UK 2016 106m Directed by: James Twyman. Starring: Jon-Paul Gates, Tony Fadil, Steven M. Smith, Cameron Bell, Darren James King, Charlotte Gould, Sammy Johnston, David Shaw, Jonathan Jules, Colette Hughes, Nigel Thijs, Phoebe Delikoura..
Famous self-help Guru, Dr. Carson travels to his new facility with eight young addicts with the aim of helping them through their troubles and integrating them back into society. Unfortunately for them society is about to be dismantled as a military force, not from this world, begins a hostile take-over. Can these youngsters escape the facility and if they do, will it even make a difference?
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The film opens as we see detailed photos of spaceships headed our way that will be here in three months. I have issues with this, but I decided to just go with it instead of discussing light and exposure times. The next thing we see is a group of troubled teens in therapy in a remote location for a six month session. Not too hard to figure out where the aliens are going to land...with most of the movie over. We spend a lot of time building character of troubled teens. If you like a troubled teen drama, this is great, but if you want to see men in rubber alien suits attack people, you must wait.
Normally the reason why you would take so long to build a lot of character and traits is that we would get to know the individual skills of each teen and how together, their diversity would save the planet. Not the case here. They used the latest trend of purple neon light to create something futuristic looking, instead of writing a decent science fiction plot. It appears purple neon has replaced fluorescent green as the true sign of low budget science fiction. They could have created a decent alien subplot but that would have cost money.
Review by Michael Ledo from the Internet Movie Database.