Dead Space: Aftermath

The writing didn't make any sense. The story had nothing to do with the original. By the plot of this one I'd be surprised that anyone on the crew of this movie saw the original movie.

In the Dead space - Downfall it was more a good vs. evil kind of theme, but in aftermath it just seemed like another poorly written 80's space horror movie. There was no resolve, the properties of artifact were rewritten for this movie in a less entertaining, and less interesting way.

Whatever, I'm kinda cheesed that I wasted time watching this. I was hoping for some kind of cohesive connection between the two movies and I got nothing.

The plot is generally interesting, following the very fun ship-gets-taken-over-by-monsters formula. As well, the 2D animation for the first three characters' memories were great and meshed very well with the grotesque violence. However, the last character's 2D animation seemed to be a bit disconnected, completely removing the most horrifying features of the necromorphs and reducing them to generic monsters. Even worse was the 3D animated segments that interlace the entire film: they're an eyesore. To think a film so ugly could come out in 2011 is upsetting.

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.

"I need a test subject."

Dead Space: Aftermath, is a prequel to, Dead Space 2, and a sequel to, Dead Space: Downfall.

The story is about a group of survivors that are taken in and interrogated where people want to know about the artifact they discovered.

The voice acting and the 2D animation were good. But everything else, was bad.

The CG animation was terrible, the story wasn't that good and the movie was mostly boring.

In the end, you're better off playing the video game's or watching, Dead Space: Downfall.

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.