Long Distance
Long Distance
5.751%
After crash-landing on an alien planet, an asteroid miner must contend with the challenges of his new surroundings, while making his way across the harsh terrain to the only other survivor – a woman who is trapped in her escape pod.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 1, 2025
Have had this oft delayed project on my radar for a long time. Naomi Scott, Anthony Ramos, Zachary Quinto, and Kristofer Hivju in a sci-fi thriller. And it’s pretty decent. It’s very similar to the likes of 65, and After Earth (I know, I know. Impossibly high praise). I do think this is marginally better than those films, but I’m kind of a sucker for Alien monster films. There’s not much to the plot. Anthony Ramos’s character crash lands on an alien planet and has to traverse the hostile environment to reach Naomi Scott’s character, Naomi. He doesn’t have much at his disposal aside from a dwindling air supply and an AI assistant, L.E.O.N.A.R.D. voiced by Zachary Quinto. The film despite it’s efforts to be frequently funny, really only succeeds at being mildly humorous. I was expecting pretty low budget effects, but I have to say I thought the film looked good, monsters and all. I have no idea what the budget actually was. My biggest complaint is that for two-thirds of movie, Naomi Scott’s not on screen. She’s only present over comms with Ramos. Ramos is good in lead, but the film had a little more life injected once he’s finally able to interact with her on screen. It’s light on characterization aside from a couple very brief allusions to Ramos’s life before his journey. Even that element doesn’t have much consequence. This is pretty much just a pure sci-fi alien monster movie and with that I was definitely entertained. That Ja Rule gag is wild. Haven’t heard that name since Fyre Island.