Monsters

This movie intrigued me enough to write my first review. If you can keep focused you can follow through all the way to the end, or maybe the beginning. They call this The Last Starship, but the Starship doesn't actually do anything but land during the closing credits. I came here to see if there was a sequel to unravel the what seemed to be the beginnings of a plot.

Where things get lost is there are at least a dozen sides in this warfare movie. You never quite knew who was friend, enemy, distrusted ally, ally of necessity, sleeper agent, turncoat or zombie. If you try very hard you can follow a few of the threads, but I'm certain I missed even more. Basically everyone is trying to kill you or your group as you travel through a hostile wasteland on a mission known only to the main characters, but each of the main characters seems to serve a different master with different orders. In the end the only unifying thread is survival, but you are never quite sure who you should be routing for to survive. I think I understood what was going on by the end, but in the end all of the threads were left untied.

If you can stomach a movie where the plot is wildly fragmented, you don't know friend from foe, characters are minimally developed, dialog is muddled with alternating languages, and lots of people get killed then you might be OK with this. It isn't all bad. That might be too generous. It is all bad, and it is nearly unwatchable, but as the credits rolled I found myself wanting more.

If they could have taken this one movie and instead made a TV series out of it, where they could have devoted one episode to properly explore each of the characters and factions, it might have worked.

By the end I did not feel that I had wasted my time, but I did feel that I had only seen a small part of a much larger story.

Probably a record for convoluted plot. They were still explaining the setup 2/3 of the way through the movie. Nothing made any sense. Perhaps they took a 7 book anthology and collapsed into a single movie. Cheesy special effects. Worth watching only if you've exhausted all movies with a higher rating.

Yeah. I was a bit put off by their dyspeptic dystopia; but there were hints of a really decent story, unknown actors heroically-carrying a mortally-wounded, somewhat shallow script and much, much more...

Frankly, the whole thing reminded me of a bad buffet restaurant. You all know one. The place with 150 inedible items on the menu; but the pie is good...

If they got the writers to edit the screenplay, stopped wasting so much ammo, decided what the movie was about, it could have been fun.

If this were a high school project for a drama or A/V group it would be commendable on some levels. Offering it for paid viewing however is near criminal. As another user has noted, a very incongruous and saturated use of profanity - not that there is anything wrong with heavy profanity usage per se, as long as it is integral and flowing - detracts heavily from being able to watch this already nigh-unwatchable flick. Poor continuity, scripting, editing, special effects, use of stock footage ... you get the idea.

I love watching sci-fi movies new or old, and am probably more willing to suspend belief for many aspects of a bad movie than others: but this was just bad without virtually any saving graces. One exception is that there was one actress who I could see even in this atrocity had potential.

Full disclosure ... I FFWD'd through some of the movie and in the end this review IS based on seeing probably only 2/3rds of the whole thing. However, I gritted my teeth so that I could say I gave it as fair a review as it deserved before recommending you avoid wasting the 10 minutes it took before you turned it off.

There's a charming campiness to this film that is reminiscent of Dr. Who and A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Yes, the SFX are cheesy, but in a way that works. The world created and the characters and their dress that inhabit it is bizarrely quirky and imaginative.

As another reviewer mentioned however, it attempts to condense too much into too little time therefore you're constantly being thrust into sudden changes in direction and storyline.