Curapedi
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Adeel Hail
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
Ricardo Daly
The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
FreedomWatchTower
A Movie filled with known Story, Plot devices and Atmosphere, or as one Reviewer put it "The Crazies in Space". While this might be true in some fashion or another it oversimplifies the whole experience, if one would describe it with 3 Movies you could say it kind of is a mix of "Alien" (1979) (for most of the Atmosphere and corporate business critique on a Ship, and Sending a Team to check whats going on), "The Thing" (1982) (for its Paranoia between the main characters, and whose actions are driven by it) & "The Signal" (2007) (& Last but not least this little Horror Indie Gem, for its Signal that drives people into Psychotic Maniacs attacking each other).The biggest complain i have with this Film is that while not being the most unique Film of its genre, it sure shows its potential, because you can see from the get-go that the Movie suffers from a way too tiny Budget. You can see it on the Sets, on the sfx and even hear it on its Score, but still with all the cheap looking sets you can see what could have been if the minuscule Budget of 800K was pushed to 5 Million. There are lots of Scenes where you can see the Beauty in Lighting and Color, Camera movements and even some acted out Scenes by the protagonists and their conflicts. Another complain is the Actor of the Main-Character, while he is not the best actor (and not that bad either) there still are a couple of scenes where he overreacts or simply reacts a certain way which does not really suit the Scene (this could also be put on the Directors corner), This Actor would have been better suited if he had a different Role.Its not the most original Work, but it is hard to come by a decent Scifi Flick at this day and Age, so if you are a Hardcore Scifi Horror Fan, suit yourself and enjoy the Ride, as for my part i enjoyed the Film and em looking forward to what the Director is working on in the Future and hope that he will work himself up to a Point where he gets a Higher Budget to which he can better tell a Story.
krocheav
Now here's an Aussie movie that make you ashamed to be Aussie. If you have the fortitude to sit through this and work out what's going on, then your as foolish as this film maker. You know it's going to be bad when a movie starts with several long written explanation cards trying to set you up for what's about to happen...It's about some top-end elite space rescue team who are jettisoned into a super-deadly toxic situation - then remove their protective clothing - enter deadly infection. Next thing we know they all begin to bash the living tripe out of each other, at the same time as trying to out-swear a swear-fest - I mean this is non-stop 100 decibel verbal and physical abuse - the writer/director is probably hoping you will forget to notice the lack of solid story line.It's the 23rd Century and here they are running around with space guns that look as if they came from a two dollar shop and much of the internal space craft equipment runs on old rubber belts. Most of the computer screens are 70's type mono-tone green - how coool is that!. This filmmakers name: Shane Abbess, has to go on the top 10 'must to avoid' lists. If he/they make it big in America it will be because of the comic-book mentality. Run, hide, before you loose 2hrs of valuable time you could invest watching a true classic re-run. To think Australian tax payer 'Arts' fund money went into this abomination...who chooses these projects, and who keeps them in a job?. Beware of the loonies who raved - lest you become one!
malphadour
It starts off with a nice explanation at the start of the movie to tell you what its about.Then you enter a world created by the worst sound engineer in history----or maybe the greatest as he does everything he can to make sure that you can barely hear or understand the absolute garbage script of this film.I had to replay scene after scene to try and work out what they were saying. A lot of the time because it turns out what they were saying made no sense or had absolutely nothing to do with the scene they were in.The producer did a great job and the sets are bang on except for the very strange use of old style monitors with a mono text interface. Why - its the 23rd century - these were old fashioned by 1995!!! The premise is pretty good and so is the general plot to start out with, but the directing and obvious chainsaw editing are appalling and coupled with the gibberish script end up making you wonder when its going to end.There are lots of scenes trying to show people slowly going crazy but they are just clumsy and really badly cut together.Overall the film has that sort of Alien feel to it but with almost zero tension. It feels like the director shot a scene, then went a way for a few months, came back made another scene then went away......its like a series of scenes glued together and ends up making not a lot of sense and certainly does not feel like a story.worst sci fi of the year so far - I really don't see what people saw when they scored this 8 or 9 - you might give it a 5 if you really dig the sets but that's about it.
avick-52842
I have watched this film twice as the 1st time it lost me as to what was going on and after the 2nd watch still not sure why they sent a rescue team to get 1 person. The story line is weak as is the dialogue. There is a lot of shouting and running about and dark corridors with dripping stuff and fans, which is similar to other science fiction sets, but I guess a mine like environment would be similar where ever it was built. I didn't think the characters were that good either a military team doing a specialist job would be more joined up than these were portrayed as which was part of the reason the file was so dis-jointed. Overall a confusing film with not much of a story. Without spoiling it for others the ending was a bit random too I think they got home were scanned and that was it.
