By no stretch of the imagination do I love David Ayer but I do have some appreciation for his work. I thoroughly enjoyed the little seen Harsh Times and while Training Day had it’s problems, I didn’t find the scrip to be one of them. The same can’t be said for Street Kings (our review) which was a bombastic disappointment but then, you can’t win them all. So how does a mediocre director with a hit/miss track record land behind the camera of a sci-fi film?

Now don’t get yourself confused. Ayer isn’t stepping behind the lens of the apparently dormant ”Y: The Last Man” adaptation (I’m sure fans of the comic are breathing a sigh of relief). This Last Man is a completely different beast about a “hardened captain assigned to protect an outpost on a distant planet [who] must lead a group of young, inexperienced American soldiers in battle against an alien race.” Nothing new, actually sounds a little like a whole lot of other movies (for some reason, the ones that spring instantly to mind are Doom and Star Ship Troopers) but what else is new.

It’ll be interesting to see how Ayer manages, if at all, to incorporate the “tough streets” sensibility that has been at the centre of his previous work into a sci-fi story and though I’m not excited per say, I am curious. It’s unavoidable with the words “distant planet” and “alien race” mentioned in the description.