Solis

Solis. This movie covers old ground in a new way. You can't help but feel for Holloway's desperation as his life pod hurtles thru space towards the sun. From the outset Holloway gives off an air of brashness but that literally dissolves as his plight becomes all too clear to him. I found this movie to be a real 'slow burn' as the story progresses and grips with the voice of Alice Lowe being the glimmer of hope that underlines the despondency felt. Yes this is low budget but the production values are very high and give that it's sci-fi, the story is so very 'human' that it negates the need for CGI on a blockbuster scale as that would distract from the narrative. Solis. Well worth watching!

Admittedly, I had no expectations to this movie and didn't even know what it was about. I saw that Steven Ogg was in it and thus decided to watch it. Well, the fact that it was a Sci-Fi movie also helped to sweeten the deal. Right, well this movie was definitely different, I will say that much. It deviates from your everyday average movie in terms of it essentially being you following a single man - and his dead comrade - in a small space capsule as he is flung helplessly through space, heading straight for the sun. He is in radio contact with a woman whom is on her way to help him. And that is essentially the scope of the entire movie and the entire cast. The special effects in "Solis" were good, and the storyline was actually interesting enough in concept, but it just wore a bit thin towards the end. I am not saying that this is a boring movie, because it was entertaining enough. But it is hardly the kind of movie that you will watch more than once. Steven Ogg actually carries the movie phenomenally well with his solo on-screen performance, and he makes it worth sitting through the movie to the very end. I was adequately entertained by the movie, although this is not a movie I will be revisiting to watch a second time. And while this is not your average Hollywood Sci-Fi run-of-the-mill movie, it does have some interesting aspects and moments, and it is likely that it will have a greater appeal to a niche group of Sci-Fi fans out there.

I was honestly astounded to see the poor reviews for this movie! I fear that the low scoring reviewers would be just as disrespectful to SK's 2001! Ogg's performance was appropriate and realistic in my opinion, I also saw nothing wrong with any of the cgi and effects..... Some of the close up work of the Sun ☀ and solar flares were exceptional! Watch the movie.... Make up your own mind 👍 This isn't even the worst movie I've seen today........ The Predator takes that title! All I can suggest is that this movie is NO WHERE near as bad as some reviewers are portraying. Maybe people were expecting car chases and cheesy one liners? Not sure 😂 Lower budget - yes. Poor ending - you decide. Should have had the 'event' featured? - why? This is about Troy's bad day at work! Rubbish movie - no.

If you want to watch a movie on the basis of the emotions on display and with the premise of surviving with a voice telling you to go on this is your movie, I don't care for how accurate the Sci Fi elements were, I'm more interested in the fiction and how well the actors portray their emotions. It was a great watch because it made me fight for survival with the lead and gave me hope with Commander Robert's guiding Holloway to not give up, here's to not giving up.

The story was ok, if the ending were better....which it wasn't. No details, but the ending sucked a bag of a*sholes. The whole thing was ruined right from the start, by the utterly horrible sound team. How this made it to release without anyone noticing that the overpowering, excessively loud, nearly constant music was actually drowning out the lines from the actors and the ship computer. I couldn't take it....it was almost the entire movie, just drowning in that awful music. Oh, and let's not forget the sheer amount of long, drawn out sequences of nothing....what the heck is that about? Just random shit on screen for like 3 minutes at a time, for no reason. The main actor wasn't bad, but he needs better direction. FAR better. Such as....when you look to your left and expect to see your coworker buddy and his face is half exploded, your reaction is not to brush it off as if it's no big thing. Hate to break it to you. This movie had a tiny bit of potential for a while there, but then it went full Asylum and ended up sucking eggs the whole way through. It got two stars because it COULD have been good....maybe....if the people that made it were never here, and someone else made it. Anyone else.

Well this an ok film, but it missed a whole bunch of tricks and twists- like what was being tested when the accident happened, what happened to the prototype sun suits mentioned at the beginning... They would have been handy at the end, and what was the true status of conditions aboard the Hathor. Why spend the whole time trying to speak to the commander when there was apparently nothing significant to say to him and finally, when connected home at last...( In the middle of a rescue manoeuvre really???) again apparently have nothing to say! The worst thing though is that there is no ending. The film builds to a rescue attempt and just stops in the middle of it! Yes the filming was good, effects great but insufficient story and lack of any kind of closure means that this is an hour 30min of my life I won't get back.