The writer was too green for this concept Sorry but I felt that the writer of this script was far too 'green' to have written this concept, what with the zero other screenplays to his name at all.
Sadly, like with other recent scifi films in the past 2 years, this felt like the first draft of a very poorly written, poorly plotted, poorly executed pilot for a failed tv series that no one wanted to "publish" anywhere. Which is a shame as, with guidance from seasoned scifi writers, this could have been a very fun story to play with.
I give it two stars--certainly not for the writing, definitely not for the cgi, but entirely for the cast who did a fantastic job with a hot mess of a script that needed a lot more polish than it got.