There are echoes here of “Never Let Me Go” in that sense, albeit considerably less dark and resonant. The actual tension ultimately has little to do with space colonies or oxygen canisters, but rather the hopelessness and anger unique to adolescents with nothing to look forward to. At such points, it almost feels like they’re killing time in order to expand the story to feature length. “Crater” is still fairly weightless as drama, especially during a narrative detour in which the friends go on a detour in search of more oxygen after they deplete most of theirs while messing around. Frequently cast as the main character’s younger self in flashbacks, including in 2021’s “Malignant,” Grace shows here that she’s more than ready to lead a film. Mckenna Grace, a precocious young talent previously seen in everything from “I, Tonya” and “Gifted” to “Captain Marvel” and “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” delivers the strongest performance of the ensemble.
Is the sky really blue on Earth, they wonder, and what exactly is the appeal of baseball? Children born there don’t learn about anything that doesn’t pertain to mining, meaning they have questions aplenty for Addison. Downtrodden earthlings are lured to the moon by the promise that 20 years of hard labor mining helium will earn them and their loved ones a much sought-after place on Omega what they aren’t told about is all the fine print that extends those contracts by years if not decades.
They’re…they’re peculiar!” He’s not wrong, and that dynamic is the basis for the film’s most compelling world-building. It’s a tension summarized by Borney: “Earth people have different ways. That’s a fairly heavy premise for a YA drama from the Disney stable, but “Crater” stays light on its feet.Īll is not well, however, between the members of the group who were born on the colony and the one who recently arrived from the planet it orbits. Hence their risky plan: Caleb’s father was always curious about the crater, and Caleb wants to visit it as a kind of memorial.
The journey necessitates cryostasis, meaning Caleb will wake up the same age he is today and never see his friends again. The group shares a kind of resigned acceptance about their environment, but there isn’t much optimism among them.Ĭaleb’s father, a miner on the lunar colony who died in the line of duty, affords him one of the “death benefits” of being sent to Omega, a faraway colony that takes 75 years to reach. Chief among them are the recently orphaned Caleb and his three besties, Dylan, Borney, and Marcus, who become a quintet when they enlist the help of newly arrived earthling Addison in making their plan a reality. Set in 2257, the teens dress and speak remarkably like those of today, perhaps because those who have grown up on the unnamed lunar colony have an unstuck-in-time quality.
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