There seem to be many schemes to get more money on the moon, where that journey began through a teenager and her father traveling to the distant alien moon. Perhaps there have been many schemes for that girl and her father where they got a contract to harvest a large deposit of dodgy gems hidden in the depths of the toxic moon forest which is long overdue. Yet there are others traveling to the wild and moving quickly to the fight for survival. Perhaps in the end, that girl is trying to escape that tragedy and this strange trap.
It's rare to see a sci-fi movie that genuinely has a true grit to it, a characteristic that bolsters its screenplay through its more underwhelming passages.
Combining elements of The Defiant Ones (1958) and True Grit (whether Henry Hathaway's 1969 original or the Coen brothers' 2010 remake), Prospect may come with the interstellar trappings of sci-fi, but it has as much in common with a frontiers western
The film balances genre thrills with a detailed depiction of prospecting on an alien world, created via a mix of practical locations (shot in a damp Northwestern forest) and some psychedelic digital backdrops.
create[s], through imagination and simple effects, a story about prospectors, claim jumpers, survival and greed in what used to be called a "space oater."
While many sci-fi films rely heavily on visual effects and the idiosyncrasies of foreign worlds, Prospect entertains viewers in the best way possible: with substance rather than grandeur.
