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Such a frustrating disappointment

Instant Favorite.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

It doesn't take long into watching "Stranded" to figure out what the filmmakers' inspiration was, that being the 1970s movie "Alien". But while "Alien" was effective and convincing, "Stranded" is anything but. To be fair, director (and co-writer) Roger Christian (who made the notorious "Battlefield Earth") was working with very limited funds and resources. Although the sets and special effects are not the worst I've seen in a low budget sci-fi film (there are some okay make-up effects, for one thing), they do look somewhat impoverished despite Christian darkening them and using other techniques to try and hide their cheapness. A bigger problem, however, is the script. There is no proper introduction to the characters before the crisis starts, and there's little character development afterwards. And the story moves at a crawl, in part because there are only four main characters, meaning the movie is mighty slow to start bumping them off. (Almost two-thirds of the movie passes before the first death happens!) As a result, the movie is really dull as well as slow. While this movie is indeed an improvement over Christian's "Battlefield Earth" movie - it's more coherent in tone and direction, and far less stupid - I don't think it entertains that well even for potential viewers who are in an undemanding mood and have the opportunity to see it for free. Which are the exact circumstances I was in when I saw the movie.

The sets on display here (thankfully can only be seen at the beginning of the movie for a short period of time) are so bad, that you'd wish they'd have used a Lego set. Pretty sure that would've added more realism to the whole thing. Realism and being serious though being things that destroy this movie faster than an Ant's sneeze would take to destroy the "set". Just slightly faster though.While the interior is somewhat OK (compared to the exterior you could say a Quantum leap), this is not all that is wrong with the movie. There is also the plot. The thin thread that is holding together all the "action" and "excitement" you're about to witness. Slater obviously needs money and you do wonder (or I do), if that is still the same actor who I cherished from movies such as "True Romance". If the movie would just try to relish on how messed up it is and go for the "let's make fun of ourselves", it might have been somewhat entertaining. Unfortunately the only thing you might feel, is sorry for the actors ... Stay clear, for your own good

Stranded is a low budget sci-fi which fails on most accounts, due to a lame script and quite bad instruction of an otherwise OK plot idea, which could be described as a mix between the great Alien, Moon and Splice and some gory splatter movie.The poor actors has here been in the moist hands of director Roger Christian (cathastophy when it comes to films, amongst them the infamous Battlefield Earth) and they didn't believe a thing what they were doing. It's so sad to see this, but not even the best of actors can survive a really bad script and an awful director. When you got both, as here, they are really in a clusterfuck. I feel sorry for them, and won't hold it against them.I becomes obvious that Roger Christian should be kept far away from the industry, as he is both writer and director of this mess. Well he could direct music videos at best. This film should have been killed before birth, just what should have happened to the alien.The plot holes are enormous, and most of the film doesn't make any sense. They all act as madmen, without any reasoning.When thus from me gets a 2, is based on the idea, which could have been working, and though this is made in a tiny budget, a great script would have saved it. The entertainment value is also there, if you enjoy a bad movie. This due to the film only taking itself too seriously, with not one single nod to humor. The score is OK. The alien is also quite well made, though Thea should have forgotten the lasting tube fingers.The dialog is the worst, which all actors of course are forced to eat and breathe. It's easy too see that the actors just wanted this travesty to be over. When the film ends, you are happy that it kept under 90 minutes. Watching only if you're a sucker for bad movies! Please keep Roger Cristian away from pens and cameras in the future. Or pay him to be sent out in space. Anyone who even thinks about giving him the money to make a film (yes I know he has a new one finishing now) should be tortured with watching this and Battlefield Earth in slow motion first, in a Clockwork Orange style. That should prevent us for further predicaments.

I thought the movie was really quite good. The plot didn't have too many holes, the visual effect were decent, and i am a fan of two of the main actors. Christian Slater, and Brendan Fehr (Jarred Boothe on Bones). 1) I do not agree with the other users saying it's and "Aliens" rip off. Not once did any of the Aliens ever mutate or think like humans. The Aliens were ruthless, acidic killers. The only time they "evolved" was in Prometheus, and that wasn't until the end of the film when the DNA from the octopus thing mixed with the "Engineer" race. 2) I liked that it was open ended. It left room for interpretation about where the asteroids came from, and why.3) While it was only 88 minutes, it was the perfect length. Often I find that most killer alien movies, Alien and it sequels, are far too long for their own good. 4) If the Aliens are supposed to be such ruthless killers, then the movies should have been more like the video games where the humans were rushed by wave after wave after wave of Aliens. Especially the first movie; I thought it moved slow and clunky. The Alien should have been able to pick them off all at once. Also after having seen Prometheus, why were none of the dead humans ever transformed into Alien-Human hybrids? And why was there only one Alien when they discovered an entire ship of eggs?5) It's completely believable that the Captain and Doctor would not believe the claims of seeing the monster. The woman did not report being cut by the tube with the spores, and the Carbon Monoxide poisoning would have made them hallucinate. 6) The only unbelievable part was that the alien thrived in an oxygen/carbon rich environment. Then they showed the air sacks on its neck to explain that.I'm tired of everyone trying to compare movies to one another like some jaded hipster. "Oh it's too much like this..." or "This was too unbelievable because this...". IT'S A F*&%ING SCI-FI MOVIE! The whole point of sci-fi is that it's not believable or can be compared to another. Hell if people really paid attention the the entire Dead Space series ripped of the movie Event Horizon. Seriously, watch this movie, don't compare it or try to make it something it's not, and enjoy the ride. You won't be disappointed, I promise.