In the distant future, somewhere in space, the two-person crew of a military scout-ship are awakened from their stasis pods by their android assistant. He quashes their hopes of having reached their home planet with the news that they have been diverted to find a lost transport ship named the Prometheus, and recover its cargo.
The crew naturally wonder what could be so important that they have been diverted so far off course. It soon proves that finding out will be no easy matter: most of the transport's crew are dead, and the ship's android is exhibiting very odd behaviour ... behaviour that their own android will soon come to understand far more closely than he would like.
This low-budget film is basically "Groundhog Day, but grim and in space". I was pleasantly surprised by it overall. The cast are all competent in their roles - this is something that is not guaranteed when you're in budget film territory - and the director has clearly studied Alien for tips on getting the most out of limited resources. I'm certainly not saying it looks like a big budget movie, but it does look pretty much as good as could be expected, and the visuals are only outright bad on one or two brief occasions.
Of course, we are in low budget territory so there are some issues with the film. The dialogue's a bit awkward at time, the pacing is a bit slow, and the (few) action-ish scenes are quite stilted and unconvincing. Still, if you're willing to put up with a few flaws in the execution, there's a decent if downbeat little science fiction story here.
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