"When the Solar System is attacked by an overwhelming alien force, astronaut Xander returns to a looted Earth to search for what matters most." That's the thumbnail description. It must be about some other movie, because it has very little to do with this one. First of all, it's not the solar system; it's just the Earth and the Moon. The overwhelming alien force is this gauzy netlike thing that comes out of nowhere and blankets the Earth. We see it from space; bright lights on the night side. What's happening? Cities are being obliterated, leaving bit holes. We see exactly one of those. Second, Xander, a Scottish astronaut on the ISS is awakened by alarms blaring. Hull breach: Abandon ship. He does so. Fortunately, he lands in Britain! His girlfriend Kyla had a terrible injury; she's been "asleep" for 7 months. She wakes up about the same time that he lands. And then we and they discover that - oh, no, not again! People have been turned into ZOMBIES. How disappointing. These days, zombies are the go-to solution for the unimaginative in the movie business. Xander and Kyla spend most of the film wandering around separately, encountering a tiny handful of weirdos whose behavior is completely illogical; especially Sadie, a woman Xander rescues from a hole in the ground, and who is so relentlessly unpleasant as to be almost unwatchable. The dialogue is utterly empty and meaningless; you keep waiting for something meaningful to happen, but it never does, except maybe that the couple are reunited. I ought to admit that this is a spoiler, but it doesn't really matter a bit. Then you find out that maybe it was all a dream; or more accurately, a nightmare from which there is no escape for the hour and a half or so that this movie drags on. This is obviously a low-budget effort, but whether small-budget or big-budget, if you don't start with a good script, the film will fail. Like this one. A more "hollow" and pointless film you will rarely find. It doesn't even qualify as desperation fare for insomniacs.
