Just saw a rather decent low-budg sci-fi film... "HUNTER PREY" directed by Sandy Collora (notable for making Batman fan-films before this)
It's a Peculiarly similar movie to the aforementiton "Enemy Mind."
A group of aliens carrying a prisoner crash on a desert planet. One alien hunts the prisoner. They talk, try to outsmart eachother, question eachother's politics.
I'm not saying that he copied the film (or vice versa). It seems a case of convergent evolution... similar adaptations to similar problems.
- No money for sets? Shoot in the scenic desert
- No money for actors? Limit it to 2 or 3 people.
- Hard to set up a conflict with just two people? Make it prisoner/hunter. Easy.
And it just goes to show what care and competence can do (Hunter Prey) with very little compared to whackness and superwhackness can do (Enemy Mind).