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I came upon this almost by accident and rolled my eyes at it till I saw Claudia black who has some credibility, listed in the cast. She does a good job with the material and gives a great performance throughout. Her performance gives her character some depth which in truth, the screenplay seems to miss somewhat, but she can't singlehandedly carry this one off. The script needs another once over with a fresh pair of eyes if I'm honest, as much of the dialogue is like something out of a comic book, cliched, meaningless and stilted.

The story is a reasonably good one if a little predictable, but the premise is sound. However there simply isn't enough going on to keep the interest focused, and the lengthy scenes and uneventful screenplay lend little to maintain interest.

The special effects, CGI are all decent, nothing to write home about, but they don't let the movie down the way the script and story line do. I'm always a little sceptical when the writer and director are the same individual since what is perceived in creation isn't always the best way to flesh it out on film, and here my concerns are warranted. One or the other is my rule of thumb and rarely does it bode well for a creation with a single person doing both.

I think much of the films forced ambiance are due to a lacking in direction, and some of the characters are way off base. 'Grey' and 'Sen' played by Black and Blackwood are a constant source of contention with no clear command structure seemingly in place. Its an odd way to spin a relationship in space with a mission of such importance, and it neither works here nor rings true. There are other weird glitches throughout the movie and it serves only to kink the smooth flow of events as they unfold on-screen. I found it most disconcerting.

Blackwood delivers the whole compliment of his lines through clenched teeth as though he's stemming the overflow of some long held rage with great difficulty. His stiff, stoic delivery makes him stand out as the weak talent in this cast of less than ten people. Again I think this is more due to bad direction rather than a failing of his talent, but irrespective, the movie suffers as a result. David O'hara by contrast plays his character to a 'T' and the other cast members with more minor roles are accomplished enough, but forgettable.

On the whole it's not too bad, but there just isn't enough going on here to bring off the story, and some of the cliched developments really do it a disservice.

I think 5 is an honest and fair score, for what is at best, a 'watchable' movie. Its not a big production so I don't want to be overly critical knowing it couldn't have been an easy one to produce, but I think the scant flesh on the carcass of this one is its big problem. It really needed some fleshing out before being served up to feast.

This is another entry in the "let's rid Earth of people we hate" space missions. A crew is shot into space to investigate a mysterious sphere.

The characters are obnoxious, offensive, and tedious. Three of the crew (a woman and two men) freak out when answers aren't immediately forthcoming even before they approach their destination. If they received any training at all, it was on the order of a two hour seminar at DeVry. There isn't one relatable character, which eliminates any chance of tension or engagement with the proceedings.

The acting is terrible, but whether that is due to the failings of actor or script is unclear. The dialog is largely superfluous, adding little or nothing to the story. Before they reach the sphere one character sagely says, in about a thousand words, "we have find out what the sphere is". Well, duh! That's the point of entire mission. Perhaps that dude on the ground should have briefed them before launching them into space. Then again, only one guy on earth is interested in their progress, and his instructions are basically: keep going.

They saved a lot of money by not having a lighting budget. The spaceship has about five watts of lighting for some reason. Everyone stumbles around in the dark.

I won't spoil the "thrilling" conclusion to the mystery. But suffice it to say you won't care one way or the other.

Three stars only because I didn't turn it off. Everything else adds a grand total of zero stars. Which puts it two stars above the horrendous Rings of Power, fake reviews notwithstanding. Three stars.

In the future, the Earth is being crushed by over-population. A mysterious black sphere is orbiting Mars and tycoon Vance sends the spaceship Achilles to investigate. Karla Grey (Claudia Black) is one of the six person crew waking up from hibernation. The sphere starts repetitively transmitting one word, Deus.

This is a British sci-fi film that is a bit above TV level but not quite theatrical level. The first half has elements of sci-fi horror. That's what I'm expecting when one of them starts killing. It's sort of like Event Horizon with less gore. The writing is a little clunky. The most obvious sign is that everybody keeps calling Karla Grey by her full name. It's not dialogue. It's a writer writing down words. Then it delivers its big reveal. Without spoiling, I can say that I appreciate the attempt. It reminds me of an old sci-fi magazine story with a twist. It doesn't really work in the real, but it has hints of something solid.

Wooden performances, stilted dialogues, stupid reactions, the whole gamut of idiotic clichés of amateurs trying to make something just wishes itself Scifi... Unbelievable, with the participation of two quality actors like Claudia Black and David O'Hara who should know better what's scifi and movies ! Poor lighting, subpar effects, Messianic blather...vague references to the "Event Horizon..." everything delivered in a stupid accent.... The poor sod acting the captain could not act himself out of a paper bag... he tries to act menacing and all manly, but he is only pathetic ... Incredible waste of time... not one shred of novelty, of originality or of ideas. Not one endearing quality in the whole shebang... The Black Ball of sh...!!!

Just finished Deus after going in blind.

The whole thing felt like a Dr Who episode, just with tons of extra padding.

The plot was quite sloppy, and the effects had a "made for TV" feeling to them. The acting was pretty meh throughout, with some strange choices being made at times (when the main character learns a major plot twist their response is pretty emotionless).

They had access to a pretty good cast, but even that was wasted.

Some of the twists throughout were kind of dumb, and the rest were painfully obvious. Many of the plot points were needless and didnt add anything to the story at all.

I'm a sucker for sci-fi but this just felt very underdeveloped, like it was a second draft that they greenlit without any rework.

This could easily have been shrunk down to a 30 minute tv episode (with commercials) and still provided all the same info.

Not really worth the time unfortunately.

Now, I am not really a big fan of the sci-fi genre, but I will watch movies of said genre when given the opportunity. And with "Deus" being a movie that I had never heard about, nor seen, of course I opted to sit down and watch what writer and director Steve Stone had to offer.

And while "Deus" definitely had an interesting cover/poster and synopsis, the movie just wasn't really all that interesting. Sure, "Deus" was watchable, but it just wasn't a particularly thrilling or overly entertaining movie, as the storyline was somewhat flaccid and bland.

The acting performances in "Deus" were adequate. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, which is usually something I enjoy when watching movies. But the actors and actresses had precious little to work with here in terms of a properly written storyline, so they didn't really have much of any chance to unfold themselves on the screen.

Visually then "Deus" was good. I liked the special effects and the CGI. And it definitely felt like the movie took place deep in space near Mars. And that added something to the movie, which was otherwise struggling with a mediocre script.

I am sure that hardcore sci-fi fans might get a kick out of a movie such as "Deus" from writer and director Steve Stone. However, as a casual viewer, then "Deus" was not an impressive or memorable movie experience.

My rating of "Deus" lands on a four out of ten stars.

2022 has brought many bad and awful movies. But this is one of most boring ones. The acting, the plot, the scenery everything stinks in this movie. It's so boring, that you start playing on your smartphone while watching this crap.

A mysterious black sphere is discovered in the orbit of Mars. The Achilles is sent to investigate. After the six-person crew wake from eight months hibernation, the Sphere is transmitting a single word in every Earth language ever known - Deus. And thats it. Nothing happens. Utter boredom. In 1979 they could make a classic like Alien. And now, in 2022 43 years later, this crap is being made. Avoid.

You can tell newb writer and director Steve Stone's inexperience was evident in this film, especially failing to direct his cast properly. Even Claudia Black looked lost in some scenes, and Richard Blackwood as the commander was just horrible and unconvincing in every scene, not to mention annoying. His demeanor, (lack of) facial expressions and body language, tone of voice and dialogue was just all wrong.

Conceptually the story was interesting, but it suffered plot and technical issues, and the slow pacing with many long dragged out and unnecessary scenes made the normally comfortable 90 min runtime feel much longer. It needed more story to fill in the time, or cut down to a short film. Much of the dialogue felt very amateurish, especially the AI, and writing could've used more suspense and action instead of constant cam views and cheesy cheap random shots.

The visuals however were decent for a low budget B film, and the score was excellent, especially for a B film, where the score is usually too loud, constant, annoying and unfitting.

As a huge sci-fi fan, I still enjoyed it, as I've seen much worse, and seeing it through till the end says a lot. For a low budget B film from a newb filmmaker, I'd say it's a decent one-time watch if you're a sci-fi fan. Had the actors been better cast and/or directed, this film would've been much better. Still, a generous 6/10 from me.

This movie is what I consider a true sci-fi story - it explored the future of science and technology, and applied them in a very fascinating way to speculate on issues that we see in our own world today.

This is what the genre does in its true form, and we can all benefit from it in ways that transcend mere thrills and entertainment. Scifi is mentally stimulating and should provoke thought and ideas, which Deus certainly does.

I won't spoil the story, but suffice to say, I think the sudden appearance of bad reviews here on IMDB is making a clear statement about how social credit and paid perceptions are deployed, rather than honestly evaluating the film itself.

PS: it was great to see Claudia Black in a space ship again! <3.

Not being a massive budget film, I was quite pleased with it.

I had two 'big' problems watching this, the first was "Si Rubin", the whole character and performance were pretty bad... The second problem I had was with the writing.

I feel that few more drafts would have perhaps helped, at times it really trails off... Now, few things really stood out like the cinematography and editing, both remarkable.

In fact I'd like to know on which camera it was shot on, please add it on IMDb technical space.

My dearest compliments on set design as well as costumes, they were incredibly good!

Another positive thing was the soundtrack as well as sound effects, both captivating.

Definetely a big step up from Mr. Stone's previous films. Keep it up!

P. S. Casting was very good as well!

Deep sigh...

I get it, everybody wants to try to make a brilliant scifi movie with NO money and without any talent available. Does it have a chance of succeeding? No ofcourse not. But these kind of cheaply produced B-movies keep gettting made anyway.

Who could be watching these kind of failures? It is definitely only suited for a television audience that is half awake, half asleep in front of the telly. I prefer being deep asleep, but I have watched it anyway, because I am such a fool for scifi movies that I will try out any new one.

Let's get to the point, is it any good? NO. Ofcourse not.

The bad: the actors are C-listed actors. Not even B-listed, but C-listed. Total lack of any kind of talent or charisma.. Totally bland.

More bad: the scifi sets are cheap fakes. The story is just another ripoff.

To be avoided. Not even terrible in a funny way. Just plain terrible...

OK. So we have to be realistic... SciFi films don't exactly must be scientifically accurate (yeah.. Darth Vader isn't real, right?). But at least show some coherence. A sphere is found in Mars orbit in a future far enough to hibernate people and wake them back, and build a really big ship with artificial gravity, then they took 8 months to reach Mars? I am pretty sure SpaceX will do better in a few years... And using hibernation for an 8 months trip in such a large ship with a handful of crewmates? Are you kidding me?

Cast was fairly good, and I am sure they spent a good deal of money in this film, yet the script is poor, to say at least. Don't waste your time as I wasted mine.

Is this some kind of millionaires tax write off? It's definitely not a billionaires tax write off!!!

I watched until the terrible ending out of disbelief, surely this film has some redeeming quality, It has none except the lighting is alright and the camera is in focus.

Everything else is a pile of steaming excrement. .

Writing, acting, direction, editing, costumes are as bad as the sets. The captain of a giant space craft sits in a gaming chair, that's the level across the board.

Richard Blackwood brings his usual stilted wooden performance, but no one else does any better.

I always wondered why Claudia Black never had a career like her co-star in Pitch Black, then I remembered she has been in quite a lot of toot like this.

How does someone get the funding to make this? Let me know who will pay me to make an awful film.

If you love sci-fi like I do you will probably enjoy this movie. The actors are not going to win any Oscars but that is par for the course with sci-fi. The story is original enough to keep your attention unless sci-fi is not your kind of movie.

The special effects are mostly done well, a few scenes (like in an elevator) look like they were filmed in front of a green screen but the rest is done pretty well. Some scenes could have been done better but overall this movie is good for a single viewing.

The writing was good but it could have been better, things like gravity are mostly ignored in this movie. This is a mystery movie and by the end you will know everything that happened, viewers are not left guessing for the most part.

Well I suppose I ought to have read the cast list before shelling out £7.50 to watch this in a cinema. Had I done so, I would have probably been less surprised at just how poor this is. The is a sort of hybrid of "Star Trek V" (1989) with bits of "Stargate SG-1" thrown in too. The whole premiss centres upon a crew of astronauts who are sent to investigate a mysterious sphere orbiting the over-populated Earth and pinging out a coded message that suggests it might actually be God! Captained by MTVs very own Richard Blackwood, it is pretty clear that something nefarious is afoot. To solve that problem, we turn to Claudia Black "Karla" and her muscle-mate "Ulph" (David O'Hara) who are sent to investigate and, of course, it all goes a bit pear-shaped. Hovering above their investigation is their gazillionaire boss "Vance" (Phil Davis in a particularly scruffy -looking flannel/ill-fitting blazer combo) who adds precisely no menace to the proceedings at all. I never quite forgave Black for, in my view, totally trashing what had hitherto been an entertaining sci-fi series in "SG-1", she is a wooden and unremarkable actress who lives up to that description here. Admittedly, the dialogue is just as wooden and O'Hara only has the one gear which does all it needs to, but hardly challenges anyone. The plot is thin and the characterisations left largely on the page (or postcard) as the story lumbers on. The visual effects are easily the best thing about this otherwise derivative television movie that will be remembered next week by nobody.

I gave a rating of 10 because of various haters who didn't even watch the movie and gave it a low rating. Good script, drama, solid role of the main protagonist.

CGI effects nothing spectacular but quite satisfactory.

A small complaint, other episodic roles without significance, some even meaningless. The dramatization of the story itself is very good, the duration of the film is optimal, just enough so that there is no saturation and monotony among the viewers, which is a problem with most films today, regardless of the budgets that the production uses.

That's all folks from me for now.👍 Real grade 😁for this film is 7 stars.

The first half of the film is definitely a chore to watch but it does get somewhat better in the second half.

The main things about Deus that suck include most of the dialog, some of the actors, some of the set design (for example: hexagon shaped doors), and the terrible accent for the computer AI. Also, the ending felt a little abrupt.

The graphics are pretty good and the story itself isn't terrible.

Claudia Black is, of course, the films saving grace.

Considering how awful most low budget movies have been lately, this one is entertaining.

If you can manage the first half, it turns out to not be a waste of time.

Deus is in a very similar vein to Event Horizon, both in terms of its plot and the end result. Both are science fiction movies trying to be somewhat philosophical about the possibility of life outside of the known universe. And while both are trying to be that, neither of them really achieve what they set out to.

The big difference is that Deus isn't ever going to have the cult following Event Horizon does, nor does it deserve to. It doesn't go deep enough into its themes to really be as thought provoking as it thinks it is, and it lacks the horror elements to keep horror fans enthused.

That being said, Deus isn't a complete waste. It does have decent production values for something of its budget, and the acting isn't godawful like you might expect. It also never really insists upon itself, so while it's not really as deep as it thinks it is, it's also never particularly obnoxious about it. And while it isn't deep, the times it tries to be do give you something to think about, so you can occasionally see what the movie might be like if it were actually good.

Really, I feel like Deus' biggest sin is that it never really breaks away from its television feel. This feels like an episode of television made somewhere between the late '90s and mid '00s by a production team that was competent, but never brilliant. The movie may have even achieved what it set out to be if this had been what it was because you could talk about the themes in the broader context of the show.

As is, I think this is worth watching if you're looking for a movie that could be good but never quite makes it. It's worth watching if you're a fan of Event Horizon especially, or just a fan of the genre in general. Otherwise, skip it--it won't have anything for you otherwise.

Bad Movie move on

Gold Finch productions...wtf?

I only gave this a 2 star becouse the two leading actors were decent and I remember them in some decent movies in the past, Claudia Black and David O'Hara and at least someone is trying to pump out a sci fy movie but it was HORRIBLE.

I read in one of these reviews below that this was better then Event Horizon, Sunshine or Sphere, FARTHEST from the truth there, those were all classic's and had awesome actors and actually good story lines. This is not even in the same league. I had to write this review to correct that right away becouse I listened to that review and was like wow I gotta check this out and was so udderly dumbfounded on what this guy was talking about and wasted my time watching this.

So once again the shakey free hand camera style is hott garbage, why can't they just put the damn camera on a stand. Anytime you see that you know the movie is gonna be low budget trash.

The overall story they were trying to go for would have been decent but bad acting and dry character build up was horrible and it just ruined any emotional connection to the movie.

Don't waste your space opera addiction on this please trust me and wait for someone to make something decent like the awesome movies of the 90's where cgi was bad but they made up for it with good story telling and awesome actor's just like Event Horizon!