Prospect (2018)

Prospect: Directed by Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl. With Sophie Thatcher, Jay Duplass, Pedro Pascal, Luke Pitzrick. A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They’ve secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon’s toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive. Forced to contend not only with the forest’s other ruthless inhabitants, but with her own father’s greed-addled judgment, the girl finds she must carve her own path to escape.

“Modern science fiction films are, mostly, not really science fiction at all. Most of it is really space-fantasy, with laser cannons, explosions, space craft zipping around, fantastic monsters/aliens, etc. None of that is found in u0026quot;Prospect.u0026quot; This film is grounded in a gritty reality that is extremely believable, more so than in any science fiction film I can remember seeing. In the novel world, stories that stick to some semblance of known scientific fact are known as u0026quot;hardu0026quot; sci-fi. Now, to be fair, there isnu0026#39;t a lot of science on display in u0026quot;Prospectu0026quot; – itu0026#39;s mostly action, but I will take what I can get! In case you canu0026#39;t tell, Iu0026#39;ve very much in favour of there being more films like this out there.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI very grudgingly rate this a 7 instead of an 8 or higher mostly for technical / production reasons, that are perhaps in turn due to budget compromises. Special effects, music, and perhaps a bit of the acting was a little b-movie at times. But I quickly got over it and was sucked into the story.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAlso Star Wars writers take note: the main female character u0026quot;Ceeu0026quot; is someone that the audience really roots for by the end of the film. Why? Because instead of being all knowing and all powerful right from the start, her character develops. Some of the characterization was a little lean, and I felt another 10 minutes of screen time devoted to fleshing out the father would have really helped the film, but these are minor nitpicks. Give us more films like this, please!”