We're now in the rarely fruitful realm of the Kickstarter-funded production, here applied to a sci-fi theme. The micro-budget naturally entails a very TV movie feel with lashings of CGI backdrops and green screens instead of anything solid, apart from miniature vehicles reminiscent of Gerry Anderson's Terrahawks TV series. So the obvious route is to go fully tongue-in-cheek with a post-events narrative that removes any real tension as a group of human travellers use an alien spaceship they found to try to stake their claim to even more alien tech and the untold riches that that would mean. Unsurprisingly, they're not the only ones, so there's a confrontation to deal with.
Ghost Planet cheerfully plunders from any sci-fi source it can think of, including having their employer's synthetic representative with a hidden agenda tag along (Alien et al.), and so there are no original elements at all, apart from the blasé tone. The best that can be said is that it has no pretensions.
4/10
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