This was on Prime Video today and I watched it at 6am while I let the dog out to do his business. I try hard to not watch the movies made for SyFy channel like Ape v Monster and Aquarium of the Dead. But sometimes one sneaks past my defenses. What marks this as a substandard movie is the poor script, the micro-budget sets, and the lack of extras. When this is supposed to be a troop of soldiers or a colony of convicts and civilians, you would expect to see a plethora of extras hired to bulk out the populations. Not so here. Six or seven convicts and a few more in unbelievable death poses. Only one civilian (that I remember) and he was dead.
The CGI reminds me a bit of The Last Starfighter (1984), though it had none of the smoothness of that film. Space ships were herky-jerky and poorly rendered. Pilots in cockpits were so unbelievable I had to laugh.
While the two main characters were easy to look at, they delivered their (poorly written) lines like automatons. Just a side note: I was looking for the name of Amy Weber's Nipple Wrangler in the credits.
Make no mistake, this is a movie typical of the poor product put out by the SyFy channel. I just wish streaming services would label them as such.
In all fairness, though, this movie stands head and shoulders above Robowoman.(2019) with one of the most repulsive actresses I've ever seen, Dawna Lee Heising.
