Good start, but then it gets ruined

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

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

Blistering performances.

This short film packs candy visuals and prioritizes polished visuals and special effects it seems more like a triple A engine testing trailer more than a short film but even in that tonally and conceptually this movie is amazing.It's palette is groundbreaking in my opinion and if adapted to feature it would show a lot of promise artistically.I personally love Samus as a character and have always thought the long line of metroid media needed continuity and story issues fixed generally for most if not for all of their games and its pretty much the same wall this film hits theirs not much infrastructure for plot or character focus still conceptually brilliant though.

This short is very well made. For an internet movie, it has good effects, cinematography, sound mixing and music. You really do feel like you're watching a movie.It is very much influenced by "Alien", due to the fact that Samus is based on Ripley.It is cool seeing Samus do her moves from the game like turning into a ball. However, the big shoulders don't work. Although I do like the green lights coming out of her suit.However, Jessica is miscast. There isn't really anything Samus-like about her. Nothing heroic about her. She's an okay actress, but Samus wasn't for her.The plot is very meh. Samus goes on a planet, discovers something and goes home again. That's it. Also, she is the only character in this film. It would be nice if Sam Balcomb made another Metroid short with more characters in it.Movies based on video games don't work, but they work as TV shows like Earthworm Jim and Sonic Satam. Even the Mario cartoons were enjoyable, despite their obvious continuity mistakes.I'd like to see a Metroid series be made, maybe for Netflix. Maybe Sam could direct an episode

Someone posted a link to this video on a website and I have to say that even if fans of the Metroid games would love to see a feature about Samus' adventures, they'd certainly not want it to be anything like this!The idea of this short seems to be to set up the rest of the story, leaving us to wonder if a feature is indeed on its way, however, the dull and bland 11 minutes we're presented with is absolutely nothing to be inspired by, and if this does go on to be a feature, I certainly won't expect great things from it.Verdict: if you enjoy Samus and all things Metroid, just stick with the games.