Ty (Connor Trinneer) and Lei (James Kyson-Lee) are a couple of smugglers. They’re busted by the UP (space government) and given a chance at a clean slate. Pick up a crate and take it back. Sounds simple enough. But when their ship is stolen they open the crate and find a girl inside. The transport they hitch a ride on is attacked and Ty is forced to make an unplotted jump that lands then on a deserted planet with a secret. And some big fucking bugs.
There’s four words that warn any movie goer that what they are about to see is probably going to be a pile of shite. The first two are “Uwe Boll”. The second two are “Syfy Original”.
Technically this said something like “produced by the sci fi channel” but you get my point.
The now called Syfy Originals are films put out by the channel of that name. Generally they have one or two TV stars in lead roles and god awful scripts. They cost a fiver to make. This is no exception.
Our stars are the two guys I named above. The first, Connor Trinneer, played the engineer in Star Trek: Enterprise and Michael, the bad guy from Atlantis. He’s a decent enough actor and he does perfectly well here. A shining star given the crap he’s surrounded by. The second, James Kyson-Lee, plays Ando on Heroes. That’s Hiro’s best friend, the other Japanese guy. He does okay too but nothing great.
Outside of those two, and minor credit to “the other main guy who’s name I can’t find as I can’t remember the character name” and Toni Trucks who played the girl from the box for being not awful all the time, the acting isn’t too far off porn level. The two main bad guys interactions are HORRENDOUSLY bad, and much of the cannon fodder look surprised to be in a film and may be reading their scripts off the walls.
The other plus point that the film has are the special effects. Well, in space anyway. It looks a lot like the guys who do the Battlestar Galactica effects did this one too. That’s the same people behind Firefly btw. The look of the ships is reminiscent of those shows, and the space stuff has the same hand held vibe. Nothing to complain about there.
The bugs are a bit crap though. Nothing too terrible, but not great. And some of the set design is semi decent, the rest is terrible.
If this was spliced together cut scenes from a game I wouldn’t be too surprised. And they’d be pretty bad cut scenes. The film completely loses any semblance of writing in the last 25 minutes and just randomly has things happen with flimsy explanations. And the twist can be seen from a mile away.
It’s not the worst Syfy original from what I’ve seen so far. I made it through for one thing, and without too much pain. But I wouldn’t bother. Just check out Scanners instead. Or Starship Troopers. Or…..anything.
Next up: The Rocker
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