The name of Marina Sirtis is immediately associated to the character Counselor Deanna Troi, from "Star Trek: The Next Generation". The cast has other names from Star Trek series. With this nostalgia and expectation of a good sci-fi, the unwary viewer may watch "5th Passenger" like I did. Unfortunately, the story is awful and the screenplay is a mess with a confused conclusion. My vote is two.Title (Brazil): Not Available
... View MoreFor one thing, it's a gathering of Star Trek Alumni. That's not the negative though. All of those actors, do a great job and we end up believing some of it.No, my problem was with the lead, Morgan Lariah. She only has a few credits as an actress in some shorts, she totally lacked experience when butted up against the likes of Armin Shimmerman and Tim Russ and Manu Intiraymi. A lot of her experience is with writing and producing, but I am not familiar with any of that. But as far as this performance goes, some of her delivery was unbelievable. Normally, when actors have a lot of lines, they will have some trick where the script is attached to the back of a coffee cup, or on the ceiling, or on a door. Method actors of the 50's liked to do this, maybe that would have helped Morgan. Sometimes, her delivery was great. But most of the time it was just adequate.The special effects at the beginning, including the control consoles were almost like computer game CGI. But at other times it was decent. So not too many complaints about that, it's about what I expected. And there are some creature effects that were really good, not too much, not too little.If a better actress had taken the character, this would have fared better. But there is an alien incursion thing happening, along with a "The Beast Within" thing going on as well. The underlying story of this film is interesting and maybe believable, but we are besotten on several sides with issues. Including an "Alien meets ICE Agents" event, and some of the interchange between "Citizens" and "Non Citizens" is believable, it just comes down to basic Equality issues. But it's a lot of stuff.The main story arc has a nice twist. Marina Sirtis is playing some type of technician that can play back memories. She comes across a discontinuity in the memory stream. The explanation for this is rather alarming and it is one of the best parts of this film.Keep a lookout for Molly O'Brien as a Nurse, and "Saru" (Doug Jones) as the creator of a navigation program that is supposed to be "better than a person", he gets to swallow that one. The main interaction here, is between Lariah, Russ, Shimmerman, Intiraymi, and David Lim who was in some "Swat" reboot. The Trek actors and the other television actors all do a superb job, but to cast Lariah as the main female lead, was problematic. I can see her in a support role, but it was mainly, too large of a part. She pulled some of it off, but at the cost of the quality of this film.I'm not even sure where this film was broadcast, on the Syfy channel? If it was "UFO" Pictures, it was. a lot of those made-for-Syfi flicks are hit or miss, mostly miss. They are good enough to be entertaining once, I have seen very few of them that had any decent quality- And that was back in 1995-1998. But I am glad they they are still making these low budget boilerplate Sci Fi movies, and some people are gaining experience as well as being employed. So I hope to see the lead actress improve in the nest film I see her in.
... View MoreDo not waste your time or money. It's barely watchable. The acting is flat at best. I had nothing invested in the characters and couldn't have cared less if anything happened to them. CGI is almost Lawnmower Man quality. All that and a terrible script made for a painful watch. Thankfully I had some wine to ease the suffering.
... View MoreThis film is so spectacularly bad, everything about it is appalling - the script, the acting, the special effects, the story - crap, crap, crap, crap. The only redeeming feature is that its not longer, don't waste your time watching the rubbish.
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