Despite having genre heavies like Fishburne & Paxton, the film disappoints. The storyline is riddled with plotholes, some so big they make your eye roll. The lead actor disappoints with his absolutely expressionless face (at times I thought he might have been Christian Slater's long-lost brother or something), and there's a lot of slow buildup to things which required faster pace. Paxton looks tired and washed out, and Fishburne is simply there to pick up his cheque I bet, while not filling the screen with his Morpheus-imitation.
The plot can be summed up in one line - colonists in a post-apocalyptic future fight off a bunch of feral men (or mutants). That's it. No explanations are given, so forget all your "how"s, "why"s, "where"s, etc.
Not recommended. Go watch
Ghosts of Mars and
The Day After Tomorrow, and you will know most of this movie's mess when you mix the "possessed" cannibals of the former with the setting of the latter.
* ½