Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child (2017)

Best movie of this year hands down!

The first must-see film of the year.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Though it could have a better script, the plot is quite interesting and the characters are likeable. The CGI and special effects are both average. Overall a good movie to ease your mind off the unending Marvel Superheroes Marathon that is currently flooding Hollywood.

Another reviewer put it well. This is a B movie that doesn't realize it's a B movie. There is a sense of quality sitting under the surface throughout the entire film, like there is a pretty good movie trying to get out.The camera work is adequate, and sometimes even manages to push into the territory of good. The set pieces, while obviously budget, are quite well done, as are the props.The monsters kind of fall on the goofy side, both in appearance as well as design and concept. Their existence really doesn't make much sense even within the story being told. The ability to "self replicate" is a feature that would have never been incorporated, and since the story seems to imply that they were engineered by "evil company name here", this feature feels more like a tacked on way to push the plot. A "Oh crap, how does he become a monster at the end?" type of thing.The out of order scenes don't really work within the pacing of the story and feels like something done after the fact, rather than as part of the writing. Overall the editing feels pretty bog standard "I learned Adobe Premiere!" and lack any sense of artistry.I will say that the ending "twist" I did not see coming, though that could as well be simply because the monsters and their transformation is never developed. They are portrayed as basically mindless killing machines, with the exception for the flashes of the one that kills the warden, however this does not establish that they have any level of intelligence that would make the ending make sense.The acting is okay, though some of the dialog is a bit stilted at times. Whether this is due to the writing, direction or acting, I am not entirely sure.At the end of the day, I get the impression that this film was done by someone who knew how to do everything, but lacked a real understanding of WHY to do everything. It's like they learned everything from film making for dummies, or from YouTube tutorials, and have only a grasp of the technical aspects, and none of the art. This ultimately makes the film feel very pain by numbers. Everything is there, but nothing feels like it really matters to the story.

I watched this at home on DVD from my public library, my wife skipped.I was a bit concerned by the somewhat low IMDb rating for this movie but had hopes based on the brief description. I have always been a Sci-Fi fan, especially for stories set in the future and involving space travel. After watching it the rating seems about right, maybe even a bit high.The story starts good showing an 11-yr-old girl in a space suit in a large mine cavern. She is the child, she is on Osiris, she will need to be rescued. The story ends with her being rescued but the vast middle, even though it is barely over 90 minutes, seems long because it is mostly uninteresting. We see a futuristic bus traveling through wasteland. We see fights in a prison. We see rough-looking people getting high in a bar and threatening others. So when the last scenes came my mind had pretty much turned itself off to the story. I watched the DVD extras, I was impressed by the team that is responsible for coming up with the story and filming it in Australia, their intentions were admirable but they just were not able to put together something that is really good and entertaining. Just mediocre.

I have no idea what the other people are complaining about. I was going to watch this expecting this to be another third rate sci-movie with teenagers acting tough, but this turned out to be a well acted movie with an OK plot instead.Also, some monster effects were a bit cheap but I had no issue with majority of CGI in the movie. Not sure why anyone would think it "ALL LOOKS SO FAKE"? Get an eye checkup?Sure the clichéd plot isn't anything Oscar-worthy, but then, so isn't the plot for new Star Wars movies being pumped out and over-hyped by paid reviewers and fanboys.Watch this, ignore the negative reviews. Considering I watched it for lulz thinking, it was a another cheap terrible sci-fi movie, I enjoyed it.I would've rated 6/10 but rating it 8/10 cause this movie is being downvoted by sci-fi snobs.