I watched this without any pretense. My main desire was to watch a sfi-fi movie that didn't require too much investment while I wrapped up a little work and this was actually a good choice.

I thought some of the acting was good. The lead guy in particular I thought did a great job. The story itself is pretty straight-forward and that was a nice change of pace. I feel like sometimes movies hide behind a complicated plot, time travel, and some gotcha camera work and it distracts from the film. This was not like that. Straight to the point and ready to go. No lulls. Just a movie.

After I got it going, I took a peek to try and find the budget and there wasn't any information out there. Pretty good photography and CGI for a modern B-movie. (I hope that's not insulting to the team that made it!)

I wouldn't watch it again but I enjoyed it.

I'm not even sure why I watched this. I was spending time with my folks and they decided on this, because the trailer admittedly looked inciting. But due to it's very unclear focus, any emotion the film tries to power, falls short because of lack of development between most of the leads. There's an entire subplot somewhere in the second act involving the workforce prison on this planet, you know "world building," but nothing it dredges through helps the characters become more dynamic. It's filler for the sake of entertainment. There's a fight in the mess hall, the captive monsters are let loose in an escape scene, but as I was watching, I was like, "Why am I watching this?" The entire focus of this story is this dad trying to save his daughter as the government is launching a deadly virus to wipe out this planet's population. Why am I watching unrelated characters do stuff that have little impact on the central character? It does this multiple times. Oh, the mains go buy weapons from this arm dealer. Let's give the arms dealer a five minute shoot-out scene that literally does nothing for the story. Some people say movies can be cut down to be shorter, and most I disagree with, but here, you literally could cut out over a half hour of material. The focus is so off, that when the emotional climax (and sacrifice) happens, I'm left more numb than bawling my eyes out, like I'm sure they wanted me to. There's a little something from every science fiction movie ever done here, just not as good. Oh well.