This is a film that looks a million dollars in CFI effects and should have been a big hit, but it fails to deliver due to bad casting. Mostly from the main leading little man who has no likeability to make the role work.
He has no charm, no charisma, no emotional range, and just comes off like he's trying to be an overconfident egotistical Keanu Reeves type of incantation while mostly looking stoned the whole time.
It completly destroys the suspension of beleif and just going with he's some sort of expert military specialist of some kind in what appears to be a late teens body. I dunno, maybe this things based on a book that explains it more, but this is a movie, and gives no explanation why the two protagonists are of a younger age and hold ranks of space colonel's or whatever the are.
The plot is that a space station hosting inhabitants of 8 thousand different alien species has a mystery to solve who a group of unknown theives are causing panic. So Captain Fantastic and his sidekick Miss Generic Personality are called in to track down these rouges and put a stop to it. A bunch of stuff happens in between that's merely special effects driven until the mystery is revealed, and we're supposed to care about the two lead characters' lives.
Unfortunately, there's 0 chemistry between the actors, and its impossible to invest in caring about them one way or the other. They are empty, shallow, and worst of all, highly predictable.
A bunch of other stuff happens, and there is really very little character development for anyone. It's one of those typical films where within 5 minutes, one character meets another, a battle happens, they win, another happens, one dies, and we have to witness some forced emotional tear jerker scene as one gives there final speech before dying in the others arms, but has no effect on the audience because they only met 5 mins ago, and were supposed to just beleive these two formed a close bond in this time? Gimmie a break.
It probably could've been fleshed out better as a series, rather than a single movie, as long as they get decent actors to play the roles of the most uncharacteristic and dull leading roles I've seen in a long time. I was actually just irritated by them by the end of the film and my only thought was to point the finger directly at the male lead. He really was the worst choice for that character.
He has no charm, no charisma, no emotional range, and just comes off like he's trying to be an overconfident egotistical Keanu Reeves type of incantation while mostly looking stoned the whole time.
It completly destroys the suspension of beleif and just going with he's some sort of expert military specialist of some kind in what appears to be a late teens body. I dunno, maybe this things based on a book that explains it more, but this is a movie, and gives no explanation why the two protagonists are of a younger age and hold ranks of space colonel's or whatever the are.
The plot is that a space station hosting inhabitants of 8 thousand different alien species has a mystery to solve who a group of unknown theives are causing panic. So Captain Fantastic and his sidekick Miss Generic Personality are called in to track down these rouges and put a stop to it. A bunch of stuff happens in between that's merely special effects driven until the mystery is revealed, and we're supposed to care about the two lead characters' lives.
Unfortunately, there's 0 chemistry between the actors, and its impossible to invest in caring about them one way or the other. They are empty, shallow, and worst of all, highly predictable.
A bunch of other stuff happens, and there is really very little character development for anyone. It's one of those typical films where within 5 minutes, one character meets another, a battle happens, they win, another happens, one dies, and we have to witness some forced emotional tear jerker scene as one gives there final speech before dying in the others arms, but has no effect on the audience because they only met 5 mins ago, and were supposed to just beleive these two formed a close bond in this time? Gimmie a break.
It probably could've been fleshed out better as a series, rather than a single movie, as long as they get decent actors to play the roles of the most uncharacteristic and dull leading roles I've seen in a long time. I was actually just irritated by them by the end of the film and my only thought was to point the finger directly at the male lead. He really was the worst choice for that character.
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