Near Extinction: Shangri-La: This is a weird one. Post-apocalypse. The world's frozen. There's a war between the surviving humans and the konglings. This is all established in a voiceover narration before the movie starts. The action starts in media res, with no idea who anybody is, or what they're doing. But they feel like a party of PCs. Everyone has a distinct appearance and quirky personality, a backstory with pathos, and a schtick or powers. But while the party is established fairly quickly, who is fighting who and why isn't clear. The start is really confusing. It's not clear the movie is going anywhere, it just feels like a random mess.
This is a fault, but it's also clearly a deliberate choice made by the movie's creators. There are a couple major twists, and they're holding back details to set up big reveals. But they do clear up most of the mess as the movie progresses, relying very heavily on flashbacks to both establish characters, and to establish the world. And there's a lot of world. Factions, complicated backstory, different allies, different enemies, a MacGuffin hunt or three, and so on. Again, it feels like an RPG, in particular someone's homebrew setting. I'm not going to pretend it all makes sense, but if you accept the the internal logic (lasers caused an ice age?), the plot mostly comes together. It's not great, but it is interesting in a weird way.
But even so, it feels like the pilot episode in a series. There's plot, but it's fairly light. The movie is mostly about establishing the world, the characters, and the mission; ends at the start of a quest rather than at the end; and there are a lot of loose ends, or just bizarre things that aren't explained (why everyone sleeps together half naked, for instance).
Definitely low budget. All the secret bases and high tech labs that are clearly just warehouses or empty offices. But not zero budget. They have practical and CGI special effects, and they're not complete garbage. Acting isn't amazing, but mostly seems serviceable. I'd watch a sequel.