Rubikon

This film, set in 2056, takes place in a small space station orbiting a post-apocalyptic Earth when corporations run everything, the rich live under air-purifying domes, and the rest of the people join the corporation's military just to have enough to eat.

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The premise is that a soldier is sent up to the space station to steal the algae-based air-purification system because a toxic-death cloud is about the cover the Earth.

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The way that the three people in the station respond to the sudden cloud formation takes up most of the movie and is a study on the difference between growing up as part of the 1% or part of the 99%.

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The film is a tense, nuanced take on class division, sacrifice, and self-preservation.

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It’s well-cast, well-written, the set is well-designed, and it is interesting all the way to the final scene. This is good science fiction.

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