A low-budget scifi movie from the Asylum, even if you look through blue glasses, this is still a poor movie. Although you can expect that shortcuts have to be made with a low budget, wearing a dive suit instead of a space suit is completely understandable. However, at the start of the first scene twice open skin is flashed (1:12, 1:45) in outer space. That is even before the three actors are introduced and the story is started.
Luckily, the cinematography (blue haze of Pandar), clothing (colonel is overdressed, whereas the head of disease control is dressed like a 90ish porn star going to the office) and special effects aren't the most laughable part of the movie. The dialogues are even worse. The sentences are illogical and the acting differs. Some of the actors are playing it a more normal way, others are completely overacting their emotions to an absurd level (drs Jennifer). Second to the dialogue are the scene settings, there is apparently an emergency and yet the actors are coolly entering the scene holding a cup of coffee while they were summoned to the Space agency (without any indications except the urgency of the request). It just makes no sense.
I could only watch for the first thirty odd minutes. The drawbacks of the movie as i described were too much. The only thing i could find mildly amusing was Tom Sizemore. He wasn't acting great (i wonder who could with the story and the dialogues) but he was entertaining. Especially when discussing the AI.
As described by others, it does look like a high-school play/movie. It was to be expected, but for me, it was just a bit too much.
Battle for Pandora
2022
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi
Battle for Pandora
2022
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi
Plot summary
After a help signal from a research vessel makes it back to Earth, the U.S. Space Force sends a rescue ship to Pandora, a moon of Saturn. But when they try to land, they discover Pandora is inhabited by a highly evolved humanoid species.
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Look through blue glasses
Solid idea done bad
I watches this on SCI FI channel. These days they only show crap like this.
First let me say that actors did do ok. Camera work was also ok. And effects ware also good for B movie. I saw worse. That is why I gave it 3 star.
Now I know it is mockbuster of the Abyss and Avatar franchise but they could try a bit better.
I really hate neoprene bondage-lite suits, pipes from walmart, sportbike gloves....and that should be space suit? And they glow blue when healty, red when not healty...They look stupid.
Not to mention script. Dialog is crazy. Let me make an example. On the planet after shooting: "we have armor piercing holow points". WTF? When it comes to bullets hollow point bullet and armor piercing are exactly the oppsite. Who write this stuff and why??? It is just pointless.
And why not use some interesting looking modern real guns insted of stupid things that they used in the movie. In combination with Walmart made suits and cheap effect plus bad writing it was fiasco that even actors could not save.
Most actors did try the best. Respect to them. They did good. But you cant do magic with bad script and crapy music.
Ok, if you want to see a sci fi movie
It starts out similar a some other water based alien movies, but it is different enough to keep your interest at the beginning. It probably would have been at least a good movie had it not been for the ending. Once they know what they are fighting they come up with some ideas on how to find it and stop it.
Unfortunately, it was not sold very well. I did not buy into the method for getting rid of it. They state that salt water will force it from the body. Our body is salt water... so that reasoning did not make any sense at all. Once that happens the methods start to fight it fall short too. I don't see this movie ever having been a great movie, but it had some potential until they started to figure out how to detect it and kill it.