Ice Planet

If not for the special effects and the sets, I would have given this movie not a 3 but a 1. There's hardly any explanation what the story or the plot are about. I have seen the whole movie and I really have no clue why this movie was made. Or what this movie was about.

Weird combination of plot less Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Star Wars, Galaxy Quest, Stargate, Starship Orion, Starship Troopers and a whole lot of other space opera with space fights, silly uniforms, actors who have no idea what role they are supposed to be playing or what the texts mean they are saying. Technobabble galore... (even the subsonic).

The end was weird, was it an end? What happened there? It was a clueless ending. One thing was clear though: it was supposed to be followed by a TV series. I'm glad it wasn't.

I lost 85 minutes of my life. No idea why I did that.

The film it's self was not that bad ... I have seen worst . I think the problem with this movie , was that it was written for a pilot series and therefore you had to many elements and not enough character development.

Also the film was a German production and you just don't have the budget that you would receive in an American Produced Si-Fi .....And what do you mean that there were not any known Actors.... What about ...Wes Studi he is probably one of the best Native American actors that there is... films like "Heat" etc

German-Canadian producers hurry up to bring two foreigners leading stars the native American Wes Study, James O'Shea and the nisei Sab Shimono aiming for entering in the profitable American market, all remainder casting come together in this ultra-complex Science Fiction without mention the date whereby it takes place, an inscrutable post-apocalyptic screenplay which just 10% of mankind came to die by fallout, so many spaceships surround the earth planet.

Out of the blue a kind the menacing asteroid reaches at our solar system and it somehow sent the earth spaceship no another dimension ends up in an Ice Planet, there some ancient natives were found, also a strange frozen thee provides some unknown info about earthlings future, anyway the viewers stayed puzzled trying understanding such weirdo offering, aside some fine early CGI that soften the suffering allied a some gorgeous girls around.

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First watch: 2008 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD / Rating: 4.

Just saw this one. Although I was really expecting a bad movie, in the beginning I thought I was wrong. Some very well done fx fooled me for a few minutes... It's a shame too. The acting was OK most of the time, the photography is good, the special effects are really decent, and the only thing lacking was a coherent plot that would make sense. The end is *really* incomprehensible and it looks as though it's a pilot movie for a series or something. Not worth watching unless you're really into this stuff.

My granny always said, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything. That's a pretty tall order for this movie. If you can get past the incomprehensible plot, the ridiculous costumes, the cheesy sets, the 1990s looking "special effects," the awful dialogue, and especially, the terrible acting, you will eventually reach the end. So the best thing I can say about "Ice Planet" is that it does end. BUT - be warned - that's 83 minutes of your life you'll never get back.

Happily, this was not the swan song of the late director, Winrich Colby, who did direct some quality and memorable episodes of Star Trek (TNG, DS9, Voyager). Rest In Peace.