This review contains many spoilers and this is your final warning. These spoilers include spoilers to the show "Firefly".
All my reviews start with what I expected, what the movie is and what I thought of it.
I expected this movie to start where the TV show left off and produce a meaningful conclusion since the idiots at Fox cancelled the show after only one season.
Unfortunately the movie decided to alter many of the best parts of the show replacing quality with cheap low quality sci-fi crap. Some of the characters look like funny ghouls and zombies from the 50's B movies. Why? I cannot think of a better way to write this review, then going in chronological order of the movie.
Instead of using previous villains which were great characters and few killed off, the movie adds a new villain who reminds me of a bad sci-fi villain. Why not bring back the mysterious agents or the bounty hunter, who was not killed in the final show and what about Niska? Reavers, who were scary and mysterious in the show, are laughable and idiotic zombies in the movie. The last scene is joke because reavers are supposed to be regular people who last their minds, not brainless ghouls without any hand-eye coordination. The only image the show provides of a reaver is the only survivor of a ship attacked by them and he mutilates himself to look like one. He was scary because he still looked human, but very crazy. This is what reavers in the movie should have looked like, not the brainless ghoul look. My last major gripe was what happened to River. In the show she is extremely intelligent and able to use her intelligence to utilize guns, ships and enjoys dancing. The movie changes her character into the Hulk, but instead of anger, subliminal messages make her kill everyone. This once again leads me back to the climax of the movie. It can be summarized by "The Matrix" meets "Night of the Living Dead". Neither of which belong in this movie. All that said the movie is not all bad. It does start exactly where the show left off and other then River and the villain everyone else is the same. In fact, the parts between the beginning with the annoying villain and idiotic ending are quite good other than River going all Hulk. I recommend everyone who enjoyed the show to watch the movie, but do not watch the movie if you have not seen the show. The show is much better and watching the movie first will ruin the show. In my rating system 1-10 and 1 is the worst movie, 10 is perfect and 5 is average. This movie is a 6/10. Above average. It is a shame because if it was as good as the show I would rate it at least an 8/10.
All my reviews start with what I expected, what the movie is and what I thought of it.
I expected this movie to start where the TV show left off and produce a meaningful conclusion since the idiots at Fox cancelled the show after only one season.
Unfortunately the movie decided to alter many of the best parts of the show replacing quality with cheap low quality sci-fi crap. Some of the characters look like funny ghouls and zombies from the 50's B movies. Why? I cannot think of a better way to write this review, then going in chronological order of the movie.
Instead of using previous villains which were great characters and few killed off, the movie adds a new villain who reminds me of a bad sci-fi villain. Why not bring back the mysterious agents or the bounty hunter, who was not killed in the final show and what about Niska? Reavers, who were scary and mysterious in the show, are laughable and idiotic zombies in the movie. The last scene is joke because reavers are supposed to be regular people who last their minds, not brainless ghouls without any hand-eye coordination. The only image the show provides of a reaver is the only survivor of a ship attacked by them and he mutilates himself to look like one. He was scary because he still looked human, but very crazy. This is what reavers in the movie should have looked like, not the brainless ghoul look. My last major gripe was what happened to River. In the show she is extremely intelligent and able to use her intelligence to utilize guns, ships and enjoys dancing. The movie changes her character into the Hulk, but instead of anger, subliminal messages make her kill everyone. This once again leads me back to the climax of the movie. It can be summarized by "The Matrix" meets "Night of the Living Dead". Neither of which belong in this movie. All that said the movie is not all bad. It does start exactly where the show left off and other then River and the villain everyone else is the same. In fact, the parts between the beginning with the annoying villain and idiotic ending are quite good other than River going all Hulk. I recommend everyone who enjoyed the show to watch the movie, but do not watch the movie if you have not seen the show. The show is much better and watching the movie first will ruin the show. In my rating system 1-10 and 1 is the worst movie, 10 is perfect and 5 is average. This movie is a 6/10. Above average. It is a shame because if it was as good as the show I would rate it at least an 8/10.