The first player to reach a set number of points, usually 10, wins. Players get points as their settlements grow. People play as settlers, each try to build holdings while trading and getting resources. The Settlers of Catan was designed by Klaus Teuber and first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos) as Die Siedler von Catan. More than one person plays Catan at a time. In any case, there is no reason to watch this film unless you're a social justice activist.The Settlers of Catan, sometimes called Catan or Settlers for short, is a board game. Besides, I'd appreciate it a little more if it wasn't so slow and long. They also wanted to have a GERTY-like character from Moon (2009), but its motivation is unclear since it doesn't talk, and we can't know for sure is it just a tool or it's actually sentient. Many things they set up just get abandoned, like the safe scene. It would've been fine as a background to our characters moving along the story. The dialogue is fine, the acting is done well, some of the scenes are memorable, but they cannot exist outside of an actual story.

I thought there would be a twist, and I would've appreciated even an unoriginal one. Up to around 50 minutes into the film, I didn't see any problems with it whatsoever. Men are the scourge not only of the Earth but Mars as well. So we don't need to know who these people are, why they are on Mars, and what is going on in general. Thus, they don't really care if you buy the whole Mars thing with the breathable atmosphere (inside a magic dome), a huge Earth in the sky, messed up gravity, perfect plants, vegetables, cloning pigs from a single specimen, etc. It's just another basic metaphor for growing up and moving into adult life. They set up a mystery but then abandon it because there is nothing there. This is why we are not given any details whatsoever, just a vague explanation of what supposedly is going on. There is a setting, but there is no story. This is mostly done to ensure critical acclaim and some film festival awards. I've seen this done before, 'The Power (2021)', 'For All Mankind' (2019), 'Shadow in the Cloud' (2020), 'Amulet' (2020) are good examples of this. You take popular social and political ideas and try to disguise your empty shell of a film as a horror or a thriller with sci-fi elements. 'Settlers' follows a formula that is quite popular these days.

The settlers wiki