Director Hasraf Dulull (who also came up with the story, scripted by Gary Hall) started out as a special effects artist and has the chops to embellish a set-bound production with visually dazzling impressions of spacecraft and other worlds. “Origin Unknown” couldn’t be much more stripped-down. She’s watched closely by her earthbound overlords (represented by her sister Lena, played by Julie Cox) and her ship’s computer ARTi (voiced by Steven Cree). Years after watching her father die during the first manned flight to Mars, Mack takes the trip herself, to investigate a mysterious cube that’s materialized on the red planet. After the first manned mission to Mars ends in a deadly crash, mission controller Mackenzie Mack Wilson (Sackhoff) assists an artificial intelligence. “Battlestar Galactica” tough gal Katee Sackhoff stars as Mack Wilson, a scientist and adventurer trained in interplanetary travel. The story’s too elementary, but a strong lead performance and clever staging make “2036” something committed genre fans might appreciate. Borrowing liberally from “2001,” “Moon” and what TV writers call “bottle episodes,” the science-fiction mystery “2036 Origin Unknown” is speculative fiction with a strong human presence.
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