Doug Norrie | publishing
Honestly: Science fiction is difficult to achieve on budget. You have big ideas, complex emotions, and usually don’t have enough money to build something cooler than a blinking corridor. But from time to time, a movie Track 9 Come on, remind you that science fiction doesn’t need a laser or explosion to get into your skin, it just requires a strong hook, a core of a person and actors who don’t blink when saying “life support fails.”
Directed by the first adult Hatem Khraiche and released in 2017 Track 9 It is a Spanish-Colombian film that begins to be intimate, quiet and hopeful. It centers on a young woman named Helena, a real emotional gravity show by Clara Lago, who seems to be performing a deep space mission alone. Then someone appeared unexpectedly. Then the movie starts to change. because Track 9 It works best when you don’t know exactly where it is going. The setting is tight, the tension is slowly generated, and when it finally moves, it earns.
These kits are small but effective, and the sound design pulls its weight. The world has cool sterility that makes it feel enough to make you guess. Although it doesn’t have a bigger sci-fi fare, it doesn’t need it. The emotional bet is front and center, and that’s what the movie wants to live.
Clara Lago carries this movie. She makes the internal conflict feel real in almost every scene without working too hard on the melodrama. Álex González provides reliable support. Chemistry works, but scripts don’t always give them enough work. It flirts with big problems and then backs off before things get too messy. Track 9 Gestures towards the gestures in deep science fiction, but it is indeed a love story wrapped in a space suit.
Critical films land somewhere in the middle. It scored 67% on Rotten Tomatoes, not knockouts, but deserves credit. The audience was not very friendly and gave a cool reception, Rotten Tomatoes scored about 40% and the IMDB averaged 5.9/10. It never exploded internationally, but on Netflix, it made its global debut, quietly carving a group of curious sci-fi fans looking for something outside the Hollywood machine.
Track 9 Not perfect. It starts to be strong, stumbles in the second half and plays things when it should be leaps too safe. But this is also trying something thoughtful. This is an emotional novel, romance as a mysterious box. For this, it’s worth your time even if you don’t land.
Just don’t expect regular drives or space combat. This is quieter than that. It’s the kind of science fiction you watch alone at midnight and think about it for a few days.
