Sol Invictus

I had not heard of this movie. It is a cheaply made galactic version of "Lord of the Flies." That said, it stands reasonable well on its own. A group of boys find themselves on a planet during a competition among some space cadets. They are somehow dropped into a milieu that is not what they expected. One group is connected and the rest are singles who must prove themselves to the rest. There is a dangerous creature or creatures on the planet, but the real threat is within the group. They are caught between their competitive beings and their wish to escape their prison. The thing reeks of distrust and immaturity (which means that it does hit the mark pretty well). They are incredibly dangerous individuals and babies at the same time. They are selfish and simple, but they are also filed with angst and complexities. My biggest criticism is that we are never able to figure out what the hell they are doing there and what they are trying to accomplish when it comes to getting home. A clear picture of that would have taken it beyond an encounter among a diverse group of flawed figures. Also, I would have liked to know what life on Earth was like at this time.

This is a movie about a group of several teenage boys who get instantly transported to an alien planet to play some sort of Survival Game. But something goes wrong and most of the boys don't make it to the planet, so toe handful that did get through, though from different teams, are forced to work together to survive and figure out a way to get back to earth.

The acting is terrible, the plot is all over the place, and the dialog is annoying to the ears. This is supposed to be a film about teamwork so that the members of the team can survive, but sometimes they kick a kid out of the group because he is humanly flawed, even though in a situation like this, they need every man they have to strengthen their chances of survival.

I think this is a really, really bad rip off of Robert Heinlein's "Tunnel in the Sky". Now there would be a movie I would pay to see.

I was utterly surprised at how poorly this movie was reviewed by some people.

Bottom line, this movie had me in its grips from almost the beginning.

While perhaps there were a few forced moments in the plot, I really didn't know what was going to happen, and yes, I cared about the characters.

I watched this with my 9-year-old son and we both like it.

For me there was an appropriate amount of mystery, and I even liked the spareness of the setting, the dialog and the plot.

This movie is not about space. It's about PEOPLE.

I saw this long long ago, I would love a DVD of this movie. Its raw and unexpected, can you imagine yourself on a planet trying to figure out how to get home before you get killed. Not knowing whats next, running out of supplies and time, on a hostel planet unexplored. I wish I could share this movie!

I registered with IMDb just so that I could write this review. I was that motivated by the awfulness of this movie. I defy you to name a worse movie. If this movie was any worse, it would actually be better, by virtue of being remarkably something. Normally, I would simply stop watching a bad movie, but I was morbidly curious as to whether the ending could be as terrible as the beginning, so I fast forwarded there. Indeed, they managed to cook up an ending as bad as the beginning. This movie has it all- bad acting, bad costumes, bad effects, an incoherent plot. At the same time, it has none of he awful charm of an Ed Wood flick.