I Watch Films: Prospect

Prospect

A father and daughter take a ride on the last spaceship to the green moon, a job that should make them a fortune. Someone has found a hoard of potential gemstones and need someone who knows how to turn them into actual gemstones, a difficult and finicky process.

It goes wrong. The daughter is forced to team up with a stranded prospector who is more bandit than anything else, and he talks in that overlong style that old-fashioned gangsters and cowboys like. You know how it is, a man might choose to use a few laconic words to make his point, but between you and me I have thought we can stretch things out to come to a more pleasurable conclusion. That sort of thing.

Things go wrong, people get shot, there’s some impromptu surgery, mechanical breakdowns, that sort of thing. A dark, gritty western-inspired bit of science fiction. There’s some oddness about the series of events, not helped by drawing attention to the geography by bringing out a map occasionally. I still enjoyed it.

Watch This: A cool bit of indie sci-fi film
Don’t Watch This: If you want anyone to explain what’s going on rather than figuring it out for yourself as they walk slowly across the wooded landscape
I Was Directed To This: by Discount Robots And Time Machines, a new SF film website that I commend to your attention