The Good Bits1.Firstly, when watching this you have to remember this is a low budget movie. It's never going to have the slick VFX of blockbusters like the new Star Trek films. That said, I think both the VFX and SFX were really good. I totally bought that these people were in deep space on a ship. The id chips and the personal visual displays were particularly good. 2.You can tell Jason Momoa is having a good time playing the bad guy - and he does a solid job. Adrian Holmes also puts in a good performance as the corrupt warden in charge of the group. 3. The opening 20-30 minutes are well paced and set up the story well. The first part of the film creates an unsettlingly clinical atmosphere that unfortunately is not sustained throughout the film. The ending wraps things off nicely and feels like a satisfactory conclusion for the audience. The Not So Good Bits1. Characterisation. I felt if you removed several of the debug crew from the film it would not affect the plot in any way e.g. the characters Samson Connoly and Lara Riley felt like they were extraneous. 2. The fact that all but one of the female characters stripped down to their underwear, for generally unknown and spurious reasons, while none of the men so much as rolled up their sleeves. It made this film feel like, despite it's futuristic storyline, the writing belongs to history bin.
... View MoreThe movie was okay. I do not have high expectations anyway. It is a kind of movie that you just play while you do something else. But I always press MUTE every time Jadyn Wong would talk. She has a voice that makes you wanna smack her face just to shut her up. I think it was because her jumpsuit was too tight. She forces her character to act "tough" but it just made me laugh because her voice contradicts her "tough" act. I just wanted her killed so that I won't hear her talk. When it did happen, I was utterly relieved. Overall, the movie was nice for a low-budget sci-fi movie. Just wished they did not hire Jadyn Wong for the part though. Again, her voice was annoying.
... View Morethis is the worst movie i have ever seen. and i like the actor that directed this movie, he has been in some awesome movies. but maybe he should stick to acting, no offence. but i do mean offence though because this is literally the worst movie i have ever seen in my life, and I've seen superman 3. i don't understand how they could have made a movie so bad to be honest. I'm speechless. I'm speechless that there was a talented creative person at the helm of the worst movie i have ever literally seen in my life. this movie is only better than watching paint dry. whats wrong with it? everything. acting is the worst i have ever seen, the music is the worst i have ever heard, the cinematography, if you can call it that, is atrocious. and when i say the worst i have ever seen or heard, that is precisely what i mean here. watching this film is like watching a film on a high dose of acid, or when you try to watch TV after smoking copious amounts of crack. if you want to feel like you lost your mind, go ahead, watch this movie, it will give you a glimpse into what its like to be insane or on heavy dose of insanity inducing drugs. i am not joking at all, either.
... View More8 of 10. A dystopia setup for young, attractive, anti-system hackers to attempt to overcome. A virtual reality sci-fi set in space on a spaceship that needs, fittingly, debugging. The debugging, to add a further twist, is being done by hackers convicted as criminals who are serving there sentences as a combination of community service and separation/imprisonment from the rest of civilization.Space science fiction is essentially a virtual experience at this point, so combining it with computers, hacking, and virtual reality makes it more immersive and you have to wonder whether the characters are real or virtual. Throw in some criminals and an out of control bio-AI that's been setup by the military, and you have the horror element.This isn't a Star Trek space fantasy sci-fi, an alien fantasy, or a time travel fable. One of the missing elements is why there are ships in space at all, what purpose if any they're serving society. That's left to the imagination, but the ending has a smooth, unforced sequel setup for filling in more of the future it happens in.
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