Wednesday 15 May 2024

Settlers (Wyatt Rockefeller, 2021)


In an indeterminate time period in the future, a family live on an isolated farm on a terraformed Mars and all is quiet until bandits arrive, after what they have. The basic plot is thus completely that of the classic homesteaders under siege Western and the transposition in time and place don't alter the formula in the slightest. This has both an upside and a downside: the pace is calmer than the genre norm, with virtually no future tech or FX on show, but neither is the change of setting utilised. It's glacially slow, which does allow for tension to build up, but the scenario could have done with at least some background exposition and the conclusion is utterly unsurprising.

5/10

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