EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

jmthinker This is a thematic film with fairly cardboard appearance but that is acted into the general scheme of things in a positive fashion. It has tongue in cheek humour all the way. I liked it a lot. A chaotic situation is occurring in space and little is known about why this is all going on from any outside sets or characters. However it all builds up the details to allow the plot to become very serious as a story. Definitely a stage on screen but I would say it passed that test admirably though will challenge you beyond forgiveness if you need sfx of a precise nature. I didn't really figure on the opposing sides being easy to understand, the zombies being zombies, extra creatures too. I think there was pandemonium and really I recommend to watch it, what else would there be if you were there.

TheLittleSongbird Of the seven low-budget movies seen in the past six weeks(the previous six being Aliens vs Avatars, The Amazing Bulk, Thunderstorm: The Return of Thor, Captain Battle: Legacy War, Bonesetter and Star Quest: The Odyssey) Earthkiller, aka Total Retribution, was the best of them. It does have one redeeming quality which was that the idea was good, which the previous six did not have. That said, that is not saying very much because Earthkiller is still a terrible movie that doesn't do its concept any justice, one of those movies that starts off bad, not in a long time have I seen an opening scene this bizarre, and gets even worse as it wears on.Earthkiller is very poorly made, almost like a failed student project, visually the best thing is the camera work, while it still often is dizzying there are glimpses of effort. Which is more than can be said for the lighting, which is at times too garish and others too dark(never appropriate), the cheap-looking sets which includes the most fake-looking space station you'll find anywhere in a movie and worst of all the truly appalling special effects, even the worst of SyFy and The Asylum have special effects as bad as here and they are on par with those of the aforementioned six movies. Earthkiller even incorporates blood and goes well overboard using it, even worse is that the blood doesn't even look like blood, instead looking like tomato ketchup that had been mixed with water.The dialogue for Earthkiller is so awkward it'd be hard to stifle any laughter as well as cheese ridden, while the story is incredibly padded with nowhere near enough to sustain nearly an hour and a half and doesn't even try to make sense, there's nothing remotely clever or original about it with the movie ending on a confused note. The sound has a muddied distant quality where sometimes you have to strain for some of the dialogue and line delivery. The direction is flat, the characters are literally over-familiar walking clichés with no personality(they are actually annoying and the movie has the sense of forgetting to actually develop them) and the acting is practically non-existent. To conclude, a complete turkey despite having a good idea, a shame. 2/10 Bethany Cox

unbrokenmetal Female android Helen wakes up without memory on a space station near Earth. Several enemies fight over the possession of a space cannon powerful enough to destroy the planet. Mind you, it's already quite original to tell the movie from the point of view of an android who wants to find out why her memories were erased and doesn't trust any of the humans - instead of introducing a human hero. But it gets even better, because we don't get the same old story about a big bang that must be stopped at the last second. Instead we are told the catastrophe is basically inevitable, but the android is thrown 200 years back into the past to prevent it from happening AGAIN. 'Earthkiller' is the rare case of a C movie with a highly original script that does not just rip off current blockbusters. Unfortunately it is let down by very poor technical side: the ridiculous make-up of the 'undead', the cheaply animated speedy robot enemy things, generally poor design any TV series of the 1970s would be ashamed of (but produced in 2011). Believe it or not, the German DVD title of 'Earthkiller' translates as 'Blade Runner 2 - The Decision'! An audacity, to say the least. Yet in opposite to all other reviewers so far, I wouldn't want to bash it simply for the lack of budget, but point out that a good story was provided, also the android is played very well, like a being just not quite human, by Robin Kurtz.

movieman_kev Robin Kurtz stars as Helen, a woman who wakes up naked in a space station orbiting Earth about being indisposed for the previous 200 years. Having no idea of who see is or what's happening, she spends the remaining movie time trying to get out of the ship while fighting other robots, humans as well as horribly CGI'd monsters.I found this to be an amateurish mish-mash of a handful of sci-fi clichés that wears out its welcome rather quickly. It's no surprise to me in the least that the same person responsible for this travesty was also the one who 'graced' us with 'Battle New York: Day 2' Both of which are available on Streaming Netflix in case you're feeling especially masochistic .