Just watched this last night; one must always be careful renting straight-to-DVD Sci-Fi films, but I had a free rental coming from the local video joint so I figured hey what the heck . . .

Not bad; small cast, decent special effects surrounding the story of a Jupiter space station whose four-person crew must decide what to do after everything has apparently "gone dark" on Earth. Later on a shuttle carrying three other people arrive, survivors of the apocalyptic event; was it a nuclear war, or the result of some CERN-type experiment gone horribly wrong? We never definitively find out, and the viewer is left to decide.

Among the now-combined crew of the station and the shuttle, the remaining survivors start to go crackers as they fight over an ever-dwindling supply of rations and air in an effort to survive as long as possible.

A unique feature of this film was the interracial relationship between Omar Epps and Kate Walsh-- a black man and a white woman; most films featuring interracial relationships feature the reverse (white man with a minority of any race), AND Mr. Epps was also the male lead throughout the film; this is rare across film genres, but almost non-existent in Sci-Fi . . . and was treated in the film as completely unremarkable, which was another plus. Also, these two characters were flip-flopped in age; SHE was older than HIM (at the time of filming, Walsh was around 51, Epps, 45).

Heh, I will say that a familiar film trope was used regarding the sleeping arrangements-- she appeared to prefer sleeping in the nude, while he was fully clothed (common in film, where the female is often in a state of undress, while the guy has all his clothes on!).

Anyway, not a great film, but fine for a one-time viewing, with honest effort put in by the director and cast.