The Drift

Having just watched this film on YouTube one is staggered by the negative comments from what one believes to be, those that know their 'bottoms from their elbows'.

On learning of the budget for the making of this production for anyone to criticise in the manner in which they did, one cannot but ponder if they had some either, personal grudge against the production company or, they were ignorant of the actual budget.

For me this regardless of the budget was a decent science fiction film. . Reading the detractors comments methinks today they are probably fans of Disney's most recent garbage with budgets in the multiple multiple millions of dollars. Having made this for just five grand (British) the mind boggles what they could have done with a budget of millions.

Being a fan of most things sci-fi particularly old sci-fi from the 50's too today, but excluding modern Disney output which for this sci-fi fan is unwatchable, But back to The Drift, given there's no such thing as the 'perfect movie' The Drift no doubt has the odd flaw, however as we suspend our disbelief to enjoy every film we watch, then just grab Ye olde popcorn put the lights out and ENJOY , I did muchly...

To all the critics that are bashing the film... I'd love to see you produce anything half as good with 10X the budget! This film cost 5000 pounds to make and looks about as good as the original Robocop. So before you go bashing it, think about how little they had to work with,and how good it was considering. If you look back on the original Robocop, you may find the CGI to be quite lacking as well and slam it all over the place. However, if you think movies like that still deserve their place in history as ground breaking low budget independent film, then I think you will like this too. I usually don't bother writing reviews here for movies, but when I saw people criticizing this movie because it wasn't full on Hollywood, I felt I had to say something.

Backyard Productions have been around since 1994, they made uber low budget shorts and parodys and had never made a feature film until The Drift.

On a budget of just £5000 an attempt to make a scifi movie on this scale was arguably foolish but they have knocked it out of the park. For it's budget the film looks outstanding, the score is brilliant and most of the unknown cast do a decent enough job.

Telling the story of a crew venturing into a space graveyard but becoming under attack from angry cannibal survivors.

Okay, the story is a bit muddled in places and ultimately this British movie is badly flawed but it can't be denied that what they have acomplished here is nothing short out outstanding.

Backyard Productions need to try this again with a bigger budget as The Drift shows that these people know how to make movies.

The Good:

Looks amazing for its budget

Well edited

Beautifully scored

The Bad:

A lot is left unexplained

Action scenes are really quite poor

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Apparently in space people CAN hear you scream

I lasted 15 minutes with the film about the underwater bloke with the tough stickers .Aqua-man .. 200 million dollar budget .The Drift is better than a lot of the crap i have watched to get my science fiction fix

Kind of a crazy movie, you really do not know what this salvage crew is really after and it seems they do a lot of bumbling about and asserting their machoism a bit too much, But like I said, what do you expect for 5000 dollar budget, it is kind of amazing that is all this cost in total, the acting is a bit juvenile and the CGI is early 1980's for sure but it is entertaining if you are very stoned on acid or a good joint, other than that it was hard to muddle through, there were several scenes they could have left out like the docking of the ship catastrophe, should have just docked without all the video game hype. Nothing questionable, no nudity or foul language, but it would be a lot better stoned. Enjoy if you can. But still a good effort for 5000 bucks!