beckett-69658
Joined Apr 2020
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It seems increasingly that the term "Sky Original" is code for just avoid at all costs.
I happened upon this by chance and saw Monaghan, Clarke and Courtney and figured it'd be watchable at the very least. Oh, how wrong could I have been?? The script is clichéd, lacks pace, lacks depth or any real research into the subject matter. It tries to build to a big "reveal" but you've already seen it a thousand times in other movies and it's been telegraphed throughout this one. It makes so little sense as a film, it's actually painful. At least the 3 named stars do put in a decent fist of it even if the words they're forced to speak are utter dishwater.
My favourite moment was the resurrection of the Star Trek Generations set where the heroine makes her "sat phone" call from. Surprised to see it in such good nick after over 30 years. Also, I assume the budget for visual effects was used in restoring this set as the explosion animations were hilariously awful.
To call it a B movie is an insult to B movies. It's not even a C movie. Solid E-, see me after class.
I happened upon this by chance and saw Monaghan, Clarke and Courtney and figured it'd be watchable at the very least. Oh, how wrong could I have been?? The script is clichéd, lacks pace, lacks depth or any real research into the subject matter. It tries to build to a big "reveal" but you've already seen it a thousand times in other movies and it's been telegraphed throughout this one. It makes so little sense as a film, it's actually painful. At least the 3 named stars do put in a decent fist of it even if the words they're forced to speak are utter dishwater.
My favourite moment was the resurrection of the Star Trek Generations set where the heroine makes her "sat phone" call from. Surprised to see it in such good nick after over 30 years. Also, I assume the budget for visual effects was used in restoring this set as the explosion animations were hilariously awful.
To call it a B movie is an insult to B movies. It's not even a C movie. Solid E-, see me after class.
The recipe was all there. A pretty talented bunch of actors, a crew who clearly know how to turn out a good looking, slick production and a director who had a fair amount of skill crash into a script which doesn't know what it is trying to be. Atmospheric in all the right ways but completely lacking in development of plot or characters. It's so close to being a solid 7 or 8 but the writing weighs it down with exposition and shonky dialogue.
Certainly not a one star job, as I've seen MANY of those, but it's just missing the mark in too many areas to recommend.
Certainly not a one star job, as I've seen MANY of those, but it's just missing the mark in too many areas to recommend.