Wonderful character development!

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Good concept, poorly executed.

Don't Believe the Hype

If you have anything over a 5th grade education, you might want to avoid seeing this and insulting your intelligence! Although the star (Danielle Churchram) is very pretty and (spoiler alert) she can jump around on rocks really good... it's hard to watch anyone do that for the better part of an hour! The music was done well, but the music build up could not be taken seriously as the plot and story line was just that weak. I don't know if you can call this movie a SiFi as that would indicate that there was some kind of science utilized. Whatever scientific information that were spewed from the script's pages, were not even close to being right. Next time guys... Google "What's the speed of light?" instead of making up some silly number! And learn about wormholes and what they're supposed to do! lol

I will not sugar coat it- this is one of the worst film I have ever seen. I am not exaggerating, not many terrible films I have seen quite compare to this one.Since I am a science student, I will start with the rather unconvincing physics in this film- I know I am being pedantic and this is a sci-fi film, but at least try to make it somewhat convincing. First, the protagonist Kate explains how they 'got there'- the Earth was going out of orbit (how?), so scientists used particle colliders to steer the Earth. Wow! Particle colliders to steer the Earth? They really think bumping a few protons together is going to make it all better? Oh but it gets worse, the ocean then 'evaporates'- I appreciate their awareness of climate change, but there just isn't enough fossil fuel, uranium etc. on the planet to do that. Coming onto the plot slightly, they packed a few survivors onto a spaceship as the Earth's ocean was evaporating. Come on, seriously, what were they doing before that? Isn't it a bit too late when the ocean was disappearing? OK, so the Earth was turning into hell and they couldn't find another habitable planet, so they just wondered in space for 40 odd years. Eventually they'll run out of fuel, considering how big that ship is. But OK, let's assume they have fusion power and packed a lot of what's left of the Earth's water on-board, wouldn't 40 years of wondering around still be a problem? Modern sea-faring ships need to be constantly resupplied every few months at best, and repaired every few years or so. But 40 years! Where's the food, repair material etc. coming from? It's like they threw the laws of thermodynamics out of the windows of the ship (if there was one). Now I know this is too much physics, so I'll cover one brief point- when giant chunks were falling out of the sky when their shuttle disintegrates, when they hit the ground maybe a couple of small flames appeared. But in the real world, a chunk that big will destroy a whole city, so Kate wouldn't be dodging those debris- oh no, she'd be dead.Now, the weak understanding of science on this film, which I only mentioned briefly in this review, is only a starter to why it's bad. Another reason is that the plot and characters don't even qualify the title of being 'one-dimensional' (let alone 3 dimensional). I put spoilers because the plot is very easy to describe- our omnipotent heroine somehow survives a crash landing, her friends are all kidnapped or killed. From then on it's just her running around killing things, climb a few mountains, then managed to mount a horse like a pro on her first ride, all without eating, drinking, sleeping and relieving! Plus she was chased by a few monsters, and was stalked by this bloke. Two plus sides are that most of the fights are well choreographed and the music seems appropriate, but everything was falling apart.All the characters are introduced too abruptly as well. Every character just suddenly appear, not to mention the minimal amount of personal back stories to make any of them 3 dimensional- I can count the number of occasions where we can explore their personal history or personality with a single hand- once where Kate explains (briefly) how lucky she survives to the grand old age of 21, and how she loves training, another occasion where the captain talked about horses on Earth, plus one more instance. But most of the time, it feels like- who is this (wo)man? Why is this happening? This is not a mystery or crime drama, where there is eureka moment, the whole thing is too incoherent.The film tried to mimic Planet of Apes' mystery about the truth of the 'alien' planet i.e. the protagonists are totally unaware that it is Earth in the future- and fails. The breadcrumbs were everywhere- horses, people with double barrel shotguns and skiing goggles, so it's very hard not to know that they are home. Lastly, the ending is ridiculous. The chief whose name I cannot remember blows himself up with a dynamite for some reason unexplained- then the bloke-who-was-stalking-Kate gave a very concise inspirational speech to his tribe. Wow, how they suddenly turned from trying to kill him to believing and cheering for him, even after he killed a lot of this own tribe's men.To sum up the whole film- the science is comical, the characters are somewhat stereotypical and not even one-dimensional. Forget about the plot- is there really a plot at all? Not to mention that the attempt to create some 'mystery' complete fails.

I like Kevin Sorbo, he plays the low key hero well. Its just unfortunate he does as many poor roles as he does good ones and I feel he is well under used here instead relying on pretty faces, glossy shots, odd music, dodgy background story, nonsense ongoing story....The story is a pretty basic SciFi stable - mankind messes up the planet, searches for a new one, finds more than they bargained for. Nothing wrong with that except the way they messed it up was pretty non-sensical even in a budget SciFi flic - adjusting Earth's orbit via particle accelerators and creating wormholes throughout the galaxies!!?!?!Err...no on many levels!...and explained in the blink of an eye before falling in to the trap of 'pretty people, ridiculous personal dramas, overly glossy shots...etc' rather than concentrating on quality of the script and screenplay to make up for the lack of £€¥$¢One of only 7 ships, long since lost alone in space, tracks a signal and sends a dropship into a wormhole, where of course disaster strikes and the ship is lost leaving the few survivors (oddly all young, bright tweens, plus for some reason the main ships captain!) stranded on the alien world.Cue hostile humans and monstrous humanoids (and a Horse!!!), all of which appear without any questions from the protagonists...and the humans speak perfect English despite initially having their own language! (I'm surprised it took so long for the survivors to work out the twist - ps Its Earth!)The film then turns in to a montage of scenes in which Danielle Chuchran learns to ride said horse, shows off her athletic and rock-climbing, fights off alien hoards, wins the lottery saves the planet, resets time...err...I think I fell asleep at some point...all thanks to her amazing wrist implant that can perform any task she asks of it (scanning bodies, remote firing ship beacons, atmospheric testing...)Finally things start to move and then it just goes from 'uh?' to 'duh!'And on to the nasty creatures which would have looked at home in the Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately they seems to fit more in to the 'good idea at the time' category than having any real impact. And in any case if this is simply meant to be a 'future earth' then their presence just doesn't make sense in the time scale between ship launch and crash.The movie was at best 'watchable' and filled a few minutes of my life. Unfortunately it was at times rather painful, and at others rather boring thanks to the poor script and storyline,and not least the ending which screamed 'pilot for a series' as there was no real conclusion merely a sort-of-final battle followed by the arrival of the mother ship. .... If it hadn't been for an evening of boring TV I may not have made it to the end (tbh I may not even have gotten through the opening credits with the ridiculous 'earth is doomed' history)There are better films out there on similar themes.3/10

I thought this movie was OK-if you're stuck home sick. It had a good SF premise but it fell apart somehow. They opened the film with a scene of someone falling through empty space-exactly the way the film Predators opens. It shares other similarities with Predators in that some of the "aliens" look like they wandered in from a set of the film Predators. No matter-it was made for light Saturday afternoon viewing anyway, so what the hey. The female lead was in good shape- looking like she had just trained for a Triathlon, which is something you don't see very often in contemporary SF. Good ending-I was expecting a poor one since it became kind of a 'monster mash' somewhere towards the end. All in all it doesn't work as big screen material for one reason or another but it works as a film to watch if you are under the weather. Thats all I got.