Occupation: Rainfall

A huge amount of special effects sequences on such limited budget...but it's rubbish.

On a purely technical level it delivers the goods pretty effectively; there are enough explosions and flying bodies to pass muster.

Sometimes even cheesy movies can be a perfect distillation of the zeitgeist.

Rainfall comes some way short of success, but it looks beautiful and tries hard...

With strong central performances and blockbuster-level visual effects, Occupation: Rainfall is a hugely entertaining viewing experience.

If Occupation was Red Dawn but Strayan, Occupation: Rainfall is Independence Day and the post-apocalyptic bits of The Terminator, but Strayan.

Occupation: Rainfall's basic plot and cheesy effects hinder the Australian sci-fi epic's potential despite a good cast and solid ideas.

You have to admire Sparke's ambition; the fact that he was able to pull off something flawed but on a grand scale, full of space dogfights, explosions and lasers, is to be applauded. Full review in Spanish.

If you need a break from prestige films and need your face melted, one could do far worse.

It's an admirable achievement in its own right delivering an astonishing display of visual spectacle.