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Come on first this movie does not deserve a 1 its not that bad of course clear up the fake reviews with the 8-9-10 too because it certainly does not deserve such a high rating.

The effects are quit good if you compare this to the awful asylum movies. For the budget they did a great job with that. Looking at the FX the costumes and all they where able to do this with 100k even the spaceship battle at the start of the movie are well done.

Its a sci fi very low budget movie. I am giving it a 5 for the effort also the acting was not that bad compared to today standards of beautiful people with no brain.

Luckily I didn't see the rating on this before watching this movie. It's better than many 6 star movies and it certainly isn't stupidly unrealistic like even a few big budget movies. The sci-fi part is quite good and despite the low budget it's quite good what the team has achieved. The story line is a bit slow but still faster than a few of the reknowned series. That's good enough for me to watch it once and enjoy it. A good story and execution also helps.

Let's be clear, this is film is better than the "one star reviews" would have you believe. Does it have its problems? Sure. The "nine star reviews" are also over the top. There should have been more breathing room for the setup in the beginning of the film, so that we get to know the characters better and care more for them.

Having said that, they clearly made the most out of a very limited budget... and at times I was impressed with what they managed to pull off. The astronaut suits looked pretty neat, as did the ships and the combat scenes.

Part of the problem, is that most of the story (from the second act onwards), happens on a mostly deserted planet. It's why the plot had to be pretty basic and some reviewers complain about it being slow. However, that's mostly a factor of the limited budget they had to work with.

Could it have been better? Yes, but you shouldn't go into this expecting the same experience as you would with films that have ten (or one hundred) times the budget. If you have some sort of concept of how difficult it is to make something yourself, you can appreciate that these kids did a good job... and also that there's still room for improvement!

"How can we sell this piece of movie gold? Think damn you, think!"

"I know! Stick the word DUNE big as brass on the cover art, then add the word Drifter in tiny writing."

"Right, that's the plan, meeting adjourned."

A budget take on sci-fi, and it shows. The various components of ships, weapons and suits are very recognizable and does not look like advanced technology. But ok, maybe that's what they were going for. The story is paper thin, there are some suspenseful moments that work well, and the little acting involved isn't horrible from the main character. The CGI is cheap, and I keep thinking things are too repetitive, lumpy and cumbersome. A lot of it is probably due to what we are used to seeing in more expensive sci-fi. I read a review where someone said it could have been a short movie, and it would have covered everything they needed. I second that opinion. A 25 minute feature wouldn't be out of place.

This movie just was not good at all in any sense. Too bad, I looked forward to a new chapter. The fake (obviously fake to anyone unbias and truthful who actually see it) reviews are laughable. This was a true waste of time by a bad script writer and producer and I wish someone who have been honest enough to call this before it went out to the public... it was a dying horse from birth. Arrrgh as Charlie Brown would say. It is time I wish I would have spent better. If you don't like it from the first 5 minutes, it is just more of those 5 minutes put back to back to back to back. Sorry Kyle, they didn't live up to the name.

Well, first of all I must admit that I am not really a great fan of the sci-fi genre, unless it turns out to be "Star Wars". But still, I was given the chance to sit down and watch the 2020 movie "Dune Drifter", and since I hadn't already seen it, of course I found the time to sit down to do so.

While "Dune Drifter" was semi-watchable, writer and director Marc Price wasn't really delivering a sci-fi classic with this particular movie. The plot was just way too generic and predictable.

The special effects were adequate for the movie, given it was a relatively low budget movie. And I will say that the props were definitely good. Well, aside from the suit that the 'enemy' was wearing, which was just a hardball protective outfit with a gasmask. Seriously? That was just so laughable and painful to watch, and it was so hard to take it serious.

"Dune Drifter" is the type of movie that you will watch once, then never think about it again, because the contents to the storyline and script were just so vague and mundane that there simply is no purpose to watching it a second time. Plus, the movie just can't support more than a single viewing anyway.

Initially I had thought that "Dune Drifter" might have been a mockbuster from The Asylum on the upcoming "Dune" movie. Luckily it wasn't that. But let's just be honest, "Dune Drifter" was by no means a memorable movie regardless.

My rating of "Dune Drifter" settles on a generous three out of ten stars.

For people confusing this with Dune Anything, if they would just read the description of the movie they would figure out it has nothing to do with the HerbertVerse. There are no Sand worms, No mighty Houses, no Bene Gesserit, and no Muad' Dib, and No, the spice does not flow.

This is a raw movie. A simply made movie. Too realistic for most people. A movie for hardcore sci-fi fans who will stick it out through all the unpleasant screaming in the beginning, the somewhat bland darkness of space, and the simplistic props and wardrobe.

But alas, no one wants to use their imagination anymore, so when they see simple costumes they immediately crap all over other peoples hard work.

You don't like what this director did, that's fine. How about you make a movie so we can all see how well you would do...

This wasn't a great film, great story, or great acting. The movie IS long and tedious. But the last 10 minutes make it worthwhile as things come together and some questions are answered.

Will I ever watch this again? No. I am content I saw it once, though.

Really? It's one of the worst movies I've ever watched. Couldn't even watch it all the way. And to steal the name of a movie that's about to come out...so lame, man. So lame. Are you expecting to take some of their money by baiting people to go and watch it? Just sad... And what a coincidence, that all people that said it was good, gave it the exact same rating.....NINE stars. Are you really going to give it the same rating THE GODFATHER has?!? Have you no shame?!? Even if the story was good, it still couldn't pass FIVE stars. AND YOU GAVE IT FREAKIN' NINE !!!!!

9 minutes to travel to an Alien stronghold. 4 minutes to survey area along with minor communications. 10 minute space dogfight. Total: 23 minutes of a bunch of two-manned fighters, everyone in helmets, all talking. We have no idea who anyone is, we feel nothing about what's happening, we don't connect with a single person.

Story begins around the 23 minute mark when one of the two-manned spacefighters crashes on an Alien planet.

You can completely skip the first 23 minutes and loose absolutely nothing. It's (nearly) meaningless. Even the sfx is pretty bad during this sequence. It exist only to tell you that earth is in conflict with an alien species and during the conflict one of the ships crashed on the planet below. That's it.

The story is about being stuck in a desolate place, inhospitable and dangerous. Early on, it even has elements of horror. There is a palpable desperation and fear that's portrayed brilliantly by Adler (Phoebe Sparrow), who is essentially a one-person act. This is her film and she delivers.

In order to enjoy this film, skip (or fast forward) the first 23 minutes. It means nothing and its frenetic (crazy) pace is in sharp contrast to the rest of the film. Secondly, expect a _slow_ emotional drama - with touches of horror, fear, exploration, some action and finally... the force of will driven by desperation.

This isn't a cutesy, cartoony hollywood blockbuster aimed at children and heralded by video game playing armchair warriors. There's a sense of realism. This turns many people off that want to be entertained by glitz and a Jack Slater ('Last Action Hero' - one of my fav films) kind of star.

It deserves better than it's current 3.2 rating (by 568 as of 10jan2021). I'm rating the film from the 23 minute mark (which is basically where it starts) at 8 - but giving it a 10 to offset the soul-sapping rating of 3.2. If you can adjust your expectations (this isn't Star Wars) and skip that dreadful, first 23 minutes: you'll find another hidden gem.

Considering this is very low budget and made with effort and heart it's not as bad as many bigger budget movies I've seen.

The opening scene is a bit of a mess with how the sound was done and the "alien" we see half way through the movie is absolutely laughable but the actors are solid, the effects and props are pretty good by no budget standard. It's worth a look for the B movies Sci lovers among us.

Both Humans and Aliens must be getting their plasma coils from ACME Rocket Ship Parts Inc.

Oh and Alien like wearing jeans

This was not a stinker, despite the bad one star reviews here, especially if you grew up watching way cheesier sci fi than this. Low budget yes, but well done low budget. The only cringe-worthy scene is the phalanx of Earth ships in space early on. The name of the movie bears no relation to the story, but it got me to look. Don't expect big budget effects. This is a fairly well done character study of someone trying to survive, not a sweeping space opera.

I had to try. I love SciFi, but i knew this was going to be a roll of the dice.

I lost.

This movie was stupid from the very first 10 seconds of the movie - all the way until the end.

The special effects were pathetic - like..... horrible. A Middle School class could do better with some flashlights and plastic wrap. Story? Dumb. Acting? Equally dumb.

Run for your life.

Looks like old Star Wars stuff, except without the acting and thrill of the Star Wars movies. We watched, we yawned, we turned the volume down and we gave knowing looks, eye rolls and laughs. Sorry guys it just wasn't put together well by a great team. Not everyone is a writer director or actor.

It's definitely not going to win oscars but for a low budget flick it actually wasn't bad. Pacing was overall fine, acting was sub par and it wrapped up very fast but that's to be expected in B flicks. Worth a one time watch for those not afraid of B movies.

It looks pretty good and has some good action to it. Sadly I watched it off and on but have seen the whole thing a couple times... I like it, funny title with Dune so important... is this just nostalgia affecting me to not give this a chance with immediate comparisons or is it actually good... not sure... but here's a 5 spot for good style and enough substance to keep me interested.

First of all, perhaps nobody who reviewed this movie has seen movies upon which it was based. No. Not Star Wars. It was based on very gritty art films from the 70s that dealt with war, the Vietnam war specifically. So you have to approach it with that mindset.

So you're going to get confusing camera work, long, long takes, slow pacing, and VERY simple plot.

There's a gentleman on here who was in the Air Force, and said that the director was totally wrong about how those fighter pilots would REALLY act in a combat situation. Again, this is not a documentary, first off, and secondly, it's made painfully obvious that the troops were raw and poorly trained, the defense mounted by the humans was poorly organized, and that the humans were seriously outgunned and outclassed by the aliens.

Of course, this ain't Godard. So no, there's not much there there. But what there is of the film is interesting and quite well done, actually.

Doing non Hollywood sci-fi is a thankless t, because nearly everyone wants "slick". They want the extremely high budget, very predictable, standard scripts replete with all the standard tropes. A movie that doesn't offer that is automatically and unequivocally branded as "bad". That's simply unfair.

The practical cockpits and very good vfx models were apperacted and retro as was the location shooting but it weapon effects and the exploding ships looked cheap and while the story carried it self well the universe could have used some padding out .

So, 10 users review this with 9/10????? please don't waste your time!

Dune Drifter is another one of those movies that are made when a bunch of inebriated friends get together, collect the small change in their pockets and decide to make a movie.

The same guys then ask a random thirteen-year-old Star Wars fan to write a script on the back of an envelope. And the kid does this in the school bus, while going home.

I think that is the best way to summarize Dune Drifter.

It is bad, really bad.