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WOW, just WOW. This move will get you hooked within 30 seconds of its start. If you are a fan of alien sci-fi movies you need to watch this. I was impressed with the idea of the director to release this as a kick starter type project where you can purchase the movie after you have liked it. The end will make you crave for when do these guys come out with the next part.

The CG and the VFX are amazing. The fact that you can watch this movie on YouTube in HD makes you wanna buy this movie. It's not a complete movie but just an episode so you might not like that you didn't get to see the end.

Do buy the movie if you like it and support this kind of cinema. Kudos to the team who worked on this. Can't wait for the next part

I can't express just how blown away I was by this. I think it would make an awesome full movie. Alien was a great series, I think this could be better and Sigourney Weaver is a perfect fit for it.

Oh and um, please, make a PC based video game for it. I'd buy it in a minute.

Wow!The fantasy visuals are fantastic in a hideous Blomkamp style. Seeing what has been done here reaffirms he should have been handed the keys to Alien and allowed to bring imagination and creativity back to a franchise that has, seemingly, been sold down the river. Money men and, apparently, Ridley Scott himself are OK with remixing what's gone before with unlovable characters and scripts bordering on laughable. Hopefully the old fart will retire before long. That said, though the eagerly-anticipated Aliens follow-up is currently dead, a massive shame no doubt, this could well be the start of something even better. This new alien/human conflict concept is exciting.... Sure, it's a short with a limited purse so it has minor shortcomings, slightly rough edges but just imagine if it had a full budget and Sigourney in a lead role. Happy times, fingers crossed!

A fantastic short film by the creator of District 9, Elysium and Chappie. This short shows us a destroyed world which has been taken over by mutant lizards, the unlucky ones are being used as laboratory animals or slaves. Those who menaged to survive, start a war against the enemy. The whole film is probably meant as a demonstration of Mr Blomkamp's cinematic talent, because it's simply to awesome to do nothing more with this project. I absolutely hope that it will turn into a feature film some day, i can only say look it up. And you will know where i'm talking about, give Blomkamp a decent budget to realize this project.

"Rakka" is a really new movie from this year (2017) that runs for 22 minutes and was released on Youtube just a couple days ago where it already racked up over a million clicks. The writer and director is South African Neill Blomkamp and once again he tells us about a fictitious alien invasion. This is partially true only though as it is really much more about humans dealing with the invasion than about the way the aliens got to Earth. Similar to "District 9", a film i really enjoy very much. This one here is not on the same level, but still fairly well-done. The difference to the film I just mentioned is that this time the aliens are really evil and they possess the means to control humans' minds and let humans act the way they want them to. In order to oppose this mind control, humans need to improve their own scientific research and there is talk about applications that manage to keep the minds intact. Overall, this was a fairly decent film. Visually, of course it is top-notch as always with Blomkamp. The most known cast member is 3-time Oscar nominee Sigourney Weaver here and I liked her partially. I could have done without her in the battle scenes to be honest towards the end, but the scene where she talks to the guy they saved from the aliens was well-done. The best part of the film, in my opinion though, was the introduction, the very first act with the bomb explosion and talk about conservatory. Blomkamp is really really strong usually in his films when it comes to introducing us to the scenario and world this film is set in and this short film here is no exception. All in all a pretty good watch, especially if you like SciFi more than I do. I give it a thumbs-up. On a final side-note, this is the maiden projects by Oats Studios, Blomkamp's new production company that seems to be focused on movies with a brief runtime especially, so we may get more strong quality short films from these guys in the future. Would not be a surprise as Blomkamp was a prolific and successful short film director early in his career. Overall, "Rakka" is a film that also would have worked (maybe even will be remade) as a full feature film I think. Go see it.

Rakka is one of several new sci-fi short films from Neill Blomkamp; seemingly all very well resourced and with a lot of ambition. Rakka creates an entire world in a very short period of time – one where lizard-esque aliens have taken over Earth and crushed humanity, apart from very small patches of resistance. The short is in three chapters, and ends in a way to feel like it is a proof-of-concept for something bigger, but at the same time it is pretty satisfying.

The narrative is not really where that occurs, because it is a sci- fi idea that has been done many times with different beasts or robots in the lead role. However the world that the film creates in a short time is fascinating – from the ideas around the aliens, the nature of the resistance, the experiments conducted, and of course just how impressive and committed the visual elements are. All of this is polished very well, leading the film to feel much bigger than it is. The downside of the short running time is that it perhaps doesn't fully satisfying – in particular I thought the ending could have been a bit less open than it was – not for the wider story, but just for this 20 minutes.

In terms of that polish; visually it is very impressive, with great design, sound, music, and atmosphere. The effects are impressive (not "for a short film" but just impressive), and of course having someone like Sigourney Weaver in your lead role can only help. There was one element that gave me pause though, and it was the way the film put the humans into the role of terrorists but yet didn't make that horrific or seem like a terrible but unavoidable cost. It is not an unique idea (Battlestar Galactica did it in its third season), but here the imagery is so clear (beheading, suicide vests) that it is an unavoidable meaning and connection to groups like ISIS, that it is a weird feeling that the film just lets it happen.

This aside, it is an impressive sci-fi short, with lots of polish, ideas, atmosphere, and potential.

I stumbled across this and would pay to see a full length movie. Excellent character set up. Always a Weaver fan. Great creature creation with better than expected special effects Any info on if or when the remainder of the story will be told will be golden That's all. Cheers

I'll be THAT guy, who gives one of the rare thumbs-down. A lot of people, who have watched RAKKA for free on Youtube, Steam, etc. have commented: "How is this free?". Well, commercials usually are, even if they are high-profile, expensive short-movie-with-popular-actors commercials.

I got introduced to the art of Mr. Blomkamp by his early and absolutely brilliant short movies "Tetra Vaal" (which "Chappie" was later based on) and "Alive in JoBurg" (turned into "District 9"). Those movies did not only display technological proficiency by a very young, very talented film student, but more important: originality. I consider "District 9" to be one of the most remarkable sci-fi movies ever made, setting a very high bar, especially for the director himself.

"Rakka" leaves me with the impression that either this bar might be difficult to reach for Blomkamp, or he didn't intend to create something genuine, rather a 22-minute exposition vehicle to demonstrate the capabilities of his own production company. In this regard, "Rakka" excels impressively. It's a tour-de-VFX with stunning, emotionally appealing visuals and CGI designs, altogether recommending Oats Studios for three-digit million dollar heavy Hollywood productions.

But as for the story and it's narrative, it is tedious and uninspired. Let's look at the checklist:

✔ aliens invade earth to destroy everything and exterminate humanity ✔ aliens invade earth to harvest terrestrial resources ✔ aliens probably trying to colonize earth, hence aforementioned measures ✔ humanoid aliens ✔ human survivor resistance ✔ everything exciting exclusively happens in the United States ✔ the obligatory tough guy ✔ the obligatory crazy guy ✔ the obligatory wasted-in-his-first-scene guy ✔ the obligatory female heroine(s) ✔ the obligatory chosen one ✔ alien thought- and mind-control ✔ alien omnipotence, spoiled by a ridiculously exploitable weakness

Unfortunately, this is not the "things I've NEVER seen a dozen times before" list. Especially the setting that is revealed within the first minute reminded me of the series "Falling Skies". I've grown tired of predictable stories like that, where aliens are actually a mere projection of all evil that humanity is capable doing to itself (without any alien intervention). Nice allegory, but this horse has been beaten to death more than once already.

I can only hope and wish that Mr. Blomkamp doesn't turn into a Ridley Scott like director - someone with a great instinct for powerful visuals, but in desperate need of good writers.

Simply the BEST movie I've ever seen about alien invasion. Please, make a full movie!

Another fantastic short film from Oats Studios bringing prestige to short films with immense budgets, top stars and competent creation.

Here we follow survivors during an alien apocalypse, after a mass genocide the last of mankind struggle to fight back.

Starring Sigourney Weaver and looking like a AAA movie this is a very enjoyable feature.

But here is the problem, it feels like a scene from a movie and nothing else. Making a short film with such an epic premise was ultimately doomed to struggle and this has no beginning and no end.

Regardless is very enjoyable but this simply isn't what short films are made for.

The Good:

Fantastic production values

Everything just looks amazing

Brilliant introduction

The Bad:

Feels incomplete due to it's limited length

Things I learnt from this movie:

If aliens can mind control you if you look at them then it's best to do so despite being trained against it

Alex Jones was right, lizard men are real!

(1.0) Plot... too common, reminding me of Terminater 4 and other alien invasion films. (2.0) Acting... good (2.0) Sounds... good (2.5) Visual... camerawork, CGI, slowmotion, all awesome

I have no idea what is with me and Neill Blomkamp. I love District 9, but everything hes made after that has been nothing but underwhelming. And unfortunately the same goes for this.

First thing, it feels like the first third of this short is nothing but an exposition dump. And I can understand why they had to do that, but heres the thing. If your going to create a short film with all of this world building and complex ideas. Why don't you just make it a movie so you could go a bit more in depth? Though to be honest, since most of Blomkamp's films haven't been having the best reception it probably was a movie before.

Some of the writing felt somewhat clichéd and forced in a couple of areas (mainly the exposition bit), the cinematography was about as pleasing to look at as staring at puke colored cement. Plus there were more than a few awkward edits.

Now while I mainly have negatives to say about this, there is one thing that was done well enough that I feel talking about that aspect in particular. Which is the VFX. I feel like Blomkamp while fantastic with making a film as a whole, has always excelled at VFX. Even with District 9 the effects were great with the budget they had. And I'm assuming this one didn't have that massive of a budget. But even then, the effects work is stunning in more than a couple of areas.

Rakka had a lot of potential, but was bogged down by its execution and limitations as a short film. This really is something I feel would benefit from being a feature film.

48/100

Made story no sense, the "alien" reptile cgi was cartoonist, the plot was horrible but the acting seemed ok. Why do they always have to go so OTT with Cgi and aliens? why cant they just make them look slightly more human and focus on the story and character building.