Dead Space: Aftermath

Dead Space: Aftermath (2011) is a movie in my DVD collection that I recently watched again on Tubi. The storyline follows a lost space craft and a rescue ship that is sent to investigate. Shortly after arriving onboard the missing ship it's determined nothing is wrong with the ship but everyone who was onboard is missing. Can the rescue team find the survivors and figure out what happened?

This movie is directed by Mike Disa (Space Dogs) and contains the voices of Christopher Judge (The Dark Knight), Ricardo Chavira (Piranha 3D), Gwendoline Yeo (Star Wars: Clone Wars), Curt Cornelius (NCIS) and Graham McTavish (The Hobbit).

The animation for this is a bit uneven with the people just being okay but the infected, action scenes and people in their gear look amazing. I will say the animation and weapons are better than the previous film. The initial storyline of the father chasing his daughter is excellent. The infected imitating the non-infected is very well done also. The ending is entertaining and the movie has an Event Horizon feel to it in a lot of ways.

Overall this isn't perfect but is an entertaining animated science fiction/horror picture. I would score this a 6.5-7/10 and recommend seeing it once.

Not being familiar with any of the "Dead Space" games, or the first animated movie, I have nothing to compare this to, so this is all by what I thought of this 2011 animation.

"Dead Space: Aftermath" had a nice enough story and it was easy to follow. The story is about a small group of four survivors who are rescued after a tragic occurrence, but now they have to tell their stories to people who seem to have little regards for their well-being. As I said, not being familiar with anything prior to this animated movie, then I have no idea how true or far from the original plot lines this movie is. The storyline was nice and well told.

However, the solid storyline was brought down tremendously as they had opted to use various styles of animation and art styles. Most of these, sadly enough, were not in my personal liking, and thus it brought down the enjoyment of the movie for me. Especially the CGI animation, that was just horrendous. It looked like it was released before they had applied the finishing touches to it. In my opinion, then "Dead Space: Aftermath" would have fared better had they opted to stay with just one style of art and animation (in my opinion, the style they used when they were telling doctor Cho's story).

As for the voice acting, well then I think they really did manage to put together a good group of people for the voice acting. So that was really working out well for the movie.

I am sure that this 2011 animated movie is a great thing for fans of the games, but it failed to fully ensnare and captivate me. I am giving "Dead Space: Aftermath" a 5/10 rating because of the story alone, the different art styles and animation styles was the knife that killed it off for me.

This was better than what the reviews from others seemed to be. Honestly I enjoyed the movie and I will point out the Pros of the movie and the cons

Pros: +First 3 Animations from the flashbacks where great (wasnt a big fan of the last one but it was fine)

+Excellent Story to help fill the gap between the first game and second game.

+ Voice Acting was good, not great but good.

Cons: - The CGI animation was terrible

Other Notes: Yeah yeah I just felt lazy and shorted the review by doing a Pro and Con thing, which is somewhat unusual for a movie review.

I'll quickly explain why I gave it a somewhat average rating. The main reason was because of the CGI Animation, I swear to god if they did the regular animation (any of the first 3 flashback)instead, it would of been bumped to an 7 or 8. I can't believe they even considered using that bad of an animation. Otherwise everything else was good about the movie.

Last thing, the fourth animation I wasn't particularly fond of. The main reason? Everyone looked like they where on steroids or something....and to me that gives an ugly appearance.

But Overall I really did enjoy the movie, it definitely something worth watching especially if your a Dead Space fan.

The 2D animation looks great in this film, and it pairs well with the grotesque nature of the story and it's hyperviolent contents, but then there's this awful... AWFUL 3D animation to represent the present day, and it's so, so, so, so, bad. Just an eyesore. I don't know who's idea that is, or what kind of budget constraints may have forced the team's hand, but the results are terrible to look at.

I've played the games, but wasn't religiously hooked by them. The first feature "Downfall" was decent, but "Aftermath" would only be more of the same. Where this entry fits in would be a sequel to "Dead Space" the EA video game and its animated feature prequel "Dead Space: Downfall". What are happening in "Aftermath" are the events that occur before the second game "Dead Space 2". Earth has lost contact with the Ishimura ship and engineer Isaac Clarke, but now it's the responder ship the USG O'Bannon with only four crew members returning and we get the perspective views of these survivors of what just occurred on this mission in locating and securing an alien artefact. Secrets are kept, shady dealings are instigated and true intentions are revealed. You know… corporations with their big plans as they interrogate the four survivors. Its pulp, but entertaining… albeit the compounded plot is kind of a mish mash of ideas, which don't entirely gel and has been done numerous times before. You could say it's rather talky with theories chucked about. The first feature "Downfall" stuck to one type of animation, but this one experimented with a mixture of styles which I wasn't much of a fan. However it was just as graphic and ruthless with its nightmarish illustrations, but the atmospheric eeriness and brute intensity only lasted in pockets due to it not taking a straightforward approach with its narrative. Pretty much it starts at the end, to retell the story from form four different viewpoints mixing the animation with that. The voice work is acceptably good. "Aftermath" is nothing special, but just another chapter to the "Dead Space" universe.

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