Picked this up in a two movie DVD set for a buck or so. Didn't really look promising and as I started to watch the movie I was just glad it didn't cost me more! Low budget may be an excuse, but it's not a very good one. The worst thing about this movie is the writing. I can handle slow paced movies, but this isn't slow paced. Most of the time nothing really happens. Movies never makes me sleep, but this one came pretty close. While the idea in it self might be OK, the writing just doesn't cut it. There are not enough development of characters or plots to make this a good feature film. They just make time pass by all these pictures of the characters doing some walking some chit chat and stuff that don't add anything to the movie. With that said this movie might make a good short film.As for special effects, really there's nothing special about them. They're bad. To be honest, they could have and should have cut the storm thing part from the script. As said before, it don't give the movie anything, it offers no challenge to the characters it's just there to look good. And it don't.Cinematography, however is one of the best things about this movie. It's all over good, with some enjoyable shots. However, the lightning could've been better, especially at night. It looks cheep.Production design, sets, locations and costumes also need some credit. It's not that bad. Rather nice actually compared other things.The acting is OK. For a low budget movie they got OK actors. They say their lines loud and clear, but thats about it. Then again with lack of characters and action what else is there for them to do. Never the less a little more acting wouldn't hurt.All in all this is not the movie you want to spend any kind of money or time on. This is a movie far down on you watch list.

Got this film on DVD cheaply. I figured it was worth the risk of it being a bad film because even bad films have the odd redeeming feature/scene in them. No such luck with this one. I understand from other comments that it was made on a tiny budget, which explains things like the special effects, or lack of them. Even so, this movie would be better named Snore-rora. It was a real effort not to fall asleep, or press the fast forward button on the remote. I kept expecting something to happen to break the monotony of the desert walk, but it didn't. It just went on, and on, and on.I suppose that it succeded in getting across the desperation and feeling of helplessness the characters must have felt in their seemingly interminable trek across the desert. I was certainly feeling pretty desperate and helpless by the end of it.Avoid it all costs.

This is to the reviewer who mentioned that it was low budget and made on credits cards, so please give it its due. Sorry, that doesn't wash. I've seen other movies made on shoestring budgets that managed to be good despite their low budgets. And since most people won't know it was made on a shoestring budget, they only have the finished product to judge, and that seems to be lacking. Heck, Robt. Rodriguez made EL MARIACHI for $7000 (not including the soundtrack that now exists on the video; that was cleaned up by Columbia Pictures when they bought the rights, and spent $100,000 doing it) and look what he did; sometimes it's edited a bit too fast for me in one or two scenes)A movie lives or dies by what's on the screen, not the history behind the making of the movie.

I caught Aurora at the Birmingham Sidewalk film festival. After reading the comments, I couldn't help but say a few things about the film myself. First, Aurora is not for everyone, but as far as independents go, it is a brave and remarkable endeavor. Shot on credit cards in the Southwest with a small cast and crew, one is completely taken away to this bleak and beautifully photographed world. The special effects are okay, the performances, fair to terrific and the story, captivating an moving. One critic noted that the narrative was lifted from the Robert Falcon Scott story of the Antarctic. It is clearly inspired by that tale and the book "South With Scott" by Admiral Sir Edward R.G.R. Evans. The filmmaker is paying homage to Scott and his men! Aurora is a film to see