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Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Too measured and sedate for a post-apocalyptic thriller, yet too barren for a Christopher Nolan-style space and time travel epic, IO appears most akin to The Martian in that it focuses primarily on one person’s grit and resourcefulness to endure and grow plants in an unforgiving place.
- 60IGNKenneth Seward Jr.IGNKenneth Seward Jr.IO provides a different take on a familiar premise. The story is intimate in nature, with a plot that highlights the importance of relationships – not just between partners or family members, but relationships in general. Its pacing and lack of urgency betrays the drama though.
- 50RogerEbert.comNick AllenRogerEbert.comNick AllenBroad themes like staunch hope, and vital human connection, become cheap sentiments, vanishing into air. “IO” isn’t science fiction storytelling distilled so much as it is vaporized.
- 40The New York TimesScott TobiasThe New York TimesScott TobiasThe dynamic between Sam and Micah shifts the film into romantic melodrama, as lifeless and as chaste as the windswept apocalypse that surrounds them.
- 33ConsequenceBlake GobleConsequenceBlake GobleIO is dull, it drags, and it’ll beg the question: When will this, all of this, be over?
- 30The Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichThe Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichThere's barely a scene in IO that's performed with pulse or verve. It's Sad-Face Emoji Sci-Fi, with po-faced references to Greek mythology, Chopin and T.S. Eliot, among others, and empirical techno-jargon spoken at a Valley Girl level of credibility.