Solis

The plot is too weak ..it was dragging till the end.. and I must say, this is a complete waste of time.

I knew after about ten minutes that there wouldn't be a lot of love for this film, but I rather liked it. Yes it was limited, in almost every area, yes it felt a little low budget, but for me it felt like 47 metres down up in Space, virtually the same concept, you're watching a film about hope, will he or won't be, and you're left hanging on til the end to see if he's rescued or not. I definitely wouldn't watch it again, but it was engaging enough. 6/10

This is Carl Strathie's 7th film he's written and directed - all shorts, this being his first full length feature film.

This is not a big budget Hollywood blockbuster production, and thus I'll rate it accordingly as a low budget international film by a amateur film maker.

I will say that Steven Ogg's performance was excellent considered he lacked direction from a seasoned director.

The S/VFX although rudimentary, was actually decent with beautiful cinematography inside the capsule and of the sun.

The score was too loud and annoyingly excessive for the most part.

Carl Strathie's directing was really good, capturing some tense moments, but his writing is still stuck in the 'short film' mode. This film had overly extended scenes that dragged on way too long. The pacing was also way to slow. The length of 92 mins for this film needed to be edited down and sped up the pace to a maximum of 60-70 mins. Had this film been substantially edited down to a short film, it would have been a winner.

Nevertheless, still not bad for his first attempt, but could have been much better if Carl stuck to the directing, and passed his story onto a seasoned screenwriter who could have filled in the blanks.

Would I see it again? No. Would I recommend it? Only to die-hard sci-fi fans that have nothing better to watch on a Sunday afternoon. No worthy of all the 1/10 haters, and not even close to the fake 10/10's, but certainly worthy of a 6/10.

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.

The main issue I had with Solis was the voice acting of the female support actor, who is probably an absolutely lovely person in real life, but when a movie totally relies on the input of just two people for its entire length, this voice acting needs to be absolutely perfect, which it wasn't.

Other than that, the plot holes and general plausibility were hard to accept and this sort of thing has been done so much better and more expansively in other movies, so although a reasonable watch, Solis doesn't have enough to recommend to others and gets a middling 5 stars, because I did quite like it.