On the one hand, the premise and
story are a clever adoption of old fairy tale tropes (the
pauper princess, heroic warrior savior, evil quasi-relatives, completing three trials, etc.) dressed up as modern big - budget sci - fi.
Barrage is a fantastic
story, a sci - fi action piece that feels like it borrows conceptually a little bit from classics such as Mark Twain's The Prince and the
Pauper, yet with its own fun science fiction flare to it.