I've seen this twice now, I
actually enjoyed it.
Earlier in the thread I said it looked like an 80's throwback after watching the trailer and I definitely stand by that comment. It's just like something that could have come out in the wake of Aliens (which it owes a
huge debt to), mashed up with the previous Doom film and the first Resident Evil flick, and I got a kind of Keanu's Constantine vibe from it aswell at times.
It leans more on miniatures than digital fx and, I think, gets the mix about right in that respect but that's more due to budget constraints than choice, probably.
The leading lady is a bit Ripley-lite but I didn't mind, she can handle the action scenes well. If she's not doing the fight stunts herself it's cut together well enough to hide the fact it's a stunt woman if that's the case. The cannon fodder cast are as you'd expect in something like this, ranging from ok to barely passable, so your mileage may vary with that, but it worked for me.
I forgave the fact that there's no weight to any of the weapons they use, they throw them around like the cheap plastic toys they are, and do resemble the Aliens pulse rifles a bit too much. And the monsters are the man-in-suit variety all the way most of the time, straight out of Predator, Humanoids From The Deep and countless other sci-fi monster flicks of yesteryear. For the low budget I thought they did alright.
I can watch stuff like this all day. It's not top tier entertainment, realistically it's pretty low end, but it's entertaining, doesn't pretend to be anything it's not, and is definitely better than a SyFy or Asylum type production. It won't be for everyone and it'll probably end up on something like SyFy, Sony Movies or the Horror Channel in the next 12 months, but it can comfortably be filed alongside other old school sci-fi and/or horrors like Galaxy Of Terror, Inseminoid, Aliens, Predator, Humanoids From The Deep, Moon 44, Robowar... it's obviously not up there with the best but it's definitely not the worst of this kind of thing that's out there. 30 years ago it would have been awesome as a corner shop vhs rental
but I think even now it holds it's own pretty well for what it is.