Io 2019

Adventure Drama Romance

Studio	Mandalay Pictures Untitled Entertainment Good Lap Productions Sunset Junction Entertainment Okanagan Media Limited Baked Studios Make It With Gravy Inspire Entertainment
TV Network/Service	Netflix
Release date	Jan 18, 2019
Country	US
Language	English
Runtime	96 min
Rated	TV-14
Technical details	2.39:1

As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.

As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet. (less)

Director: Jonathan Helpert
Writers: Clay Jeter, Charles Spano, Will Basanta
Starring: Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie, Danny Huston, Tom Payne, Emma Fitzgerald, Justin Jamieson
Producer: Jason Michael Berman

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Review

Review by Brian Orndorf, January 24, 2019

Science fiction doesn’t need to be flashy, but it’s always problematic when it’s inert. It’s difficult to understand why “IO” was turned into a picture when it seems perfectly suited to the world of literature, with screenwriters Clay Jeter, Charles Spano, and Will Basanta offered a book’s worth of room to explore the dystopian future setting and themes of isolation and longing. Folded into the shape of a feature, and the material comes across flat and unexciting, with no discernable tension created between the characters as they converse about survival and the end of the world. “IO” isn’t amb ...read more...