Cast: Eiza Gonzalez, Aaron Paul, Iko Uwais
Director: Flying Lotus
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 95 min

 “Ash” is a free-flowing film, much like a music video. It has a narrative structure that is unorthodox. Visuals that seemingly have no connection to the main story creep in tangentially. The film does not have a typical narrative. Writer-director Flying Lotus intercuts the sci-fi narrative with hair-raising visuals and robust action sequences as memories of the past start sliding in to give context to what is happening in the present.

 “Ash” tells a familiar story of sci-fi discovery gone wrong. Riya (Eiza González) wakes up at a station on a distant planet with no memory. When she looks around she sees mutilated corpses, flickering lights, and a computer system that won’t stop mentioning that there’s an “unusual life force detected”. Riya is groggy. She understands that something vicious has occurred, stumbling around the dead bodies of Captain Adhi (Iko Uwais), Kevin (Beluah Koale), and Davis (Flying Lotus).