‘The Titan’ Review: Sam Worthington Tries to Live on Saturn in Weak Netflix Sci-Fi Thriller

A clever but unformed hunk of speculative science-fiction, Lennart Ruff’s “The Titan” is essentially two parallel stories of survival that are being told at the same time.

One is physical and intimate; the other is abstract and infinite.

Strangely, they’re both far more interesting on their own than they are cut together, but each of them poses a handful of intriguing questions about our instinct for self-preservation, asking us to locate the point at which trauma might change the basic foundation of who (or what) we are.

If only these questions were posed intriguingly, and not just churned through the machinations of genre shlock that doesn’t have the courage to be as smart as either of its stories require it to be.The year is 2048, and the Earth isn’t going to be inhabitable for all that much longer.

It’s the usual cocktail of apocalyptic trouble: nuclear war,

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