I like Kevin Sorbo, he plays the low key hero well. Its just unfortunate he does as many poor roles as he does good ones and I feel he is well under used here instead relying on pretty faces, glossy shots, odd music, dodgy background story, nonsense ongoing story....
The story is a pretty basic SciFi stable - mankind messes up the planet, searches for a new one, finds more than they bargained for. Nothing wrong with that except the way they messed it up was pretty non-sensical even in a budget SciFi flic - adjusting Earth's orbit via particle accelerators and creating wormholes throughout the galaxies!!?!?!
Err...no on many levels!...and explained in the blink of an eye before falling in to the trap of 'pretty people, ridiculous personal dramas, overly glossy shots...etc' rather than concentrating on quality of the script and screenplay to make up for the lack of £¥$¢
One of only 7 ships, long since lost alone in space, tracks a signal and sends a dropship into a wormhole, where of course disaster strikes and the ship is lost leaving the few survivors (oddly all young, bright tweens, plus for some reason the main ships captain!) stranded on the alien world.
Cue hostile humans and monstrous humanoids (and a Horse!!!), all of which appear without any questions from the protagonists...and the humans speak perfect English despite initially having their own language! (I'm surprised it took so long for the survivors to work out the twist - ps Its Earth!)
The film then turns in to a montage of scenes in which Danielle Chuchran learns to ride said horse, shows off her athletic and rock-climbing, fights off alien hoards, wins the lottery saves the planet, resets time...err...I think I fell asleep at some point...all thanks to her amazing wrist implant that can perform any task she asks of it (scanning bodies, remote firing ship beacons, atmospheric testing...)
Finally things start to move and then it just goes from 'uh?' to 'duh!'
And on to the nasty creatures which would have looked at home in the Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately they seems to fit more in to the 'good idea at the time' category than having any real impact. And in any case if this is simply meant to be a 'future earth' then their presence just doesn't make sense in the time scale between ship launch and crash.
The movie was at best 'watchable' and filled a few minutes of my life. Unfortunately it was at times rather painful, and at others rather boring thanks to the poor script and storyline,and not least the ending which screamed 'pilot for a series' as there was no real conclusion merely a sort-of-final battle followed by the arrival of the mother ship. .... If it hadn't been for an evening of boring TV I may not have made it to the end (tbh I may not even have gotten through the opening credits with the ridiculous 'earth is doomed' history)
There are better films out there on similar themes.
3/10
The story is a pretty basic SciFi stable - mankind messes up the planet, searches for a new one, finds more than they bargained for. Nothing wrong with that except the way they messed it up was pretty non-sensical even in a budget SciFi flic - adjusting Earth's orbit via particle accelerators and creating wormholes throughout the galaxies!!?!?!
Err...no on many levels!...and explained in the blink of an eye before falling in to the trap of 'pretty people, ridiculous personal dramas, overly glossy shots...etc' rather than concentrating on quality of the script and screenplay to make up for the lack of £¥$¢
One of only 7 ships, long since lost alone in space, tracks a signal and sends a dropship into a wormhole, where of course disaster strikes and the ship is lost leaving the few survivors (oddly all young, bright tweens, plus for some reason the main ships captain!) stranded on the alien world.
Cue hostile humans and monstrous humanoids (and a Horse!!!), all of which appear without any questions from the protagonists...and the humans speak perfect English despite initially having their own language! (I'm surprised it took so long for the survivors to work out the twist - ps Its Earth!)
The film then turns in to a montage of scenes in which Danielle Chuchran learns to ride said horse, shows off her athletic and rock-climbing, fights off alien hoards, wins the lottery saves the planet, resets time...err...I think I fell asleep at some point...all thanks to her amazing wrist implant that can perform any task she asks of it (scanning bodies, remote firing ship beacons, atmospheric testing...)
Finally things start to move and then it just goes from 'uh?' to 'duh!'
And on to the nasty creatures which would have looked at home in the Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately they seems to fit more in to the 'good idea at the time' category than having any real impact. And in any case if this is simply meant to be a 'future earth' then their presence just doesn't make sense in the time scale between ship launch and crash.
The movie was at best 'watchable' and filled a few minutes of my life. Unfortunately it was at times rather painful, and at others rather boring thanks to the poor script and storyline,and not least the ending which screamed 'pilot for a series' as there was no real conclusion merely a sort-of-final battle followed by the arrival of the mother ship. .... If it hadn't been for an evening of boring TV I may not have made it to the end (tbh I may not even have gotten through the opening credits with the ridiculous 'earth is doomed' history)
There are better films out there on similar themes.
3/10