recommended

Good concept, poorly executed.

Disappointment for a huge fan!

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

I was originally planning to give this a 6 for trying, alas, rethinking does force me to decrease to 5... I don't think it deserves lower, but it also does not deserve higher either. Had this been 45-60min in length, then maybe.Scrappy security team protects last fertile woman in existence from an alien creature doggedly pursuing them. I won't call them soldiers, since they make a couple decisions that distinctly mark them untrained in that regard... But overall the actors do well enough with what they got.The backstory is told in an unnecessary flashback and could've easily been recounted by the characters in-action. The backstory is pretty basic and works mostly as an excuse to force the events upon our protagonists, exactly like in older Shoot-Em-Up -games, and is thus pretty irrelevant to the actual happenings on-screen.What happens, then? Here we come into the main pro AND con of the movie: most of it is simply crawling through very, VERY cramped spaces and while it ups the claustrophobia, it also gets rather dull to watch and I constantly had the feeling that Crawl or Die would've worked better if it were shorter.Creature itself is a cheap Alien rip-off, though that doesn't matter much to me, as I prefer cheap but usually workable practical effects to cheap and usually crappy CGI.All in all, I'm not regretting buying the DVD on cheap, but also don't think I'll watch it again anytime soon! Had the writer-director kept this at the length of approx a TV episode, it could've worked better, so my verdict will be "Nice try, try again!", especially if he's planning to continue Tank's story in the future. =)

I made sure to check mark the "contains spoilers," but quite frankly, it's sarcastically. I mean this movie is literally people crawling through tubes for like an hour. I mean I knew what I was getting into, but I thought there would be variation and excitement. It was the same tube over and over, and sometimes it had dirt in it...for an hour! After 10 minutes of crawling through a tube I started jumping 5 minutes ahead with the remote and burned through the rest of the movie and yeah its just crawling through a tube. The best way to watch this movie would be on fast forward 4x.

**Spoilers** The first time I saw this I was a little bit underwhelmed due to the lack of script/dialogue (apart from the speech about a girl being the only remaining fertile female left), but then realised that once "Tank" was the only survivor and she was going from tunnel to tunnel with ever decreasing space, I realised that dialogue wasn't necessary and it became a total tension festival for her (and for the viewer).I don't think I have ever seen a film where the feeling of claustrophobia has been done so well (even The Descent didn't manage that) and when you think of the extremely limited budget, it is even more impressive. At times I was just begging for her to be able to get some air/space/anything to stop the nightmare!Nicole Alonso & Oklahoma Ward ought to be very proud of what they have created & I, for one, can't wait for the continuation of the story.My work colleagues all agreed that it was an incredibly tense film & very good.Watch it, stick with it & be impressed ..... I was!

Just how on earth is this receiving the high marks on IMDb? I can only imagine it's friends and family of the film maker and cast that are writing them because the reviews do not reflect the quality of this film. It's a badly scripted and badly realised mish mash of influences such as Alien, Aliens and The Descent but without any of the things that made those memorable such as a cohesive plot or character development. The characters are so one dimensional as to be non existent and are mostly confined to a couple of sentences along with a grunt or two. The main protagonist is a poor copy of Tank Girl and seems to think that simply curling your lip is an accurate portrayal of being tough.The plot has very big holes and inconsistencies which I don't believe were deliberate but rather that the writer couldn't be bothered to actually be doing with such things and believe that the action would carry it along. That may have been true if the pacing didn't veer from confused to drawn out. This wouldn't work even as a poorly executed video game. The one thing it does do fairly reasonably is a claustrophobic cinematography but this is a one trick pony and wears thin very quickly. If this had been edited down to a 20 minute short it may have had its merits but at its current length this film shows its inadquecies in a woeful manner for all to see. They say imitation is the highest form of flattery but in this case I really would change that to insult. I don't mind no budget films and love experimental, challenging, indie and art house films but this fails on every level leaving the viewer robbed of the time watching this that could have been used more constructively - for example watching paint dry.