With its saturated, DayGlo palette, the debut feature from first-time British film-maker Alex Taylor is certainly striking. There is, at least, a directorial vision. Unfortunately, incoherent plotting and pretentious, overwrought dialogue make that vision difficult to root for. Lucidia (Alexa Davies) mysteriously disappears, leaving her friends – a quirky misfit gang of cyberpunk teens, including one with a BDSM fetish – to believe she’s been abducted by aliens (if that’s a metaphor, I’ve no idea what for). I don’t see real teens buying this. With its Thai beach Full Moon Party aesthetic and cast of curious youths, it all feels a bit 2009. Like Skins, without the stakes.
