It's after a war between two factions that are not mentioned again(so don't worry about remembering their names), and the Magellan, a new spacecraft is on a mission so secret that it's apparently not known to even Captain Badass(Wes Studi... and no, that isn't really what he's called, but it is what he's good at being). When they're attacked by a Black Hole Fart, that kills... some... people... yeah, it's not properly established, and it's not the only thing in this. Anyway, they stand no chance, so they activate the hufrgmh in their craft, which transports them... somewhere, sometime, to the titular Ice Planet. If this sounded confusing, that's just the beginning. This hardly explains *anything* at all. Mostly, when it tries, it just raises more questions(someone call Hermes). Maybe it's trying to outdo Lost. And this, by the way, is a failed TV pilot. How they figured this would successfully launch anything other than the audience from their seats, I have no idea. It doesn't draw you in. Heck, the first dozen or so minutes, this shows these fragments of scenes that are supposed to, I guess, establish characters, environment and technology, and do none of the above, as they are so short and full of new stimuli that we don't know who, what, where or when before it moves on to the next one. FX vary between being so poor that you can't tell what's going on(that giant cloud? It attacks with strobe-lighting... does it hurt anyone? Dunno, you'll have to ask that guy trying to swallow his tongue whilst bathed in a green glow, as the budget evidently didn't allow to *show* if it does or not), and being fine. We do get a brief, kinda cool action sequence near the end of the 80 minute running time, featuring the Interceptors that Protoss Carriers use. Acting is poor. Armor and props in general tend to look goofy. Sets are decent. This has no ending, and with the TV series still not in production after nearly a decade... yeah. There is a little bloody, disturbing and violent content in this. I recommend this to those who gotta see for themselves how confused it is. 1/10

the idea for the movie was not bad, it was just not presented as well as it should have been. in the beginning, the lead up to the "invasion" was a bit rushed, there was no suspense. it was sort of a "here we go again" approach. i think a little more mystery involved in the lead up would have made it a far better movie. for instance if the scientist would have been given a platform to air his concerns, the discovery of the encrypted message, and the building of the ship they found the design of in the ice crystal, prior to, to give a little background. then him pleading with the government to prepare, them shrugging him off and scenes of normal hustle and bustle.after that there is not much they could have done to make the invasion or the aftermath go any different, until they get to the ice planet.it would have been more interesting if the child just happened to be Inuit and could speak enough of the language of the natives to figure out what was going on.where it gets weird is when a crew member decides to go onto the alien ship and is somehow just instantly endowed with godlike powers to defeat the enemy. the lead up to that was missing as well and leaves the viewer wondering who wrote the plot. it comes off corny. it would have been better done if the crew member would have come in contact with something physically maybe to heal his wounds, and his reaction to it started to cause some changes before he decided to board the alien ship.his powers come off more like an episode of power rangers than a movie that wants to be taken seriously.i don't think the budget had anything to do with this being a bad movie, just the delivery of the story.

Recap: A military outpost from earth are attacked without warning by a mysterious and previously unknown enemy. The humans weapons are totally ineffective against this enemy and they must flee. Fortunately a disrespected scientist appears at the last moment picking up the refugees. During their flight they head out to a set of mysterious coordinates that might hold some answers to the attack. Suddenly they experience a jump and end up on an ice planet, way beyond all of known space.Comments: A bold attempt to make a space opera sci-fi movie, but it fails completely. The effects are not at all up to the task, but not everyone can have a big budget and the effects don't really annoy me. Not when the story is a complete mess and can only be regarded as an embarrassing failure. And with the script and story you can't blame on a little budget, a good story is a good story however the amount of money you put into it. And by the same token, no amount of money can save a poor story.The story is a incoherent mess. The best description I could give is that it feels like someone has mixed up the pieces of at least five different jigsaw puzzles and then pulls pieces by random. Different scenes after each other more often than not doesn't really connect to each other, it seems like something totally unexplainable or unmotivated seems to happen in some vain attempt to connect them. And in some cases they director simply seem to give up and fades to black, completely resets the story and starts on another thread.There are numerous different substories, none of which are really resolved. And it is no small questions that each story puts forth, it is aliens, it is the attack, who is the enemy and why did they attack, it is aliens that appear to be able to shift between energy and matter and possess humans, and why do a mysterious tree/computer know ancient Sumerian? Not even the cast seem to be convinced or even aware of what they are acting, in some ways I feel for them. When the writer's poor imagination seem to fizzle some characters just stand around and scream, totally pointlessly. But I'm not even sure that is what annoys me most. It might be the snowboarding, equally lost, American natives that appears on the distant planet mid through the movie, and then just as quickly disappears again. It might be the Han Solo-rip off that completely fails or the energy-being (or whatever it is) that appears like the mother of all Deus Ex Machinas and defeats the enemy by screaming at them. Or it might be that after suffering through the incoherent mess it doesn't even end properly, just with a quote that so begun the Ice Planet Archives.What I try to say is that this was a miserable attempt of making a sci-fi movie. The effects and props where not bad, actually quite decent, but the story is just a little more comprehensive than a mad man's ramblings. Make sure you're getting paid to watch this.2/10

Let me state with explaining the summary, The ending of the movie stinks, thats all i'm going to say not to spoil it.I thought the movie was not bad, I actually enjoyed it I did have a feeling it was meant for TV though, every 30 minutes or so there was a "fade to black" and I actually was waiting for the commercials. The acting in the movie was not really good, I think the person who did the casting in this film was either blind, deaf of stoned out of his skull, the main "bad boy" (when you see the movie you'll know who I mean) had a weird accent, reminded me of Antonio Banderas, maybe he was trying to be I don't know, but when you look beyond that it was an great movie (for a B flick). still gave it 5 out of 10 (not feeling generous today)