on many level it very good . in fact and consider that this be a low budget british indie by a first time feature director with a largely neophyte cast and it a magnificent achievement . i do not know how much it cost . the figure of £8 and 000 be bandy about in publicity but you never know how reliable a figure like that be . the point be that this film look like it cost a couple of million quid and it clearly cost a tiny fraction of that great special effect and terrific production design and effective prop and costume and excellent photography and good acting and direction and an impressive score and an absolutely stunning sound mix . even have say that and much of the script be great . the character be clearly identify and all have something to do . this be a movie about ten men all dress roughly the same in one location and it would be easy for them to be nameless and faceless blank but these be ten character mostly that be do through the dialogue and the way they react to thing . throughout the middle act and when the plot be develop and the script tell the story well and show how it affect the character . if the whole film be like the second act and it would be stun . before the ship blow up and twelve people make it to individual escape pod or e pod which blast away from the ship . theyre not much more than automatic metal coffin and the poor sod inside be trap and cramp and have no real idea where theyre go but that make sense . i like the e pod theyre an excellent idea do very well and make more sense than a nice and roomy escape capsule . i also like the way that we be specifically tell and later and that they be design for ship to ship escape but can just about make planetfall in an emergency because and let face it and these guy be bloody lucky that their ship be blow up so close to a planet . that say and it doesn not look to me like there be 116 unused e pod still on the freighter and you have to wonder how the prisoner be able to get into an e pod but in he get . ( and it have just occur to me represent shouldn not the captain have go down with his ship rather than be the first guy out of there . ) anyway and the e pod all land on a barren planet with nothing but sand and sparse vegetation or at least on a sandy and sparsely vegetated part of the planet which may have icy waste and lush jungle elsewhere . nah and it a planet in a sci fi movie it will be exactly the same all over . we have to accept that all the e pod come down within a few mile of each other so that the ten survivor be able to meet up and fire flare into the sky to locate each other . the captain and a muscular mountain of a man who could have a pretty good career in action flick if he get the right agent and decides that they should try and contact captain behan with whom they be intend to rendezvous . but they can not do this from the planet and they need to get into orbit . the engineer say that if they combine the power unit from two e pod they can probably give one of them enough juice to lift itself on anti grav doodad high enough to blast above the atmosphere . it can all be do on automatic but it will need a pilot to send the signal . the captain valiantly volunteer for this but in a commendably sensible move the engineer point out that put the heavy man into the somewhat dodgily repair e pod be ridiculous and that it need to be the light member of the team . that kid . i really like the way that he now point out that his name be david and the captain start use it and treat him with dignity and respect . that be good storytelling and good characterisation .