The Irish Times found that everything in the show is "absurd, generic or risible". He felt that the film was "an audacious if borderline risible psychodrama". The attempts at making the cast seem like convincing astrobiologists were risible. Leslie Halliwell described it as a "very obvious disaster movie with risible dialogue". The verdict of accidental death was seen as risible. More importantly, I found an actor who could play Johnny and not make it risible.