If “Alien” broke ground as a haunted house movie in outer space, “I.S.S.” moves the suspense thriller into a similar confined and tense setting. Yet despite the gravity of the situation (or lack thereof), the promising idea feels too weightless in the spare, underdeveloped execution, operating at the edges of a good movie without reaching that orbit.
Early in "I.S.S.," the new International Space Station-set thriller directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, three Russian cosmonauts croon along to "Wind of Change" by the German band Scorpions. The 1991 power ballad was widely associated with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold
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