Synopsis
As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.
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Cast
- Margaret QualleySam Walden
- Anthony MackieMicah
- Danny HustonHenry Walden
- Tom PayneElon
- Emma FitzgeraldRadio Broadcaster
- Justin Andrew JamiesonTV Broadcast Newscaster
- Teagan JohnsonBoy (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 60
The Guardian
Too measured and sedate for a post-apocalyptic thriller, yet too barren for a Christopher Nolan-style space and time travel epic, IO appears most akin to The Martian in that it focuses primarily on one person’s grit and resourcefulness to endure and grow plants in an unforgiving place. - 60
IGN
IO provides a different take on a familiar premise. The story is intimate in nature, with a plot that highlights the importance of relationships – not just between partners or family members, but relationships in general. Its pacing and lack of urgency betrays the drama though. - 50
RogerEbert.com
Broad themes like staunch hope, and vital human connection, become cheap sentiments, vanishing into air. “IO” isn’t science fiction storytelling distilled so much as it is vaporized. - 40
The New York Times
The dynamic between Sam and Micah shifts the film into romantic melodrama, as lifeless and as chaste as the windswept apocalypse that surrounds them. - 33
Consequence
IO is dull, it drags, and it’ll beg the question: When will this, all of this, be over? - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
There's barely a scene in IO that's performed with pulse or verve. It's Sad-Face Emoji Sci-Fi, with po-faced references to Greek mythology, Chopin and T.S. Eliot, among others, and empirical techno-jargon spoken at a Valley Girl level of credibility.
