Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Its not a sublime movie. It will never get much praise. Ten years later no one will remember it. Its just as silly as every other scifi movie out there with nothing new or groundbreaking to tell.One thing i did notice in this movie. For what little dialog there is in this movie is done behind masks/helmets. And one thing this movie does brake is the mask trap. Over exaggerated head movements while speaking. In fact this the only movie i know where actors don't bob there head around while speaking, they just deliver their lines like anyone would do with or without mask/helm. Even blockbusters, Mad Max, Star Wars, you name it, all of them guilty of the mask trap. Its the first thing i noticed about this movie and its still the first thing i remember of it. Only a detail, but a huge one for such a little movie and one of the reasons why i praise this movie. From all the scifi movies out there, you can go a lot worse.

I loved this film. Sure, some can see parts of it as moving slow, but what they did with their budget is so smart. First off, They use two main characters, one who is covered for a large chunk of the first half of the film. Next they choice the classic desert landscape and make it their own.The main characters have a wonderful dynamic, and they pull a classic sci fi switcheroo (too be as vague as possible and not have a spoiler) which keeps the audience entertained even though we have so few characters.The violence is tight, well shot, and to the point. Just enough for an indie action film to not waste its budget on stunts and choreography.Acting is fine. I wish I could write more about it, but I have to finish writing my sci fi feature now.

Definitely far better than the the IMDb.com rating suggests. The ending is a bit flat, otherwise this is a first-class science fiction story.Although there was obviously a limited budget for this film — there are few actors (none of them well-known) and essentially a single location — the cinematography, the sound quality and the editing are all up to scratch for a major project. The story is good (it kept me hooked) and there is plenty action among some interesting ideas.If you are a science fiction fan with a mental age above 10, you should get some enjoyment from this film. I would especially recommend it if you find many big budget movies to be nothing more than a relentless cacophony of banality and torture porn.

Sorry, but this film isn't nearly as intelligent as it thinks it is or else it would've included more of a reason to care, better character development, and an entertaining story. It starts in space with some weak CGI. True, it's not SyFy channel bad CGI, but it's still obvious CGI that looks sadly amateurish. Then they keep putting a fake planet in the sky for the rest of the movie to remind you it's an alien world, but it just looks like glossy unrealistic CGI. The giant practical skeleton in the sand was much better, but the small budget stares you in the face the entire time. There is a lot of walking around a desert, which is not a bad location and makes for some beautiful landscape shots, but when that's all there is and you keep getting the same kind of shots with only a couple characters, it gets old. Believe me, I like movies that many would consider slow as long as there is a good story and characters to grab hold of. You don't need explosions every ten seconds like some hallow Hollywood piece of crap, but this film is boring. They're trying to capture a prisoner, but for the longest time, you don't know why, and the movie takes too long to get to the real plot (then when it gets there, it's over). The space suits and the makeup effects are outstanding although sometimes when the helmets are not shot from the right angle, they can look slightly silly and too large for the actors' bodies.Supposedly, the stakes are high. We meet a human (great reveal by the way), and he's the last of his kind so he's going to destroy the enemy's home planet. But of course, you never see the destruction of earth or anything that has happened elsewhere, and believe me, a change of scenery would've been nice. No, I didn't want to see a crappy CG planet exploding, but you should tell the story visually. Instead of having another alien bounty hunter *talking* about how bad the other race is, *show* how bad that race is. Plus, the actor they got to play the human isn't convincing enough especially when he delivers a crucial piece of dialog about his personal loss. He doesn't say it with nearly enough emotion, conviction, rage, etc. The alien does a much better job, but you don't find out much about him except he thanks Cortana, which is very rare for his species, and he's smarter than his commander since he cuts a shield out of his ship's wreckage. I said supposedly the stakes are high, because it's always the characters talking about it. They never show it. In fact, they don't show much of anything. The human talks about his family, but you never seen them. When the stakes are first brought up (that this one guy is trying to blow up the alien's home-world), it just seems nuts, because how is he going to do that? And they try to play that off by having the alien laugh at it, but it still doesn't work, and it seems absurd the human would tell him at all.Much of the movie is a cat-and-mouse tracking game between the human and the alien. But again, this grows stale. And there's a chance early on for the human to just kill the last alien hunting him, but he doesn't. You find out later why, and it's smart, but it takes so long to get the answer you're really questioning the quality of the movie. Plus, they really dwell on the guy's opportunity to kill the last alien, and the fact you find out he won't kills a lot of tension. Then near the end, the alien doesn't kill the guy, and that just seems ridiculous since he was going to do it moments earlier when the threat to the alien's planet had ended (and the alien even lies to the human). But then when the threat is back on and the alien has a clear shot, which would end all the danger, he doesn't fire. That makes no sense.The man doesn't really come off like a real human being either. He just seems like a one-dimensional character. He's the last of his kind. He should be so much more passionate. Everything is on the line... if he dies, humanity is wiped out, but he doesn't act like it, and like I said, the film doesn't make you feel the stakes.It has little cool moments like the alien drinking the parasite's blood, the parasite on the human, and the one-scene bounty hunter. Plus, you do kind of like the alien since his commander is such a jerk, but there are so many slow scenes, and you don't have enough of a reason to get invested in the story (the aforementioned commander dies rather quick so there goes some much-needed conflict). They show you a time until extraction screen like 40 times. Okay, not that many, but they show it a lot, and it's not a good ticking clock, because they don't seem concerned about it nor is it like a bomb exploding i.e. a clear imminent threat. The movie just ends up very boring. I was looking forward to this having seen Batman: Dead End, but I was very disappointed.