Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rating: 9/10 (15 July 2014)

When Sci-Fi blends with Horror, it's wonderful. I liked Alien and I liked this, because of the survival plot is just so viscerally appealing. Diesel had some nice lines, and a dollop of self-realization and even a bit of vulnerability when he admits to an error in judgment; he took baby steps towards more sympathetic a character, nice and slow. He could have had them all killed one by one, just to take over of their resources, *well with the exception of Johns who may have given him a moment of struggle* but did not. The effects added a lot of rawness to the film, stark colors and dry sand. I did not quite get how the vehicle came into being, which was an important bit of plot, and having 3 suns to deal with, I had no idea whatsoever how that would play out; these were stumbling blocks, easily disregarded in view of the fascinating character interplay. Fry, Imam, Jack, even the non-English speaking characters I came to care about deeply, the result of excellent storytelling.