With good actors and impressive special effects, what could possibly go wrong?
Plenty, as it turns out. While many reviewers here are impressing with their knowledge of films like Alien and too many others to mention I'm not sure this film belongs in such company. I watched it a few years back when the effects were sufficient to carry the thinness of the plot. Not this time.
A team of space rescuers is sent on a mysterious mission with Sam Neill to keep them company. Turns out he knows plenty about the monster ship that's turned up years after its disappearence. A team ventures on board and it's here that they start to draw their inspiration from Scooby-doo by...
splitting up.
They're faced with many different Monsters from the Id. (Nearly referenced another, better film there.) Sometimes they survive their encounters with the monsters.. And sometimes they don't.
Apparently about half an hour of pure gore and gruesomeness was cut from the runtime but what's left certainly isn't family friendly.
So then they recuperate from the monster encounter for about five minutes then their inner Velma and Fred speak up..
"Let's split up."
And so it goes. On and.. On.
4/10. We didn't last, even the relatively modest runtime. Suggest you maybe don't bother.
Plenty, as it turns out. While many reviewers here are impressing with their knowledge of films like Alien and too many others to mention I'm not sure this film belongs in such company. I watched it a few years back when the effects were sufficient to carry the thinness of the plot. Not this time.
A team of space rescuers is sent on a mysterious mission with Sam Neill to keep them company. Turns out he knows plenty about the monster ship that's turned up years after its disappearence. A team ventures on board and it's here that they start to draw their inspiration from Scooby-doo by...
splitting up.
They're faced with many different Monsters from the Id. (Nearly referenced another, better film there.) Sometimes they survive their encounters with the monsters.. And sometimes they don't.
Apparently about half an hour of pure gore and gruesomeness was cut from the runtime but what's left certainly isn't family friendly.
So then they recuperate from the monster encounter for about five minutes then their inner Velma and Fred speak up..
"Let's split up."
And so it goes. On and.. On.
4/10. We didn't last, even the relatively modest runtime. Suggest you maybe don't bother.