A soldier is part of a prison break and joins his fellow ex-inmates in a long lasting rebellion. On a mission to transfer computer data and save his father, he is stranded on a desert moon.
Terrible. The hour and a half duration seemed to take forever because of lack of plot and characters. The plot was almost interesting at the beginning and end, but there was this giant gap in the middle when nothing happened. There were really only 2 characters: the soldier and the ship's computer. I didn't like either one of them. The dialogue and acting would have seemed about right in a Syfy channel movie, but I would expect better from an independent Australian flick. There were 2 sets/locations: inside the ship and a desert. The costumes seemed a little janky too. It looks like they ironed patches on tight shirts, but had some professional looking space helmets made. Camera-work suffered from a lack of variety and corner cutting to aid special effects. Why shoot something that looks good when you can make the CG department's job a thousand times easier by shooting crap? The special effects were obviously all CG. I saw 1 fire that I thought might have been real. At least they showed off the monster in a daylight scene. Audio seemed fine, was mixed well and included no annoying noises or poorly chosen music. This whole film really seemed like a Syfy channel production. Other critics give this an F grade at less than 50% and I agree. I rate this bad for being poorly written, poorly produced and uncreative.
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