FTL

2/21/18. Too bad it lasted only 15 minutes, but it was great while it lasted. Great special effects with a good sci-fi story behind it. Nice to be able to catch this online via digg.com

Sweet, clever and well-thought out, FTL is still my fave sci-fi short - and I've seen a good few. Also excellently acted, making this story very believable!

Wow.

The opening visual effects were great - especially the reflections of earth off outside of the ring. All the photography was tight and beautifully lit.

I won't add any spoilers - there isn't much to spoil in a 15minute film - but it was a good story and well edited

Great piece of storytelling. I'd love to see a series made from this. It felt real. You don't see that very often in any show these days.

It is very seldom I give a short a positive rating, much less 10 stars. FTL not only features some of the best CGI I've seen anywhere, but focuses on story and humanity in the process.

The only downside is a couple of moments of poor sound where one can't make out what the main actor is saying. That falls to the director and sound editing to catch and someone dropped the ball. That almost dropped this to 9 stars... but not quite. The rest of this is just too good.

So many shorts fall way short in story and plot that I've almost given up on watching them. I'm glad I made an exception on this one. Fair note: this could be easily extended to form an entire movie, so at the end the down side will likely be the viewer wanting MORE! But for what it is and what it accomplishes, this seems to me a superb example of film making.