For a start assume that a planet has been discovered in the not too distant future where people can walk about in their shirt sleeves and there's no problem with oxygen.There's no life there nothing but desert,a lake of poisoned water and rocks.The only building is a recent bunker full of supplies for future visitors to the planet but the trouble is its 400 miles away from where the ship crashed.The moral there is once such a planet IS discovered build more bunkers! The answer to overcrowded prisons is right here-just the place to send all the sex offenders and leave them up there to colonize the place and possibly start breeding as there are a few women of this kind. It doesn't really say what 6 men are supposed to be doing there but whatever it was they are unable to do it because their ship malfunctioned so we don't know whether the original idea was to look for life forms. I kept hoping maybe a big M sign would appear as they must have been hungry trekking 400 miles through sand.Ever tried walking even a mile on sand-its not easy unless its solid and with the sudden desert storms its probably not on this planet! Generally they were pretty nasty characters-one guy had a zapper and killed one of the party as a sort of mercy killing I suppose after he'd developed gangrene- and they were constantly arguing-the leader of the expedition had lied about the distance to the bunker so they had to walk even further.And they had to leave one guy behind as he'd broken his leg! Pity there was no cannibalism but not even any vultures around!Now that would have made this movie worth 10! The lack of food and water was an unnecessary addition to the story seeing as astronauts carry capsules and as this is set in the next century the technology should have advanced even further-at least to an endless supply of capsules Anyway they finally reach the bunker and thats where the movie ended just like that! Very disappointing-we never got to see them travelling back in the land rovers but if you work it out 400 miles at the speed of 4 miles an hour and thats only in the day as well-is a mighty long time. At least the ship should have been equipped with sand yachts!
