good film

Rating: 9/10 (25 April 2015)

I did quite enjoy this film. It's different to the generic Hollywood movie in many respects. There are no American good guys saving the entire world from the arab terrorists or perfect RP English speaking criminal mastermind in this film. Instead the main character is actually South African, he is not a clear hero but just a normal and very flawed human, capable of treating others very inhumanely. The film shows all humans in a negative light and very realistically so. It really does escape from this Hollywood "hero" idea and bring reality of how people would really act in situations to the screen. It is kind of eye opening and believable in how we could possibly treat another intelligent species. The film is shot in a very believable way also, using a lot of hand-held camera shots, adding to the realism, it's kind of like the blair witch but filmed more as if reporters are actually filming the main character (trust me it really works well). The action likewise is fairly gritty and realistic and there are some cool alien weapons and technology to be seen! It is the kind of action where 1 person getting killed has a lot of impact due to the gritty realism, as opposed to action films where hundreds of people get shot but you don't really care because they're just generic henchmen there to be shot in the hundreds in a boring fashion haha.