It's a wonder that anyone is still interested in becoming an astronaut after the procession of cinematic calamities that have befallen space travelers over the years.
Netflix seems to be pursuing a specialty in the genre, with Stowaway arriving shortly on the heels of the apocalyptic George Clooney starrer The Midnight Sky.
Joe Penna's sophomore feature clearly owes a debt to 1969's Marooned in its depiction of a small space crew dealing with a life-threatening crisis.
Stowaway is more confined and claustrophobic than most films of its type, set entirely aboard the confines of a spaceship and featuring but four characters.
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