Sunray: Fallen Soldier

After seeing the 4.5 rating on IMDb, I thought this may just be another low budget action flick without the goods. Wow, was I wrong!

Lower budget it may be but this film hits with everything it tries to do. Way better than the majority of much larger budget films of a similar nature. The main character and his story are above what you get with much higher rated films on IMDb. Is this movie the equivalent of John Wick? Not quite. But it's certainly still an enjoyable film with decent acting and heart.

If you were like me and questioning whether or not to skip this one, give it a shot. You likely won't regret it.

Yes, a truly courageous film, but for so many reasons. When you have actual Royal Marines Veterans portraying characters, some of whom have PTSD you have to realise that these guys have done this for real, lost friends for real, woken up in the middle of the night in cold sweats for real, sat before psychologists and had their memories picked apart and brought bubbling back to the surface like an angry hot volcanic lava and all for real. So I applaud the courage it must have taken to make this film.

My wife and I enjoyed it immensely, it was gritty and action-packed where it needed to be and also deeply moving, melancholic and respectful of issues such as mental health, PTSD and the emotional challenges that our Veterans face after service.

The story was not overly complicated as some films these days tend to be, but it was pitched at a level which kept us engaged from start to finish with everyone playing their parts well. All in all a fabulous and engaging film that we will no doubt watch again. We also very much hope that they get to make a sequel as I reckon there's a whole lot more that could be explored here.

Considering as one reviewer has written this was filmed on a shoe string, through public funding via Kickstarter and none of of the guys involved really had experience in writing, directing or editing (to my knowledge), it's still a great small budget movie... Jesus if you want bad acting and inaccurate details, watch Dirty Angels and that had a far, far bigger budget..!

Honestly a great film, enjoyed the story, the characters and the mental health and PTSD sub-story which tied up the Fallen Soldier angle so well.

Considering these lads are Bootnecks and not Hollywood A listers with million $ budgets, I think they did a bang up job with what they had, and to think this TV Series come Film nearly never happened, I believe this is a true grit and adversity film on all fronts.

Showed British Soldiering well and told a story which is undoubtedly spoken, or should be spoken, by soldiers from all walks of life who have been through battle and come home lost...

Hoofin' geezers, well done.!

A great first film. Great innovating - great story - loved the weapons drills and fight scenes and bootneck slang.

Well done lads - you got in there and did the work and you should be proud of it!

Loved the stunts and interesting twist at the end!

Huge respect and shout out to our forces - thanks for everything you do!

Watch and support this film and offer constructive feedback or just don't comment - it's pretty epic to see it get made and with limited budget to getting picked up and released by apple tv!

An entertaining watch and a phenomenal first effort!

Go check it out for yourselves!

I really pushed myself to finish this film as I am a huge supporter of indie film productions. The entirety of the film was dragging and the acting/casting was decent enough. Costume design was kind of off but I didn't really expect much from that department. Story was okay, not stellar but not bad at all. From a cinematography standpoint: the lighting was not impressive (I understand; indie studios are on a budget as always) but that's to be expected. Furthermore, The girl's boyfriend's story somehow lacked in depth though. I wish that there was something more to what he was portraying. Overall, great job and well done with this work. I'd like to see more from this studio.