The Osiris Child doesn't stand alone and has little hope of actually continuing beyond its dangling promise of an ending. However, there's a charm and audacity in its ambitions that can't be ignored, either.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 1, 2020

The Osiris Child is definitely a science-fiction epic with a family drama at its center. It feels like the start to something bigger, a world in which many adventures could be had.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 14, 2020

The Osiris Child plays as a derivative space western, with escalating excursions into gunfights that are just video game shoot-em-ups. Despite feeling this movie should work, it doesn't.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 4, 2018

There's enough potential here to suggest a sequel isn't the worst idea provided Abbess and Cachia learn from their mistakes.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 7, 2017

It might take place in another galaxy, but the clichés in this incoherent science-fiction thriller come straight from Earth.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2017

Shane Abbess' familiar but diverting indie sci-fi action-adventure details the intergalactic consequences of corporate malfeasance.

Full Review | Oct 6, 2017

The Osiris Child is surprisingly smart and polished.

Full Review | Oct 6, 2017

As far as it goes, the first film is an enjoyable space opera but, as a stand-alone, it doesn't work.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 5, 2017

Urgent performances, appealing visual effects, and a sense of genre love coming together to create an energetic, pulpy feature, with Abbess succeeding where many other have tried and failed.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 5, 2017

A perfectly serviceable B-movie.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2017

A cellblock riot, a spaceship dogfight, a bar brawl, a hospital trauma, violent encounters with C.G.I. beasts - there is little Mr. Abbess won't toss into this delirious, overheated stew.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2017

A series of scenes that cut away from interesting developments to flashbacks with a vengeance, as though "interesting developments" killed director Shane Abbess' dog.

Full Review | Oct 4, 2017

It's a movie fans of nostalgic science fiction should really enjoy.

Full Review | Oct 2, 2017

... you have something that falls somewhere between Serenity and a Syfy Original Movie, which might sound like a bit of an insult but I mean it as a compliment.

Full Review | Oct 2, 2017

With all its faults, The Osiris Child is still a solid movie that shows the potential for what can be possible in Australian cinema, just as long as you have the passion, ambition and creativity driving it.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 14, 2017

One of the clear objectives of this film is to show how even low-budget sc-fi fare can deliver Star Wars standard visuals, and on that score it succeeds admirably.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 27, 2017

An impressively made and well executed Australian sci-fi action thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 22, 2017

The movie, with its uniform American accents for the international market, is constantly torn between the generic and the original.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 21, 2017

In the end it all boils down to the good guys being confronted by some nasty, though not entirely convincing, creatures.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 19, 2017

The Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume One is an eye-opener for what's possible in Australian cinema when you have a maverick with filmmaking chops driving it.

Full Review | May 10, 2017