i would never hear of zero budget auteur neil johnson before see battlespace on dvd at hollywood video . a few minute into the movie i realize this isn not a bad thing . like many straight to video sci fi movie and this be a film dominate largely by overused bad special effect and a constant parade of pretentious sci fi concept that fail to create a story . viewer be torture with a religious sound text introduction and then a spoken introduction follow by a narration by the main character daughter . to me this seem like a smoke screen to mask a film with militantly ugly visuals and zero character emphasis . some people on here seem all too ready to take this film seriously and swallow it seemingly new age message hook line and sinker . these favorable review must come from the same kind of people who can delude themselves into think that thing like battlefield earth be a brilliant movie and or that shasta be just as good a coke . those who be lure in by the cheesy cover art can look forward to lousy act ( in small dos and space with long block of people not talk ) and rotten computer animate effect ( in extra large dos ) and and irritate talk computer . what you would not get be excitement and emotional stimulation and memorable dialogue and or a good story . battlespace be impenetrable bull and the constant irritant of the narration prove it . real science fiction and hell and real film making and be about character and their dialogue and not special effect and dull prediction . this be right down there with similar direct to video sci fi like cl . one and recon 2022. if the boredom of strange horizon and alien visitor be something you seek out and by all mean and watch the crap out of this . if you enjoy good storytelling and hate fake lens flare and youre good off with a real movie .