Drift, The |
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UK • 2014 • 101m •
  • Directed by: Darren Scales. • Starring: Jonny Black, Victoria Hopkins, Vin Hawke, Peter Revel-Walsh, David Dobson, Lee Grantina, Andrew Burn, Steve Tittensor, Luke Shahin-Scales, Robert Francis, Nigel Brice, Boris Paul Foot, Matt Davies. • Music by: James Griffiths.   Twenty years after the catastrophic Dark Wave damaged every faster-than-light crystal, leaving thousands of ships stranded and drifting, a small salvage vessel arrives at a spaceship graveyard. But the crew soon discover that not everything on this Drift is dead, and as the objective changes from salvage to survival, it emerges that one crew member has a secret agenda.
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The performances of the actors are not going to win any Oscars but nor were they particularly bad. The captain could have given a bit more but sometimes that is down to direction. I'll say this, I've seen far worse performances in productions with a far bigger budget than this one. The script dialogue was pretty cheesy but I've heard far worse in films with so called established writers. The cannibal adversaries were probably not the way I would have gone but then again at least the writers weren't tempted to go down the zombie route. We don't really find much out about the cannibals other than that's what they are.
The special effects and bad science in a sci-fi film can make or break the movie and again considering the low budget it fares ok, though at times the s-fx put me in mind of 'Space 1999' And I suspect camera technology to improve far more in 100 years from now than the Go-Pro jobs that the crew are using. In fact some of the ship's equipment already looks like it is out of date today let alone 100 years from now. I would have liked to have learned how the star crystals prevented space craft's mass increasing when the ships were travelling at light speed.
So my main complaint is we are not given a lot of information to work with. Some dodgy science and sets.
But is the film worth watching? Definitely yes, enjoyed the film despite my concerns above I would only ask you to judge it on what it manages to achieve with very little finance.
Review by Millhaven_Curse from the Internet Movie Database.
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