Osiris (2025) Review

Osiris (2025) Review

When a group of trained soldiers discover we’re not alone in the universe, Linda Hamilton is the only thing standing between them and certain death. A team of Special Forces commandos wake up on an alien spacecraft with no memory of how they arrived, and quickly discover they are being hunted by a merciless alien race.

Starring Max Martini (CONTACT), Brianna Hildebrand (DEADPOOL), Linds Edwards (HOMEFRONT) LaMonica Garrett (1883) and Linda Hamilton (THE TERMINATOR), Osiris is written by William Kaufman (SHRAPNEL) and Paul Reichelt (THE CHANNEL) and is directed by Kaufman.

OSIRIS has a couple of things that weigh up in its favour, it looks good for a film produced on a limited budget and its use of practical effects is welcome. Sure, the aliens are all too obviously men in costumes however that just adds to its throwback charm. Otherwise, writer/director William Kaufman’s film fails to make good on its B-movie set-up. There is next to no characterisation or originality. In a nutshell OSIRIS is ALIENS meets PREDATOR with well staged but overlong action sequences that lack any dynamic tension.

If you’re going to homage James Cameron’s ALIENS, which is both an absolute classic and near flawless entertainment, then you really do have to up your game, unfortunately that is not the case here with OSIRIS. Instead, key moments from Cameron’s 1986 classic are slotted into the narrative and rather than elicit a favourable response they instead result in a groan. Linda Hamilton – whose inclusion is yet another nod to James Cameron’s work, this time THE TERMINATOR franchise – drops into the mix at around an hour into the film but her appearance comes too late to save the day as this film was already dead-on-arrival.

For all the carnage and goo there is no throbbing, driving dynamic with either the film’s direction or script to elevate this above being a near endless homage to ALIENS, here are just a few examples – a soldier freaks out just like Hicks from ALIENS but without the late great Bill Paxton’s charisma or charm, the soldiers come across a young female survivor who tells the guys all that they are going to die, just like Newt in ALIENS, and there is an end moment that rifts on ALIENS’ Bishop getting lanced through his chest. The film’s final scene changes tact nodding instead to the climatic twist from the original 1968 PLANET OF THE APES and yet again you wish OSIRIS was more its own beast rather than constantly nodding to others.

OSIRIS is available on Digital Platforms 28 July and on DVD & Blu-ray 1 September. Distributed by Signature Entertainment

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