Overall an average film, CGI is a bit scretchy in certain places but the suspense within the film makes up for it. The ending will leave you wanting just a bit more of an explanation.

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 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.

Well acted, filmed and designed, this film has all the things it needs except one - a good script. The cheapest stage of any film is the script writing, because it takes place independently of all the others and only requires one person and a $300 laptop. That is the stage when the writer should have decided to work out for himself and then tell the audience the answers to questions like:Why can't we kill giant crabs with tanks, drones and aerial gunships?How did they travel through space to get here apparently naked?Why does no-one have any drone footage of them? Who decided to call them The Nonesuch and why?If they are real why are some survivors more scared of the army?If V.A.X. 7 didn't kill himself why is there that blood stain on the wall?When S.U.M. 1 saw V.A.X. 7 in the shadows he must have actually been there because he was recorded on video, which must mean that he'd broken into a maximum security military bunker without being caught by any of the cameras and then escaped again before the lights came back on, which is daft.What were the toxic emissions, human or Nonesuch, and why didn't they kill S.U.M. 1?Why call someone "S.U.M. 1" unless you want them to doubt their own sanity?