Movie in which most of humanity seem to live in giant space stations around Earth, and a few remote locations far away. Everyone wants to go to Rhea, the "new Earth", where a clean simple life awaits, as long as you have enough money. A young doctor decides to raise that money by going on a long-haul freighter run to an unmanned station that will soon be a connecting hub and location for planetary exploration.

I just finished watching this Swiss movie, and I thought it was quite good. Don't expect Avatar, it was made with a more reasonable budget, but it looks good. Keep expectations within reason, and you will enjoy it more than watching your favorites again for the 98th time. It is in German, so subtitles would be in order. Basically, instead of watching a BS Syfy movie of the week, watch this one instead!

Cargo was released in 2009.

It's been on my netflix queue, but no idea how long. Still no release date there. Sounds really good.

Hmmm..seems interesting enough. Since you liked it Rick, I'm assuming that the film didn't have a preachy eco message to it?

Not really no. I mean it starts off with talk of Earth being uninhabitable, I THINK there was mention biowarfare. Then they also deal with a terrorist group responsible for some attacks. But that's not really the focus of the movie, and is quickly forgotten: the station most live on we don't get to see much before we leave, but it seems like a somewhat bland and prosperity is perhaps hard to come by, thus the main character decides to do the shipping run, 4 years there, 4 years back.

But no, it doesn't have that "humans are evil" type of message seen in certain recent movies.

BTW: when I first heard of this movie, I wondered if it was similar to Pandorum, the horror movie of a couple years ago...that I've not seen. Is Pandorum any good? Only about scary thrills, or is there a real story to it too?

It's in my Netflix queue so I haven't seen it yet but the reviews I've read have been mostly favorable. Basically it's a pretty creepy and dark low budget sci-fi movie.

Thanks. Very good scifi movie.

For those who have seen it:

Ordered up Cargo on bluray should be here sometime next week.

For those who have seen it:
SPOILER!!