Aurora

This film has now been dropped to the level of 'free with very cheap DVD players' and it still isn't worth the money.

I tried to sell the DVD on ebay 7 times but each time all I got was laughed at for owning it in the first place.

This is without doubt the dullest and most badly written film you have ever seen. I would recommend it for only one thing, sitting in and watching with someone that you never want to see again...ever. If at the end of the film you say, "that was great lets watch it again tomorrow" then its guaranteed that even the hardiest of thick skinned none leavers will be off like a shot and bothering someone else.

For a start assume that a planet has been discovered in the not too distant future where people can walk about in their shirt sleeves and there's no problem with oxygen.There's no life there nothing but desert,a lake of poisoned water and rocks.The only building is a recent bunker full of supplies for future visitors to the planet but the trouble is its 400 miles away from where the ship crashed.The moral there is once such a planet IS discovered build more bunkers! The answer to overcrowded prisons is right here-just the place to send all the sex offenders and leave them up there to colonize the place and possibly start breeding as there are a few women of this kind. It doesn't really say what 6 men are supposed to be doing there but whatever it was they are unable to do it because their ship malfunctioned so we don't know whether the original idea was to look for life forms. I kept hoping maybe a big M sign would appear as they must have been hungry trekking 400 miles through sand.Ever tried walking even a mile on sand-its not easy unless its solid and with the sudden desert storms its probably not on this planet! Generally they were pretty nasty characters-one guy had a zapper and killed one of the party as a sort of mercy killing I suppose after he'd developed gangrene- and they were constantly arguing-the leader of the expedition had lied about the distance to the bunker so they had to walk even further.And they had to leave one guy behind as he'd broken his leg! Pity there was no cannibalism but not even any vultures around!Now that would have made this movie worth 10! The lack of food and water was an unnecessary addition to the story seeing as astronauts carry capsules and as this is set in the next century the technology should have advanced even further-at least to an endless supply of capsules Anyway they finally reach the bunker and thats where the movie ended just like that! Very disappointing-we never got to see them travelling back in the land rovers but if you work it out 400 miles at the speed of 4 miles an hour and thats only in the day as well-is a mighty long time. At least the ship should have been equipped with sand yachts!

I purchased this on DVD cheap for a laugh. There was a small amount of special effects at the begining, the rest was desert scenes, with skylines that look suspiciously like they were altered using Bryce. But that isn't the point. The special effects are almost non existant, so they don't get in the way of the film. This could easily be trekking across the Sahara as across the planet Aurora. The interactions are well thought out, the break up of authority well depicted. I give it a good rating, for an indie film it is really good.

Essentially a story of survival. Five men on a trek across a desert. But not, necessarily a "desert planet." They crash in or by an ocean. Plenty of water there. They have to get across a desert. Okay. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. But earth is much the same. Breathable atmosphere and desert bordering ocean. Southern California, Northern Africa present the same geography. Not a lot of a-c-t-i-o-n as it is more of a psychological story than an action one.

I gave it a four because I have been spoiled by modern special effects and glitzy production but the scenery during the desert day shots is great.

While I understand this was a low budget, independent film, it could have been better. The plot and dialogue served more to get from one end of the film to the other, rather than to engage the viewer into willing these people on. There was a feeling of inevitability rather than tension throughout.

Most serious, in my eyes, was my inability to suspend disbelief. I find it impossible to imagine that five trained and, supposedly, intelligent people would attempt to walk 400 miles in the blazing daytime sun, rather than the cool of night.