verminhater

Could easily be a B movie but reasonable (not good, just reasonable) cgi hauls this dirge up to bang average. That the cgi is the best thing about this is is pretty damning of everything else. The story is hackneyed and predictable and the acting is not going to impress any drama coach. It appears the writer is at least a fan of sci-fi as there's a lot of other movies mixed in here. The ranger briefing is straight out of Aliens, the basic plot from I-Robot and some of the music from terminator. The casting of Lopez is an enigma as she has always struggled with the task yet here she plays someone who struggles with people so perhaps like Arnie playing an emotionless terminator she has found a niche in playing an emotionless human.

What we have here is a film made to an algorithmic formula that will add nothing to your brain but will take a couple of hours from it. I'd not be surprised if an AI wasn't instrumental in cobbling this together and if it wasn't then those who were responsible would do well to claim it was and let it take the blame. Let this be a lesson that actual talent is needed to make a good film, not just letting someone program a large language AI to study several previous sci-fi films and regurgitate them with a shiny new suit on.

One mega budget film after another with sound so badly mixed for tv as to be almost unlistenable. Thunderous one minute and can't hear quiet the next. The only way I could watch it is with the remote in my hand permanently turning it up and down. I'm trying to watch it on a very high end tv and I may as well have the cheapest tv in the shop for the sound issues.

The film itself is ok and nothing more. It's nothing new with a comedically ott main baddy and chiselled heroes. Yet more women kicking the backsides of male opponents twice their size and baddie grunts who couldn't hit a barn door from 5 yards with a bazooka add to the cliché reality failures.

It's just a seven samurai remake in a scifi setting and with a budget that size I'd have expected more.

Once again a vastly expensive spaceship is crewed by the most dysfunctional reprobates that could be dredged up. Time after time we see this hackneyed format. I'd love to see a competent crew just once.

On top of that there's the comedically low budget with tracksuits for spacesuits and "helmets" that require a false sealing sound to be played on each use. Add in the budget cgi too. To round it off some parts of the ship have magic gravity.

I could live with the low cost production if I wasn't treated to the moronic crew aspect. I appreciate it's harder to write a good story around a competent crew so find a writer that can and pay them instead of this formulaic repeat.