I don't really know how to say this, but it seems the creator of this movie decided to put all ingredients from previously successful movies into one big blender, give it a good stir and then market the resulting tasteless slur that came out of it.
The following is a short summary of the plot, in case you want to save yourself the trouble (SPOILERS !!):
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The Story starts with the typical crew of a spacecraft, 40 years after leaving Earth due to a climatic breakdown of the ecosystem. While investigating a planet in hope of finding a place to set up camp, everything goes south and everyone crashes into whats looks like the set of 'Breaking Bad', right in the middle of a reddish desert. From there on she gets attacked by a group of looters copied out of 'Mad Max', who then in turn get eaten by Orcs. The heroine barely escapes and after finding out her captain is still alive, starts to make her way across the desert armed with a bow 'Hunger Games' style with a little touch 'Lord of the Rings', fighting off more faceless looters and wild animals right out of any alien movie ever made. The latter to save a horse, which turns the movie into the 'Horse Whisperer' (Thank god for the riding lessons seemingly mandatory for starship crews). What follow now is central plot arch of a badly wounded commander (as seen in 'After Eart') telling the apprentice heroine how to activate the emergency transponder. After almost getting eaten by space-Orcs, and getting saved over and over by a "good scavenger" (fluent of course in both, future-earth-speak and old-school English) she decides to team up (including "stitch the wound on may back while tell you my life"-scene). Wait a second.... replace those gas masks with ape-masks and you are right in the middle of 'Planet of the Apes'. And in case you haven't figured it out before, the helpful gas-masked assailant will tell you directly, what everyone should know by know: Oh my god, this is Earth! After finding her captain, and rescuing the lost daughter of our helpful, muscular, multilingual scavenger, the movie goes underground 'The Descent' style including small corridors, hordes of Orcs and heroic characters staying behind to save the rest. And of course, the final battle between the leader of the "evil hordes" and the helpful one, as seen in 'Postman'.
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Summary: Lots of running through deserts, rock-climbing, punching gas-masked assailants and space-Orcs, leg-grabbing, panicking and rolling around in dirt.
My Tipp: Save yourself the trouble and just watch the originals
The following is a short summary of the plot, in case you want to save yourself the trouble (SPOILERS !!):
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The Story starts with the typical crew of a spacecraft, 40 years after leaving Earth due to a climatic breakdown of the ecosystem. While investigating a planet in hope of finding a place to set up camp, everything goes south and everyone crashes into whats looks like the set of 'Breaking Bad', right in the middle of a reddish desert. From there on she gets attacked by a group of looters copied out of 'Mad Max', who then in turn get eaten by Orcs. The heroine barely escapes and after finding out her captain is still alive, starts to make her way across the desert armed with a bow 'Hunger Games' style with a little touch 'Lord of the Rings', fighting off more faceless looters and wild animals right out of any alien movie ever made. The latter to save a horse, which turns the movie into the 'Horse Whisperer' (Thank god for the riding lessons seemingly mandatory for starship crews). What follow now is central plot arch of a badly wounded commander (as seen in 'After Eart') telling the apprentice heroine how to activate the emergency transponder. After almost getting eaten by space-Orcs, and getting saved over and over by a "good scavenger" (fluent of course in both, future-earth-speak and old-school English) she decides to team up (including "stitch the wound on may back while tell you my life"-scene). Wait a second.... replace those gas masks with ape-masks and you are right in the middle of 'Planet of the Apes'. And in case you haven't figured it out before, the helpful gas-masked assailant will tell you directly, what everyone should know by know: Oh my god, this is Earth! After finding her captain, and rescuing the lost daughter of our helpful, muscular, multilingual scavenger, the movie goes underground 'The Descent' style including small corridors, hordes of Orcs and heroic characters staying behind to save the rest. And of course, the final battle between the leader of the "evil hordes" and the helpful one, as seen in 'Postman'.
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Summary: Lots of running through deserts, rock-climbing, punching gas-masked assailants and space-Orcs, leg-grabbing, panicking and rolling around in dirt.
My Tipp: Save yourself the trouble and just watch the originals
- Planet of the Apes - Lord of the Rings - Hunger Games - The Descent - The Horse Whisperer - After Earth (with limitations regarding entertainment value)