Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today I will show you an action, adventure, sci-fi film from 2016,
titled The Osiris Child. Spoilers ahead! Watch out and take care.
It’s some point in the distant future, and humans have started to colonize the universe.
The off-Earth military contract company Exor, housed in a huge complex in the sky,
looks down upon a desolate world that is home to a penal colony and the capital city of Osiris.
Up there with the complex exists the Flotilla, a military base. In charge of supporting new
settlements is Lieutenant Kane Sommerville, a conflicted war hero who left Earth after an
accident on an early combat mission he led because of a mistake he made that resulted in the death
of nearly all of his crew. The higher-ups accused him of substance abuse, and while he was pardoned
of the case thanks to his decorated career as a fighter pilot, he and his family were never the
same afterward. Living in the Flotilla makes it hard for him to see his eleven year old daughter,
Indi Sommerville. Today he is taking her out on a ride through the planet's desert, although she is
not impressed by such an empty wasteland. Indi tells him her mom thinks he is running away,
but he deflects the comment by saying he hasn't talked to her in a long time and that he is proud
to be part of a project that builds humanity's new future. To get on his daughter's good graces, he
lends her his weapon and teaches her how to shoot before they go to check the new bunkers together.
When they are done, Indi is sent to Osiris city to stay with a nanny, since she isn't allowed up
in Flotilla with him. Kane promises her he will be back in a week and she can call him anytime.
After a glimpse of the monsters that lurk in the wasteland during the night,
morning comes for Kane in the Flotilla. His AI, Travis, wakes him up and prepares his
breakfast for him while playing his messages. Kane ignores the ones from a coworker and his wife,
but he does listen to Indi's while looking at some reports. The message is suddenly cut short,
however, and when Kane asks Travis to restore it, the AI says it can't because all communications to
the surface have been temporarily disrupted after disturbances in prison. The person in
charge of the Exor complex is General Lynex, who is considered the kind of person that is more
concerned with her own place in the universe than the people who actually live in it.
She is currently receiving a status report of the colony after the prison has been breached, some
creatures that Exor itself created have gotten inside and have been killing prisoners. The outer
cities are also gone and it is a matter of time before the monsters kill everyone on the surface.
The colonel wants to save as many lives as possible, but Lynex thinks this will destroy the
reputation of the company, so she decides to call a meeting to present an alternative plan. However,
she lies to the attendees, who include Kane: she tells them the prisoners have rioted and are in
possession of a lethal virus Exor had experimented on and now they are using it to hold the planet
hostage. If Exor tries anything to intervene or rescue people, they will release the pathogen in
the capital. This calls for Protocol 84, which requires the entire decimation of the colony,
Lynex says that if the prisoners hear of it they will be able to negotiate a better deal. They
have twenty-three hours to achieve it, and Lynex promises everyone that the people in the capital
and her employee's families will be fine. After the meeting is over, Lynex orders the colonel
to put a tag on every attendee to keep an eye on them for those following twenty-three hours,
if there is any unusual movement, then they should be isolated. Desperate after hearing the news,
Kane tries to contact Indi, to no avail; and when he asks Travis for reports on the prison incident,
he is told they are classified. The colonel takes pity on him and for the sake of their friendship,
he tells Kane the truth: there is no virus, what Exor has been secretly working on all these years
is the creation of creatures called "ragged" that would be shipped and used in the creation of new
colonies. There is no hostage situation, the monsters have escaped and are moving towards the
main city. In twenty-three hours, Exor will blow the reactors. Kane gets angry with him for having
been lied to and allowed to bring his family when he knew what was going on under the surface,
but the colonel doesn't have time to argue. He tells Kane that they are going to lock down the
hangar bay in twenty minutes, after which nobody will be able to enter or leave the station. Kane
decides to do what he does best: piloting. He steals a ship and leaves the station, flying
with outstanding talent to dodge the shooting from the officers that chase him. But when he
forces this ship to exceed G-force to destroy the last Exor guard, he begins to lose consciousness
and the emergency system takes over, ejecting his seat. Snapping out of it at the last second,
Kane manages to take off his seat belt and open the parachute, allowing him to safely land in
the water. That is, until he stands up and a mysterious figure knocks him out with a weapon.
Kane wakes up on the ground and finds the person that dragged him there is Sy Lombrok,
who is now pointing a gun at him. He tries to explain the situation by using a lie about the
prisoners having access to the reactors, but turns out Sy was a nurse at prison, so he knows
he isn't telling the truth. To convince him of his story about the planet going to blow up soon,
Kane tells him he wants to save his daughter, who is currently staying at the capital, and that he
will give Sy access to a safety bunker if he helps him rescue her, so Sy accepts. A flashback begins
then, and Sy can be seen as a prisoner in the planet's jail. He is having lunch with another two
inmates, Vim and Kreat, while discussing a plan to escape using information another prisoner called
Carmel has given Sy. Kreat thinks it is a suicide mission, but Sy thinks the time is now or never,
so Kreat and Vim agree to it when they get confirmation that an inmate called Bostok and his
group are also in. For the next step of the plan, all of them need to be in solitary confinement to
find the right exit. Carmel tries to be sent to solitary but instead, he is dragged into a meeting
with Warden Mourdain, who makes fun of him for being religious and tells him he won't send him to
solitary anymore before beating him up while two officers hold him. Meanwhile, Sy starts a fight in
the mess hall, which is interrupted by Mourdain and the guards who, to everyone's surprise,
allow the fight to continue as long as the crowd behaves. Since this is part of the plan,
Kreat doesn't behave and hurts the man hitting Sy, inciting a riot and causing the guards to
get involved to stop them. The prisoners are sent to solitary, which consists of special
rotating cells with flashing lights that can have maddening effects on the prisoners' minds.
Sy is staying there too until Mourdain comes to take him and Vim away for a very special purpose.
Back in the present, Sy points out to Kane that they won't make it to the capital in time. Kane
says on foot they won't, but there's a contraband outpost beyond the mountains where they can find a
vehicle. Their talk is interrupted when ships fly by and the men crouch to hide in the tall grass,
this means Exor is already looking for Kane. Moments later, they make it to a bar in the
outpost, where Gyp and Bill are having fun by throwing knives at a human-shaped target. The
barwoman tells Kane that the couple is the owner of the bus outside, so he tries to talk to them,
but they get angry because he has interrupted their game. Gyp puts a knife on his neck while
Bill calls him out, so Sy intervenes and tells them Kane is an Exor deflector that just wants
to see his family, he is also willing to pay them twenty grand for the trip. Bill accepts as long as
Kane is able to pass Gyp's test, which consists of getting high and throwing a knife at the target.
Kane's aim is perfect so he passes the test, and the four of them agree to leave and take
a detour to buy some weapons. Another flashback begins in jail. Vim wakes up inside a cage and
sees a monster approaching him, the creature hits his neck with its tongue and injects him
with some kind of dangerous substance. Sy can hear his screaming from another room as he also
wakes up inside a cage, Mourdain is nearby too. He begins to explain Exor's terraforming project to
him and how they are creating these creatures by mutating prisoners, transforming them into
a being capable of evolution and adaptation no matter the environment. Suddenly, Sy disappears
when the floor opens under him, and he shows up in another room where Bostok is waiting for him,
having executed the plan successfully. He has obtained clothes and fake IDs,
including one that says Sy is a nurse, but their preparations are interrupted by Kreat,
who says he has let the devil loose. The prisoners start running away as the creatures begin killing
everyone in the building, including the monster that used to be Vim, who now kills Mourdain.
Bostok and Kreat want to leave for the capital, but Sy tells them he can't go with them because he
wants to go to the opera, so they separate. There is another jump in time, and now Earth can be seen
two years ago. Sy is being told he'll be sent to prison for twenty years, maybe fifteen, and
that he will be painted as a monster because he breached the code and betrayed the public's trust.
Sy thinks nothing matters anymore. Back in the present, Kane and Sy are waiting for the weapons
they ordered. They're brought by two men, Mandel and Joe, who ask for thirty grand as payment.
Kane pays them the amount they want and the group leaves; as soon as they're out of sight,
the men celebrate their new money. After drinking and dancing, they notice something weird in the
distance: it's the monsters, coming to attack them. Joe and Mandel try to defend themselves
by shooting them through the windows, but while they manage to kill a couple, the rest of the
creatures still get inside their shack. Joe sees no other option but to denote a grenade.
Later in the evening, Kane is telling everyone else on the bus about the monsters and the bomb
that will go out in four hours. They have a philosophical talk about how they got there,
destiny and consequences; they also chat about the ethics behind using prisoners for free labor.
When they make it to Osiris a couple of hours later, the city is in utter chaos because
of the monsters attacking at every corner and infecting more humans to mutate them.
The group gets their weapons out and agrees that while Kane goes out to find his daughter with Sy,
Gyp and Bill will provide cover and protect the bus. The couple shoots all the monsters that
come close as Kane and Sy enter the building Indi lives in. They come across one of the neighbors,
who tells them he hasn't seen Indi before letting them go upstairs. They break into the apartment
and find the nanny has died, but Indi is safe because she has been hiding in the closet.
After telling Indi her nanny has gone home to protect her from the truth, the three of them
try to take the stairs, but they're blocked by a monster, so they will have to find another way
out. Meanwhile, Gyp has dragged Bill back inside the bus because he's been hurt by a creature.
She tries to find a first-aid kit to no avail, so she must watch Bill die in her arms.
Kane, Sy and Indi make it to the roof of the building and lock the door behind them. Seeing
as there is no other way out, Sy grabs Indi and jumps off the roof, safely landing on top of the
bus. Kane follows them afterward but almost falls, thankfully Sy grabs him and helps him get on top
of the bus with them. They start hitting the hatch and begging Gyp to open it to let them in,
but Gyp is hesitating because of what happened to Bill. Eventually she gives in and opens the hatch
for them before starting the bus to drive them away as Sy uses a blanket to cover Gyp's body.
Kane explains to his daughter what's happening and apologizes to her for not being in her life more,
Indi accepts to forgive him. He also gives Gyp directions to the bunker and makes sure
everyone learns the code to get inside. In the Exor complex, Lynex is in the process
of starting Protocol 84 when she's informed of a bus approaching one of their bunkers,
so she sends a ship after them. It's Indi that sees it through the window, so Kane makes her
hide before telling Gyp not to take the turn so that the ship doesn't learn where they are going.
After following them for a little while, the ship leaves, and Gyp makes the turn towards the bunker
then. They almost make it, but suddenly, the ship appears in front of them and starts shooting,
leaving only after it runs out of ammo. Gyp and Kane have been killed,
but Sy and Indi are alright. Indi doesn't want to leave her dad but they have no time to waste,
Sy picks her up and takes her off the bus to try and reach the bunker. A monster finds them on the
way and chases them through the caves, managing to infect Sy with its tongue as he shoots it dead.
They find the bunker entrance and Indi inputs the code, both she and Sy successfully get inside
right before the planet gets bombed. However, Sy is starting to transform into a monster,
so he asks Indi to find him something sharp to kill himself. Indi refuses because she
can't do this by herself, so she talks to him and touches him as his body mutates.
Another flashback shows Sy's life as a nurse at a hospital on Earth. He goes through a breakdown
when the patients they bring in are his wife and daughter and neither of them makes it,
so he abuses his position as a nurse to enter the room of the guy that caused the accident
that has killed his family to punch him and try to choke him before security stops him.
Back in the present, many days have passed since the explosion. Two explorers find the
bunker and see Indi in the distance, wearing a spacesuit. They're attacked by Sy, who has
become a monster but has kept some rationality thanks to Indi, and after killing one explorer,
they use the chance to interrogate the other about what's going on out there. The explorer explains
that Flotilla is on its way back to Earth because it was recalled after the disaster, and the story
they're telling everyone is that prisoners revolted and took control of the reactors,
causing a meltdown with no survivors. Indi tells her that if she wants to live, she'll take her
and Sy to the Flotilla undetected; the woman has no other choice but to accept. They board
the explorer's ship and the woman watches Indi and Sy interact through sign language before Indi pets
his head and holds his hand, telling him they're finally going home and saying goodbye to her dad.