chazwyman

If you like starwars or startrek you may well not like this. No lasers, no death stars, killing robots etc.. Space Station environmental catastrophe and a string of moral dilemmas. This is a slow burn small cast cerebral sc-fi story in the category of the possible.

The lack of super stars and gives this a sense of reality, rather than someone like George Cluney taking up all the space, we have George Blagden a competent actors last seen in Vikings and the contemplative monk.

The visuals were good, and the set design was realistic and not at all like the absurd lenslfare nightmares of recent Startrek efforts, all adds to the realism.

Most of you will not like it. When people seek out sci-fi they tend to excpect kids stuff (fantasy and adventure.) As for myslef, a life long science fiction reader, this was a welome change. More Silent Running than Buck Rodgers.

Great story, great acting. All the elements you would want from such a film. I've seen them all Goodfellas, Sopranos, Godfather..ect. So was dying to see this.

The Ageing-down film processing does not work well enough. Maybe in another decade of computer development this technique will work better, but DeNero just looked like an old man with make-up and blacked hair. Beyond that there was a deeper problem, Old men cannot walk like young men. No matter how good an actor - and these guys are the best, you cannot hide the depletions that the years have on your musculature. Old people walk with stiffness and economy, through the necessity of aches and pains. This shows through.

Moments where you see the artifice, throw your attention away fro the story and back to reality. Seeing an apparently young man walk like an octogenarian is like seeing a brown Isaac Newton. A black Cleopatra or a white Othello. It breaks a sacred contract that the film maker has with the audience: the suspension of disbelief.

It's often a sign of a poor effort when most of the first episode is pictures of cars going to and from the airport. There was some cash spent here, so scenic views of the desert, Paris, London. But how on earth makes the call to thorw cahs away on a dul poorly written effort like this when so many great ideas are binned, despite cult followings - this hsall have no such following.

Dull Mummy (with attractive swarthy French doc)with blind fat boy off to Paris for sight saving surgery; whilst Daddy (with attractive Uk give offiial) is off to the desert run by dubious dirty foreigners with guns, to investigate "infected crude oil" which will end life on earth as we know it. What could possibly go wrong?

Here's what: Adolescent plot; jiuvenile script; actors lacking in.personality.

Not to self.

"Amaozon Exclusive" means no one else wanted to buy it.