This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Excellent, a Must See

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

I'll keep it short, the poster was more exciting than the film

This is not a sci-fi action film. It is more a slowpaced sci-fi mystery. We follow a young solider as he does a 100 day duty in a defence tower, protecting the inhabitants of an underground city. After aliens attacked and killed most of humanity, they now live in that city (maybe others like it?).The action is slow paced but actually it was a nice departure from the Marvel/DC/JJ Abrums/Michael Bay scifi action-extraordinaire-super-mega-explosions. It follows the young man "S.U.M.1", and his mental health, who is totally isolated from his world aside from his commanding officer and one guy who comes to repair stuff. He starts to question the reason he is there as he finds evidence what he has been told may or may not be true. With a reasonable, if a little predictable, twist at the end.Iwan is fantastic to watch - not to mention some may like the nude scenes (sorry nothing more then buttocks on display!). His portrayal of the character felt spot on.I guess the main things that really let this movie down are a couple of things brought up but not really explained. One are his dreams, seemed that could have been used for a greater reveal but just 'happened' and then moved on. There is an indication he may be different to the others - a physical change also happens - but again no real explanation as to what this means.Overall I think this movie really needed some world setting. You are not given any real idea on what happened, why it happened or any context as to why these soldiers need to spend only 100 days and why they are on their own, rather than a couple or more. Although it is alluded to there used to be 6 at a time.Despite that, I didn't find it as awful as its 3 point something rating would suggest.

I have enjoyed this movie. I got to watch it not expecting anything from it - in fact, I came across it by chance, having never heard of it before. Maybe that was the key in appreciating it (by not setting expectations too high). Anyway, you need to like psychological, slow-paced, rather contemplative pieces of work to feel at ease watching this one. True, action is sometimes redundant and the pace could have been a bit faster, but overall, this film takes you to the point where you need to make up your own mind: is the soldier actually getting mad, or is the threat real? The ending, of course, gives the answer. But I have liked the suspense, not knowing which one is the right one - although plenty of clues are provided regularly if you watch carefully. Yeah, the ending's really good, if not too short. Overall, the film can not be ranked among cheap movies. Although it was probably shot on a shoestring budget, that doesn't show. But to enjoy it, the trick is that you really need to be patient, which may turn off a number of viewers.

I think this is one of those movies that is good if you like the character / actor playing it. If you don't enjoy them after the first 5 mins, it won't work, and you can safely skip it.Story-wise it is something that echoes other movies, the basic ingredients are quite similar. It is also obvious that they had a pretty tight budget, but the sets hold up well enough to not look cheap.Since it lacks the elements that most people appreciate about other movies, mainly drama, social stuff, explosions, pointless sex scenes, cars, it will not appear to mainstream viewers.The ending surprised me (in a positive sense), not what I was expecting.