Just a poorly animated and terribly written rip-off of so many space set horrors. Most notably the Alien saga. The animation is jolty and is certainly missing frames. This doesn't work well during the action scenes and there is no fluidity. The characters are complete abominations. The protagonist is one of the most unlikable twerps I've ever seen on film. She questions her superiors, disobeys orders, risks humanities existence, talks down to everyone, and solves all her problems by punching people. After which, she then expects them to play along. How we were ever expected to root for such a character is way beyond me. Not only this, but during one attack scene none of the soldiers fire their weapons. Big multi-armed zombie aliens are attacking her friends and everyone stands around like impotent retards. Finally we have a script that is painful in every sense of the word. The dialog is so cringe worthy. "I'm not a hero, just a man." Vomit. Everything the main character says is filled with anger and venom, so you wonder how she achieved anything in her career. The film gets a few points for gore, as it was great to see these characters ripped apart, as that meant I didn't have to look or listen to them anymore.

Having completed the Dead Space game by EA recently, when I heard there was a prequel movie I gained a bit of interest. Naturally, my expectations were low, as this is based on a video game, and those movies usually turn out horribly (Resident Evil, Alone in the Dark, Far Cry, House of the Dead, Doom, just to name a few).Renting it from Blockbuster, I came home and popped the disk into my DVD player. What ensued was an hour's worth of blood, gore, some more blood, and not much else; I'll even go on to say that it was even worse than most Sci-Fi Saturday night movies. Character development is virtually non-existent, and you won't really care about what happens to the main characters because they are just, well, there to be killed off in many "creative" fashions.The film begins as an artifact (or "The Marker" as it's called in the movie and game) is found on the surface of a planet by the mining colony, Aegis 7. It is brought onto a spaceship, the USG Ishimura as people start beginning to have hallucinations and develop violent behavior. As main character Alyssa Vincent and her security team investigate, strange and savage mutants that used to be people attack. Apparently, "The Marker" unleashes a sort of alien infection that kills people and mutates dead tissue, turning them into a sort of zombie or mutant. The rest of the movie is basically a gorefest as Vincent and her team try to activate an emergency distress beacon and find some means of escape.Overall, you should skip this movie even if you were a fan of the game. Bad voice acting, poor animation, predictable plot, and lack of character development really soils this stinker. However, if you happened to be a gorehound and like extremely violent and over-the-top movies, you'll love this.

This anime was far more entertaining than I'd expected, a pleasant surprise. The animation has a Nickelodeon quality about it and that's the only resemblance to anything nick has ever produced. It's liberal with deep space (surprise!,) aliens, blood, bullets, horror and... bashing... and hacking... and CG, which is good.It's dumb fun.Some other movies that come to mind after watching this are Event Horizon, Silent Hill, When they Cry and... Avatar. Many others too, though honestly, this plot and setting, they feel new.P.S. There is some impressive animation, kudos to the artists.

When I first heard about this movie, I thought it was an anime got really excited because I love anime and Dead Space is an awesome game. I waited first to complete the game before I got the movie, so I did. And what do I get for my waiting? Pure crap, that' what. It was not anime for one, it was regular American animation. Since the game is 18+ I would have at least expect some cool more adult-like animation, but no. The animation part of this film is completely awful, I can't stand it. OK I could handle the 3d animation even though they were not that good. But the character animations are just awful, I mean it's like watching Disney Channel. And Im guessing that's what audience they are looking for since I can't imagine an adult enjoying this movie. They voice acting was good, that's pretty much the only thing I don't have a complaint on. The dialogue was pretty lame, typical American tough guy crap, it's so cliché and overdone. So, I guess they were trying to please with film is the gamer audience and the animation audience. Well I don't watch much American animation so I can't really say anything about that, but I doubt the US would succeed on making as good animation as Japan. But as a gamer, Im disappointed, Dead Space is a really good game I enjoyed playing it a lot and feel that it's on of the few great accomplishments done by the EA. So as a gamer Im really disappointed in this movie, so unless you're a hardcore Dead Space fan I would avoid it.