This movie is basically steampunk, or rather what I'd call "scrappie", sci-fi. Flight software in a casete, buttons, switches, bulbs and cathode-ray screens, a spacecraft cobbled up on the cheap, an emphasis on second-hand equipment for the cash-strapped heroes. That's all fine (even atmospheric), and the absence of CGI or other special effects is not missed, if you got a solid script to back a good story. Alas, this is not the case with this movie. It makes the most of our planet's natural environment, making it look outlandish. Acting isn't bad either. But all of this rests on thin air, when it comes to a story that goes somewhere. Things happen and in the end our heroes stage a narrow escape, but none of the other folk appearing have any proper reason for doing so or offer much by way of exciting twists and turns, the end scenes are rather puzzling (how did the condemned redskin guy break free?) and all you are left with is a basic "tried to make some buck by mining a planet but failed" scenario. None of that can lift the film from a very average attempt to something really worth watching.
