears Susanna over the radio. She has found a way out of the tunnels while remaining in pressurized air, and reestablished contact with the lander. She tells them about the air, and Luca decides to join Jenny in going to find Susanna.They abandon the lander and reach the tunnels, and, much to their surprise, they are very able to breathe the air there.The trio discovers a lake full of drinkable water that some how hasn’t frozen, as well as primitive plant life. They also figure out how to make fire. They decide that they will try to survive as long as they can, using these plants and water.Whether they are rescued or how well their plan works is never shown.

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Stranded Movie Reviews

Better than the first 20 minutes would have you think

Once you get past the first 20 minutes, which contains the worst of the acting and the expository dialogue that invariably that starts with “As you know, Mars/the spaceship/our oxygen supply…,” this is an enjoyable and intelligent movie. Actually, with the proviso that this is indeed science fiction with regard to the more fantastic elements, they made a better fist of the science and technology than any of the Hollywood blockbusters about Mars. The production values are surprisingly high, although real space nerds will notice that the interior of the mars landing spaceship bears more than a passing resemblance to a shuttle mock up and Blake’s 7 fans will notice the wandering-down-the-same-corridor-with-different-lighting trick.

Flawed …….. but fascinating ……………..

It’s low budget. It’s a Spanish sci-fi. The acting can only be described as wooden, especially by Maria Lidon. The science will not hold up to even cursory scrutiny. So why is “Stranded” so interesting? It’s original, that’s why. There are no sand monsters, in fact there is nothing to do battle with, except the hopelessness of the crew’s situation. The underlying logic drives the film, not c.g.i. and that is why the originality. If you enjoy the thrill of discovery, and the deliberate pace is not going to be a problem, then this is a must see. The Martian landscapes are stunning. Even the ending is no cop out, which adds to the realism that has preceded it. – MERK

While There Is Life, There Is Hope

A seven-man crew of international specialists formed by Commander Andre Vishniac (José Sancho); engineer Luca Baglioni (Vincent Gallo); doctor Jenny Johnson (Maria de Medeiros); astrobiologist Fidel Rodrigo (Joaquim de Almeida); pilot Susana Sánchez (María Lidón); geologist Herbert Sagan (Danel Aser); and pilot Lowell (Johnny Ramone) travels to Mars to explore the planet. On the arrival, Lowell stays in orbit in the mothership while the crew lands on Mars. However their spacecraft crashes on the planet and Vishniac breaks his neck. They learn that they are stranded in Mars and Lowell returns to Earth to bring a rescue team. Soon Luca calculates the oxygen, water and supplies and concludes that there are enough for only two of them survive until an eventual rescue team comes to Mars twenty six months later. They decide that the engineer Luca and doctor Jenny should be the ones to stay in the spacecraft due to their specialties. Susan, Rodrigo and Sagan wear their spacesuits to explore the planet and die. But while there is life, there is hope.

“Stranded” is an anguishing low-budget sci-fi developed in very slow pace that builds up tension. The plot is realistic and the pragmatic Luca is a hateful but coherent character. The beautiful cinematography shows the arid landscape of Mars as a hopeless environment for human life. The surprising conclusion gives hope to the survivors to be rescued one day alive. My vote is six.

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