MamaGravity
good back-story, and good acting
Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Logan
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
ervin-69188
Great yet simple plot, minimalist scenery, no ballast, right balance between action and suspense. I enjoyed watching this movie a lot.I bumped into it accidentally while browsing through last days of programme on SciFi channel. Does anybody else gets a association with another great movie, even better in my opinion? Enemy Mine comes to mind on more that one occasion.
sd ric
First things first: 1.) This movie doesn't feature multi-million-$ cinematics. 2.) You won't get to see countless explosion.Many people assume that 1.) and 2.) are what makes movies good. If you're one of them - just don't watch this.Space Prey reminds me of old movies, it avoids hectic (camera) cuts and plays with the time passed to underline the desert planet's forlornness. The whole movie starts of very slow, speed paces up as it progresses and you learn more about the universe, characters their backgrounds and their motives.What's special about this movie, is that the roles of protagonist and antagonist are extremely blurry and leave room for interpretation and thoughts.The dialogues are great and the story is better than most recent Hollywood projects.Conclusion: This movie doesn't deserve it's bad ranking. The score is based on users watching it having the wrong expectations. If you like slow paced movies with a good story - watch this movie. If you want explosions, don't waste your time.Honorable sidenote: The synchronization is extremely well done.
fedor8
This movie may not be brilliant, but how can some people compare it to "Enemy Mine", one of the worst/dumbest/soppiest and most-overrated sci-fi films of all time. That visually unappealing sentimental politically-correct fluff is sci-fi only in appearance; it's a watered-down version of a guy's flick, watered-down down down all the way to the lowest-common-denominator level of a hankie-wetting weak movie – the sort of demographic group (along with them and others like that) I'd normally expect to watch and weep to its trite, idealistic, pathetic premise. I don't think even Batman and Spiderman movies deserve to be compared to such stuff. Perhaps not even "Avatar"! No. I take that back. "Avatar" is actually even worse than "Enemy Mine".Not that HP doesn't have its own brief moments of misguided lofty idealism – i.e. sheer silliness. Case-in-point: "You harboured fugitives, so it cost you your planet," says Centauri, the main nose-less alien protagonist, to which Jericho (the last human left) responds: "It cost us everything, but we made the right decision." Now that was silly. I don't see how even the most empty-headed, weak, idealistic, brainwashed, naive, weird immoral thing could possibly consider ANY decision that leads to the demise of the entire human race as "the right decision". It boggles the mind. This line alone carries so much bad weight (measured in horse things), that it alone could have sunk this movie, were it not easy to forgive this B-movie its comic-book roots hence justifiable naivety. Fortunately, this was an isolated incident.Three Boba Fetts crash-land on an unknown planet where they chase their escaped prisoner. Well, of course he's a human. Once it is revealed that the three Bobas are in fact nose-less rock-faced aliens, it's just simple 2 + 2 addition from there: the prisoner must be a human. Or do you think anyone out there actually has the nerve to make a sci-fi film that is totally devoid of men? Not a chance. If there are any, please let me know.There are plenty of twists and turns; some work, some don't; some are genuinely surprising, some are predictable. But at least the movie keeps moving, although the non-changing setting will doubtlessly prove too tiresome for some viewers. It also helps that there are no major logic holes. The only dodgy moment I could mention at this point is that Centauri let Jericho live, which makes very little sense. Never were we given enough proof that Centauri hates his race and planet so much that he would let an alien – whom he'd hunted all along until then – destroy it. This is too much of a stretch.Speaking of which, HP's shoe-string budget had been stretched rather well, still looking like a low-budget film but not at the Z-level that for example Sci-fi Channel's generally plastic-looking produce normally does. I like the setting, the costumes are quite OK; I see no reason for complaints there. No-one has make-up or is wearing strange blouses.
Greekguy
To all of those who convinced me to see this particular example of the sci-fi genre that I love, I curse you. Indeed, I hope that you never find good sleep, al dente farfala or a real fashion bargain. I mean, what were you thinking? There were, for instance, reviews that mentioned character-driven narratives and other reviews that mentioned Star Wars. What none of these reviews, or comments from those that I read prior to purchasing these DVD, was that this film did not work. On any level! To understand what I'm saying, you must understand that I really like bad films, I thrill to controversial films, and I adore good films. This is none of them.What kind of film is this? This is a film devoid of believable action, and yet not worthy of that bad-film endorsement that films by Ed Wood, Michel Carreras, Arthur Seidelman and others get. In short, this is a terrible example of middle-of-the-road effort, sub-par performances, and mundane play-acting that deserves no credit as a howler and no endorsement as a genuine effort in its field. In fact, this film does a disservice to other films that might try to win our affections for an outlandish but exciting story. Booh to it,and booh, too, to those who who praise it.Let's see what we're talking about. Can you make it through the first twenty minutes? Really? Without being a personal friend of the "actors" on the screen? I think not. All in all, not a golden moment for Sci-fi. Despite what anyone will tell you, this one should have been bricked on the head.
