Nova

Enjoyable independent sci-fi film with a compelling narrative about a small crew composed of humans and humanoid robots en route to the Mars colony. Was pleasantly surprised that despite the low budget, the production quality was high enough and consistent throughout the film to keep me captivated. The acting is okay, my favorite actor being the one who played the ship's captain, but also the woman who played the titular character had me forgetting she was human. Also the film handled the challenge of having a young child actress quite well and she did a great job in her role.

All in all a technically solid and fun indie film.

To be completely honest, I did consider turning it off after a few minutes. But as the film progressed I did not mind the acting style. In fact, it started to provoke feelings. I really do not know why, but I did get pulled into this film.

The plot is cliche, but there is something I cannot put my finger on. I just wanted to keep watching. It might be that the illustration of the moral dilemmas facing the crew is so clear and highlighted. Maybe it is because there is not much else to focus on. Either way it works. I found myself getting emotionally involved in the characters in ways that even star studded casts have failed.

I don't know if my experience is unique or not, but I like this film.

Not completely bad, just not good enough to recommend. As usual when this happens the script let everyone down.

So a few good things. I think the acting crew wanted to make a go, and some appeared to have certain talent, but the staging was horrid.

For a low budget film they tried to the best they could for scenery and costumes, I will give them that. I might have even overlooked the incredibly thin. But come on, get a clue. Some of it was so bad you should have added 'comedy' to the genre of the movie (simple example, can the women's lashes be any longer?).

I tried to be nice but I have to mention the completely abysmal script and scripting. I don't care how desperate the crew was to be in 'something', this was one you should have turned down.

A few (or maybe more than a few) tweaks and this could have ben a 3 star production. But not now.

I love a good Science Fiction thriller and this one fit the bill nicely. Thematically it was actually really very refreshing and I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie and can consider it fun for the whole family. It had characters of all ages so everybody in my home had one or more people or android we could easily relate to. The subject content were many and varied from trivial to life threatening. It was a very realistic view of the present we're living to the near future were anticipating. It gave us a lot to talk about afterwords and was very well thought out. Kudos to the writer/director. My family feels we gave it a very realistic rating.

What happens when robots begin to feel? Should we nip that in the bud? Or allow them to flourish? What happens when they start to learn things that they weren't necessarily programmed to do? How dangerous is that?

Yes, this film is extremely low budget, but I think it's worth a watch if you want to see one possible outcome to these questions. If you just want action, go watch something else.

The actors aren't very good, but considering the majority of the cast are robots...not sure you can judge that.

Ok. I have to get the costumes off my chest. The fem bots. Literally. The female robots have big hair held in place by a huge barrette. And eye lashes that are so big... maybe they double as antenna?