Clearly filmed on a budget of about what my car is worth, a large portion of that budget was evidently spent very effectively on designing and realising the monsters encountered in the latter part of the film.
They are imaginative, and well executed, and for that reason alone I highly recommend it. As some have commented in the message boards, anyone that has played many first person shooter games will recognise the influences clearly, without naming names...
The film other than that is fairly what you would expect. It doesn't do anything exceptionally wrong, though the characterisation is scanty at best. There are some wonderful black comedy moments scattered in there. Look out for the moment when an attempt to remove the helmet from a soldier with a head injury, for example.
They are imaginative, and well executed, and for that reason alone I highly recommend it. As some have commented in the message boards, anyone that has played many first person shooter games will recognise the influences clearly, without naming names...
The film other than that is fairly what you would expect. It doesn't do anything exceptionally wrong, though the characterisation is scanty at best. There are some wonderful black comedy moments scattered in there. Look out for the moment when an attempt to remove the helmet from a soldier with a head injury, for example.