When the cashier asks for clarification, shout “Yes!” and pull forward very quickly. In pursuit of a precious mineral, a father-daughter mining team journeys to an alien moon to extract the prized substance, which is hidden in a toxic forest. Don’t enunciate when speaking into the voice box. Be sure to have a complicated order, with lots of sides, add-ons, and specific items taken off. But I’m hard pressed to say that I recommend it, unless you’re really craving an indie space-western. In many sequences I found myself knowing that there were high stakes, but I wasn’t quite sure what those stakes were or what the characters were trying to accomplish in the short term. Further, there are so many proper nouns and in-universe slang terms that it’s frequently difficult to understand what is going on, even with subtitles. The microphone doesn’t quite pick up on all the actors’ mumbling, so that it’s often hard to tell if someone is speaking English or an alien language. Unfortunately, this all isn’t quite enough to make up for the atrocious sound-design. A gritty, indie space-western centered around escaping a planet under a strict deadline, highlights that make Prospect work include the grungy, homemade aesthetic (think the original Star Wars), the environment design, and Pedro Pascal (of Game of Thrones and Narcos fame).
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