Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, an unlikely pair race against an impending global crisis and are confronted by the monsters that live inside us all.
The Osiris Child is a modest Australian sci-fi effort that wears its genre influences openly — Mad Max, Aliens, and pulp space westerns — without adding much distinctive of its own. The plot is a familiar race-against-catastrophe framework with a thin emotional core built around a father-daughter reunion. Acting is competent, with Kellan Lutz and Daniel MacPherson delivering serviceable performances, though nothing revelatory. The cinematography makes decent use of outback locations as alien terrain on a limited budget, showing some craft. The chapter-based structure hints at novelty but ultimately feels like a gimmick rather than a meaningful narrative device. The ending resolves things predictably and without much emotional payoff, consistent with a by-the-numbers genre exercise that fails to fully capitalize on its premise.