One way to look at Gabriela Cowperthwaite s "I.S.S." is as a paranoid-claustrophobic workplace drama along the lines of John Carpenter s "The Thing" (1982).
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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.
After a nuclear war appears to break out on Earth, orbiting American and Russian space scientists begin to view each other with suspicion in a sci-fi thriller.