Every filmmaker has to start somewhere, right? Newb writer and director Tom Paton put together a decent enough B-grade low budget sci-fi, but of course it wasn't perfect. The cinematography was excellent, especially the earth scenes. Acting was believable for the most part, and that little stick-man assistant was adorable... very cool concept. The S/Vfx were actually decent for a B-grade non-Hollywood flick, with the exception of the clearly low budget spaceship setting. The pacing was slow and the film felt very long with dragged out scenes, for a story that had more filler than substance. There were many plot and technical issues in the writing. The directing was much better on earth than in the spaceship. Overall, I didn't once feel the need to groan and give up watching. It kept me interested right until the end. It's a solid 6/10 from me.
32 Reviews
it is alright
talis-briedis-79-54108313 August 2020
Low budget, but they did fairly good fx. Some action parts seemed cheesy. Overall, the story was pretty good. Production was not bad. Unlike many other low budget flicks, I did not feel my time was wasted watching this.
Pretty Good Flick!
HarrySmooth6 December 2020
Not a Horrible movie, always liked Moyer in "True Blood" so I thought I would give this one a try. I was pretty impressed right off the bat with the effects... The spaceships looked really good, and "Edison"'was a comic relief as well.
Nice to see Casper back in Space again too.
I really enjoyed this movie,
If you like Deep Space Flicks as much as I do, you'll probably like this, but if your a "Couch Critic" well, need I say more! LOL
Could have been so much better
tommaguzzi2 February 2021
A low budget scifi which borrows some ideas from the expanse. The 2 main characters are equally unlikeable and constantly make stupid decisions, the villan looks too much like the male lead and it was hard to tell who was who during the fight scenes. The acting was average at best, the sets were probably borrowed from somewhere else but cgi was fairly good. When the best character is an animated stick man there is a problem. All in all 3 stars mainly for the cgi.
Budget SC FI
seansez-1607311 August 2020
Not a bad effort, but still an effort.
fad-3879819 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The story meanders, too much 'tell' and not enough 'show', especially from the annoying avatar.
The ending does not justify the amount of effort the viewer has to put in, every twist and pinnacle is contrived, the characters two-dimensional and dialogue weak.
I can only assume the 'headline' star needed some quick cash? And he needs to work on his accent(s).
The whole thing comes across as a poor pilot for a TV show, and not a good TV show either.
The ending does not justify the amount of effort the viewer has to put in, every twist and pinnacle is contrived, the characters two-dimensional and dialogue weak.
I can only assume the 'headline' star needed some quick cash? And he needs to work on his accent(s).
The whole thing comes across as a poor pilot for a TV show, and not a good TV show either.
Nonsense
bjvom17 November 2020
Warning: Spoilers
So, you manage to escape a dying earth and luck onto a space ship with a bunch of dead crew members, one frozen crew member and one homicidal crew member who you manage to knock out...repeatedly, and who then comes after you again...repeatedly, because you left her alive...repeatedly. Yeah. This all makes perfect sense.
Cheap doesn't mean foolish, but in this case....
apollosdei16 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
In this case you have low budget and unintelligent plot, plus many things that don't make sense given the sci-fi premises. If you want to wade the waters of space sci-fi you can at least have an intelligent plot (not one that seems written by a 14 y.o. who also has no idea how physics work). New sci-fin fans are way more informed and demanding than in the past, that's why this is unforgivable. Some parts are so bad you pity the actors (by the way, this movie has one of the worst forced CPR's scenes you will find in the world of cinema, so trite and overused). The only thing they avoided (just by a hair) is making the male and female protagonist fall in love but only because there was no enough time or because she is one of those new woke female characters who is physically as strong or stronger than men and that would be offensive to some people).
Good story Low budget
scrat24211 August 2020
You are both about to die
nogodnomasters9 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The Earth has a global freeze. A wormhole device appears in orbit that will transport ships to a habitable planet called Rhea. Over time the folks who live there don't want anymore refugees and blame them for everything that goes wrong. Bran (Stephen Moyer) who we get to know through flashbacks is attempting to make it to Rhea. Circumstances place him on a Rhean cargo ship with a dead crew and Ohsha (Tala Gouveia ) the lone survivor trying to kill him.
The story's theme is the US immigration policy and how they are demonized by our current government. The theme didn't hit a home run in how it was presented in a film with just two main characters on a ship for 90 minutes. High boredom factor. Joystick scene could have been cut. I liked the AI. Interesting ending. Too bad the rest of the feature lacked creativity.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity
The story's theme is the US immigration policy and how they are demonized by our current government. The theme didn't hit a home run in how it was presented in a film with just two main characters on a ship for 90 minutes. High boredom factor. Joystick scene could have been cut. I liked the AI. Interesting ending. Too bad the rest of the feature lacked creativity.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity
Heartfelt Sci-Fi
MovieL0ver2316 October 2020
I really enjoyed this film especially the scenes on earth. Parts of the film really pulled at my heartstrings (quite a few tears). The direction was great as was the cinematography. And I adored Edison. Yes, it is low-budget but creative people still need to be making stuff even without Hollywood big budgets.
response for max_lucas on windy space
dlbott13 August 2020
Actually there is wind in space. it is just not the kind you are used to. cosmic wind and yes a kind of wind created by your movement and speed through space. There is incredible cosmic winds in space, harder and faster than anything you have felt on earth. They are moving at thousands of miles an hour. Some times they have different forms of cosmic dust and particles with them as well as radiation. So, to say windy in space, why yes it is...
The astronauts on the moon were hit with wind in space and what came with it were tiny cosmic specs that actually flashed in their rhetna's as flashes of light.
For the move, no not bad for a time when we are starved for anything half decent. So yea, not that bad... give it a whirl....
For the move, no not bad for a time when we are starved for anything half decent. So yea, not that bad... give it a whirl....
Dreadful and Boring!
grahammwiles11 August 2020
What a dismal attempt at a sci-fi film. The concept had great potential, however, the follow through of bringing the story to life completely failed.
Limited special effects, only 8 cast members, stiff acting, awful dialogue and limited sets make this film a total disaster.
The fact that this film is released on the cinema circuit baffles the brain.
Avoid the entire ordeal. Not worth your time or money. The entire project is simply irritating.
1 star because I have to. Dreadful, Boring and Stupid!
Limited special effects, only 8 cast members, stiff acting, awful dialogue and limited sets make this film a total disaster.
The fact that this film is released on the cinema circuit baffles the brain.
Avoid the entire ordeal. Not worth your time or money. The entire project is simply irritating.
1 star because I have to. Dreadful, Boring and Stupid!
A movie with just 2 actors
serban_dragos-1766627 August 2020
why? why does the stick man hologram have a face and a back of the head....
orcinusj14 August 2020
..... does not bode well for the remaining hour and thirty-four mins (also and this is only for content and word count - go Lando Norris at the grand prix this weekend - f1 rules! come on my fellow Americans, catch the fever! it's miles better than any other sport and makes Nascar look as lame as it is)
Very WINDY in space?
Max_Lucas12 August 2020
The show isn't all that bad. Better than anything Asylum puts out (but that's not saying much). I just feel it was a bad choice to use WIND during the action shots. Maybe if there was a port open and they were venting out. But it wasn't. First windy scene was due to thrust force? 2nd windy scene was a sling shot around an object. Yes gravity and g-force would be an issue, but would not cause wind. I'm not going to select this as a spoiler. Because it's not giving anything away about the plot or story. More of a GOOF.
6 for effort
andyonmob11 August 2020
Felt like it was a bad 70s UK TV Movie
imcaufieldholt7 November 2020
I got bored. I had to fast forward to the end, just to see what happens.
I can forgive low budgets, but I cannot forgive poor writing.
First, the handheld AI stickman, was grating, who would create an AI with attitude? If Alexa behaved like that it would be in the bin. But I suppose it is edgy and exciting....(sarcasm)
Second, The 30 minutes I watched consisted of meeting a sole survivor woman on a spaceship, whose only role was to be angry and fight badly. I didn't have enough information to care about her character. As with many badly written scripts this could have been handled with some basic dialogue.. "Why are you on my spaceship?"... not "oh, i'm going to fight you now for no reason..."
At no point did any of the characters behave like normal adults, more like spoiled children who have just finished acting school.
The drawn out fight scenes had no impact and felt like I was watching an episode on Space 1999. Ie not convincing
Even after forwarding to the last 5 minutes, the finale did not make me care to go back and watch the rest.
I had to purge this from my memory by writing a review followed by watching a sci-fi movie with a good script.
Space but not the way we know it
Stanlee10718 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I didn't have any expectations for this film & watched it with an opened mind.
This is a surprising gem with a few characters that have genuine chemistry & the banter between them just seem so natural between Bran (Stephen Moyer) & Ohsha (Taka Gouveia) & A.I Edison (Mike Beckingham). The flashback scenes bring great gravitas to Bran's character which the writers and director have expectly managed to capture in an organic way. His daughter Riley (Emily Haigh) has a short role but made the most of her limited time.
This is a sci-fi film that borrows from the genre where humanity must leave earth to find another planet on which to live. However, things go awry & they are lost in space until Bran finds & boards a big space ship. It is definitely worth a watch!
This is a surprising gem with a few characters that have genuine chemistry & the banter between them just seem so natural between Bran (Stephen Moyer) & Ohsha (Taka Gouveia) & A.I Edison (Mike Beckingham). The flashback scenes bring great gravitas to Bran's character which the writers and director have expectly managed to capture in an organic way. His daughter Riley (Emily Haigh) has a short role but made the most of her limited time.
This is a sci-fi film that borrows from the genre where humanity must leave earth to find another planet on which to live. However, things go awry & they are lost in space until Bran finds & boards a big space ship. It is definitely worth a watch!
I liked it G-Lock; I think not bad
carlos51217 August 2020
After watching G-Lock I'd like to say that i liked it, enjoyed it and think it is quite acceptable and worth the ticket fee.
The plot is alright, same as the acting. Probably because i love Space, futuristic movies.
In fact, it is our destiny (destiny of mankind) to find other planets to live as our mother Earth one day in the future would not be able to sustain life no more.
That will take many many many centuries. But over population, the destruction of the environment, diseases and our bad DNA of always wanting to wage war against each other will prompt migration to another planet, another "Rhea."
So, as we can see, the story, with its imperfections, it is quite possible. in fact, it is inevitable. We are going there. We will not see it. But the descendants of our descendants will.
I liked G-Lock, hope you'd like it too
The plot is alright, same as the acting. Probably because i love Space, futuristic movies.
In fact, it is our destiny (destiny of mankind) to find other planets to live as our mother Earth one day in the future would not be able to sustain life no more.
That will take many many many centuries. But over population, the destruction of the environment, diseases and our bad DNA of always wanting to wage war against each other will prompt migration to another planet, another "Rhea."
So, as we can see, the story, with its imperfections, it is quite possible. in fact, it is inevitable. We are going there. We will not see it. But the descendants of our descendants will.
I liked G-Lock, hope you'd like it too
Stupid film ever
myhailka27 September 2020
Worst edition in... like ever?
gboado28 February 2021
Several scenes of the movie seem to be incomplete. Either the script is rubbish or the edition cut the wrong parts. Even if the parts missing aren't mandatory to understand the plot, they are part of the storytelling.
Heavily flawed science and story continuity
RodMartinJr8 February 2021
Difference in rate of time passage has no basis in fact or science. This flaw is glossed over as if it doesn't defy credulity; but it does. At the very least, they could've mentioned the fact that this anomaly was an unsolved mystery, instead of a fact to be accepted at face value. This could've been woven into the dialogue without making it stick out too much.
One reviewer added "Ice Age" as a flaw in this tiny, modern period of global warming, forgetting that we current live in an Ice Age, and that the scientific climate flaw of the 1970s was that the trend was linear, just like the scientific climate flaw of the 1990s; climate ALWAYS changes and it is never linear. Climate changes in cycles -- up and down. And correlation studies show that CO2 DOES **NOT** DRIVE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE.
The accelerated cooling trend of the last 3,000 years, plus the current Grand Solar Minimum, are both consistent with increased cooling. This cooling problem is potentially made worse by the Warming Alarmists' desire to cool the planet, as former CIA Director John Brennan said, "like volcanoes do." And that's just what psychopath Bill Gates and his fellow nut jobs at Harvard are planning to do; destroy the ability to grow crops with colder oceans! Talk about story flaws; that is a real-life boner of a flaw.
Bottom line on the so-called "Ice Age flaw" is that this is NOT a flaw, at all, but one of the truly accurate parts of this otherwise flawed film.
When fighting an opponent, to knock them down and then simply walk away, without first securing the enemy, is stupidity of the worst kind. The character, Bran (protagonist), did this several times. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Lazy writing!
In navigation, waiting until the last fraction of a second is nonsense. The earlier a course maneuver is taken the less abrupt it has to be; the less energy that is required; and the smaller the angle of deviation needs to be. The dumb script called for waiting until the last moment before jerking at maximum lateral deviation to avoid collision. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
After a deadly fight with someone truly evil, the main Rhean (Ohsha) forgets to tie up the enemy. That the two main characters did the SAME bone-headed mistake only reflects poorly on the writer. Dumb! More lazy writing. I understand that the enemy is needed for later scenes, but achieving that need with laziness doesn't work.
Main Rhean (Ohsha) makes it clear at first that she hates and does not trust Earthers. But then, she admits that her parents trusted Earthers and attempted to help them. Groan! And then she admits that the government is responsible for poisoning their minds against Earthers. Squishy, slippery foundation for the character's motivation. Dumb!
At G-7, Bran can move around at all? Say he has an Earth body weight of 100 kg, that'd be 700 kg he's lugging around. Not at all likely. Lifting external weight, the Olympic record for 109 kg weight class for clean & jerk is 240 kg. Here, the body's total weight is nearly three times that record. Imagine trying to lift your head which normally weighs, at 1-g, about 5 kg, but at 7-g's, about 35 kg (nearly 80 pounds). I suspect that this would break the person's unsupported neck.
Art continuity in this film sucks. Showing the ringed planet with light coming from the side, but the planet's primary ("sun") in the background is illogical at best. Big artist's mistake! Or, if that orangish star is the system's secondary, the planet does not show any reflection of its light. Cool artwork poorly conceived.
On the plus side, the acting was better than average, and excellent in some places. Dialogue was fair to good. Special effects were not that great, but I'd much rather spend more on getting the story right than fluffing up the movie with empty effects.
Set design was moderately weak. In one scene, a large vent had bright light coming from the other side. I can't imagine why an air vent would be expending so much energy to brighten an air duct which remained beyond view.
A few careful adjustments could have made this far more enjoyable than it was. The additional costs would have been minimal, and could have garnered an extra 3-4 points from that alone, from this not-so-humble critic.
One reviewer added "Ice Age" as a flaw in this tiny, modern period of global warming, forgetting that we current live in an Ice Age, and that the scientific climate flaw of the 1970s was that the trend was linear, just like the scientific climate flaw of the 1990s; climate ALWAYS changes and it is never linear. Climate changes in cycles -- up and down. And correlation studies show that CO2 DOES **NOT** DRIVE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE.
The accelerated cooling trend of the last 3,000 years, plus the current Grand Solar Minimum, are both consistent with increased cooling. This cooling problem is potentially made worse by the Warming Alarmists' desire to cool the planet, as former CIA Director John Brennan said, "like volcanoes do." And that's just what psychopath Bill Gates and his fellow nut jobs at Harvard are planning to do; destroy the ability to grow crops with colder oceans! Talk about story flaws; that is a real-life boner of a flaw.
Bottom line on the so-called "Ice Age flaw" is that this is NOT a flaw, at all, but one of the truly accurate parts of this otherwise flawed film.
When fighting an opponent, to knock them down and then simply walk away, without first securing the enemy, is stupidity of the worst kind. The character, Bran (protagonist), did this several times. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Lazy writing!
In navigation, waiting until the last fraction of a second is nonsense. The earlier a course maneuver is taken the less abrupt it has to be; the less energy that is required; and the smaller the angle of deviation needs to be. The dumb script called for waiting until the last moment before jerking at maximum lateral deviation to avoid collision. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
After a deadly fight with someone truly evil, the main Rhean (Ohsha) forgets to tie up the enemy. That the two main characters did the SAME bone-headed mistake only reflects poorly on the writer. Dumb! More lazy writing. I understand that the enemy is needed for later scenes, but achieving that need with laziness doesn't work.
Main Rhean (Ohsha) makes it clear at first that she hates and does not trust Earthers. But then, she admits that her parents trusted Earthers and attempted to help them. Groan! And then she admits that the government is responsible for poisoning their minds against Earthers. Squishy, slippery foundation for the character's motivation. Dumb!
At G-7, Bran can move around at all? Say he has an Earth body weight of 100 kg, that'd be 700 kg he's lugging around. Not at all likely. Lifting external weight, the Olympic record for 109 kg weight class for clean & jerk is 240 kg. Here, the body's total weight is nearly three times that record. Imagine trying to lift your head which normally weighs, at 1-g, about 5 kg, but at 7-g's, about 35 kg (nearly 80 pounds). I suspect that this would break the person's unsupported neck.
Art continuity in this film sucks. Showing the ringed planet with light coming from the side, but the planet's primary ("sun") in the background is illogical at best. Big artist's mistake! Or, if that orangish star is the system's secondary, the planet does not show any reflection of its light. Cool artwork poorly conceived.
On the plus side, the acting was better than average, and excellent in some places. Dialogue was fair to good. Special effects were not that great, but I'd much rather spend more on getting the story right than fluffing up the movie with empty effects.
Set design was moderately weak. In one scene, a large vent had bright light coming from the other side. I can't imagine why an air vent would be expending so much energy to brighten an air duct which remained beyond view.
A few careful adjustments could have made this far more enjoyable than it was. The additional costs would have been minimal, and could have garnered an extra 3-4 points from that alone, from this not-so-humble critic.
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