I love sci-fi flicks, always have and always will. But this movie reminded me of a video game that was made into a movie.I had to rate it with 5 stars because the special effects were impressive and the movie held my attention from start to finish.Our heroes, a crack team of commandos, led by two leaders who don't get along, perhaps due to the fact that they were on opposite sides at one time and are forced by a common cause to work together.Their mission is to penetrate a villa that is full of hidden traps and snares to retrieve a precious artifact.The first problem with this movie is in how this DVD was packaged. I couldn't help but to notice that the two stars are made to look as unphotogenic as possible. You would never guess that the female, Vivian Wu is one of the most beautiful actresses. She was depicted on the cover as a plain and unappealing Oriental, which is not so.Vivian Wu plays the part of "Diana", a beautiful hologram who wins the respect of one leader and the hatred of the other as the team penetrates the villa in pursuit of what it was the team was assigned to locate. The special effects are well done and since the story takes place in the future, this allows a lot of leeway as to what is believable and what is not. Remember, this is science fiction, not science fact.The movie is entertaining, but exactly the type of movie that I would want to watch over and over again.Rent the movie, if you must. If you're a sci-fi fan, you won't be disappointed. But don't buy it unless it is on sale.

This isn't a bad movie, as much as it is a bland movie.The plot has much more to do with human "melodrama" than it does with any particular science fiction element. The story could be told in the middle ages as much as in the future.It is watchable, and there are some fairly attractive images. I'd watch it again, but mostly only if something better wasn't on. I gave it a 7 but it's probably only a 5 or so.

What is left of Planet Earth is populated by a few poor and starving rag-tag survivors. They must eat bugs and insects, or whatever, after a poison war, or something, has nearly wiped out all human civilization. In these dark times, one of the few people on Earth still able to live in comfort, we will call him the All Knowing Big Boss, has a great quest to prevent some secret spore seeds from being released into the air. It seems that the All Knowing Big Boss is the last person on Earth that knows that these spores even exist. The spores are located far away from any living soul, and they are highly protected by many layers of deadly defense systems. The All Knowing Big Boss wants the secret spores to remain in their secret protected containers. So, he makes a plan to send in a macho action team to remove the spore containers from all of the protective systems and secret location. Sending people to the location of secret spores makes them no longer a secret. Sending people to disable all of the protective systems makes it possible for the spores to be easily released into the air. How about letting sleeping dogs lie?! The one pleasant feature of ENCRYPT is the radiant and elegant Vivian Wu. As the unremarkable macho action team members drop off with mechanically paced predictable timing, engaging Vivian Wu's charm makes acceptable the plot idea of her old employer wanting her so much. She is an object of love, an object of desire -- a very believable concept!Fans of Vivian Wu may want to check out an outstanding B-movie she is in from a couple years back called DINNER RUSH. DINNER RUSH is highly recommended. ENCRYPT is not.

While Encrypt was watchable due to its ok production quality, the feeling this left me with was just how low quality the plot was and that this production was just made for the sake of making a sci-fi production.The challenges faced by the protagonists during the show seemed like they were inserted just to pad out its length. In addition they weren't generally very interesting or convincing as actually being much of a challenge except to serve as an excuse to remove cast members. While the ending and direction of the storyline were moderately interesting, what role various cast members were going to play was pretty predictable given their shallow dialog and tacky names.How on earth dreck written as badly as this actually gets made I have to wonder.