Lo-Fi Sci-Fi indie flick orbiting the uneasy alliance between a young orphaned girl, Cee, and cut-throat gold digger, Ezra, as they seek good fortune on a perilous alien moon.
The sci-fi trappings - rusty space-suits, cranky spaceships etc - are authentically rendered, and the unchartered terrain, a sort of Ewok-free Moon of Endor, breathes with atmosphere thicker than a Frank Herbert Dune doorstop. But they're merely cosmetic ticks papering over a slight tale that would play out exactly the same with buckskins and horses in the wild west.
The story's repetitive narrative and episodic structure quickly reveal the script's shortcomings leaving one with the aftertaste of an all-dressed-up-with-no-place-to-go non-starter.
So PROPSECT could almost be written off as another style-over-content space adventure then? Not quite. Thanks to the performances and to-die-for chemistry of the two lead leads - Sophie Thatcher and the super charismatic Pedro Pascal - writer/directors Christopher Caldwell & Zeek Earl's debut feature star-surfs to safety via muscular character engagement.
Cee and Ezra deserve a better story than this, but despite my reservations, PROSPECT does have a lingering effect and I'd love to see these two astro-cowboys again. Maybe next time?
The sci-fi trappings - rusty space-suits, cranky spaceships etc - are authentically rendered, and the unchartered terrain, a sort of Ewok-free Moon of Endor, breathes with atmosphere thicker than a Frank Herbert Dune doorstop. But they're merely cosmetic ticks papering over a slight tale that would play out exactly the same with buckskins and horses in the wild west.
The story's repetitive narrative and episodic structure quickly reveal the script's shortcomings leaving one with the aftertaste of an all-dressed-up-with-no-place-to-go non-starter.
So PROPSECT could almost be written off as another style-over-content space adventure then? Not quite. Thanks to the performances and to-die-for chemistry of the two lead leads - Sophie Thatcher and the super charismatic Pedro Pascal - writer/directors Christopher Caldwell & Zeek Earl's debut feature star-surfs to safety via muscular character engagement.
Cee and Ezra deserve a better story than this, but despite my reservations, PROSPECT does have a lingering effect and I'd love to see these two astro-cowboys again. Maybe next time?