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Old 08-06-2019, 04:10 AM   #5
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Rewatching it, there were a few problems I had.

1. The plot was great. It was lifted right from Doom. But that just made me sad that I wasn't watching a good Doom movie.

2. The talent was there. Sam Neil and Laurence Fishburne are good actors. The story, however, was just not that compelling. Everything felt forced, and I couldn't find a reason to care for any of the characters.

3. I don't believe the characters when they make fatal choices. Very little of the things going on seem to make any sense, even with suspension of disbelief.

It starts off with a pretty lousy recon team being flown out to recover a top secret, state-of-the-art warp engine. That wouldn't be cause to mobilize a whole load of researchers? They send one guy to give it a once over? And with a skeleton crew to assist? AND the skeleton crew is completely ignorant of the whole scenario until they arrive? AND the place they're going has a high risk of incident?

Plus, half the crew is psychologically damaged PRIOR to this incredibly important mission to recover beyond cutting edge tech. What the hell were they thinking? It's not like this was George Jetson breaking down out there. This was the first ship capable of interstellar flight. And they send out the equivalent of Triple A to give it a once over?
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