I spotted this in a £1 shop, and figured any movie for £1 is a good deal. How wrong I was.
The first scenes of this visual monstrosity contained the worst space battle I have ever seen. The movements of the ships were quite literally worse than those on Red Dwarf, a British sitcom with intentionally bad space animation. This set the scene for the rest of the film.
The script was the sort which leaves one torn between writhing in agony and collapsing in side-splitting laughter, and though delivered by the cast to the best of their ability, you've got to ask how on Earth they were persuaded to sign up to this.
Dark is an appropriate title - now we all know that an eerie space ship on a dangerous mission is dark on the inside. Alien did dark space ships well. Dark Planet did not. Even with all the lights off the curtains drawn, I struggled to make out who was who, what they were doing, why they were doing it.
And to top it all off, the plot is so rotten it could well have been dead for 20 years, and no one told the writers. The predictability is on a par with tossing a two-headed coin and trying to guess the outcome.
Awful, awful, awful. I might actually go and ask for my £1 back.
The first scenes of this visual monstrosity contained the worst space battle I have ever seen. The movements of the ships were quite literally worse than those on Red Dwarf, a British sitcom with intentionally bad space animation. This set the scene for the rest of the film.
The script was the sort which leaves one torn between writhing in agony and collapsing in side-splitting laughter, and though delivered by the cast to the best of their ability, you've got to ask how on Earth they were persuaded to sign up to this.
Dark is an appropriate title - now we all know that an eerie space ship on a dangerous mission is dark on the inside. Alien did dark space ships well. Dark Planet did not. Even with all the lights off the curtains drawn, I struggled to make out who was who, what they were doing, why they were doing it.
And to top it all off, the plot is so rotten it could well have been dead for 20 years, and no one told the writers. The predictability is on a par with tossing a two-headed coin and trying to guess the outcome.
Awful, awful, awful. I might actually go and ask for my £1 back.
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