Blood Machines

The plot is thin, almost nonexistent (2/10) acting is over and wooden. Visual style is very original, creative and amazing (10/10). Beats standard unimaginative Marvel blockbusters in that respect.

This feels more like demo than finished film. Creator should get good writer, story and maybe director before creating the next movie. There is only so far you can go with only visuals.

This needed to be 30 minutes overall. The vfx and atmosphere were great, but there was no coherent story. I still didn't understand what was really going on in there.

Appallingly bad dialogue,cookie cutter tropes and some overdirected performances all played dead straight for 50minutes. As a piece of storytelling it's simply terrible,but the effects look cool and well made and Carpenter Brut's music slaps. It'll give it a 5 for those as a pity score cause otherwise this is really dull and pathetic to watch.

IMO it would've been much better if it were released without all the dialog and interaction between the characters. As a music video akin to Turbo Killer, it's really nice. As a full-fledged movie, it's pretty bad.

The gist of Blood Machines is "men abusive, men bad; women gentle; women good."

I know that seems like a crude way to sum up the film, but that's pretty much how it plays out.

The special effects -- for this to be a Kickstarted film -- really do put a lot of bigger budget Hollywood films to shame. It's mostly to do with the intricate attention to detail and physics, which make the world feel weighty and dangerous. It's just such a shame that what little dialogue we do get and what little character development we do see take place is basically to push a pro-feminist message.

It would have been so much cooler had the film been about actual villains trying to capture the souls of ships, and unbeknownst to the bounty hunters, they had no idea that the ships they were collecting had souls. At least then they could have molded a sympathetic redemption arc around the bounty hunters, having the Captain warm to the audience and to the space druid, Corey.

But instead the first season of three episodes beats audiences over the head with what's essentially a feminist revenge tale against men and their destructive weapons.

The '6' out of '10' ratings is basically for the effects, visual presentation and for Carpenter Brut's undeniably awesome soundtrack.

It's quite unfortunate because I really had high hopes for this one.