trogwolf Dark Planet is a post apocalyptic morality play, centered around the thesis, "robots don't make good humans". If you enjoyed Firefly and Serenity as much as I did, there is a good chance you will enjoy Dark Planet. I never heard of a theater release. I discovered it on the shelf of a video rental store. I watch it as often as I watch my other favorites: Blade Runner, Highlander, Serenity, Predator, Excalibur, Soldier and Chronicles of Riddick.If you are a fan of these films, it is hard for me to imagine you not liking Dark Planet.I think Dark Planet is a really great film. In fact, I wonder if it could be successfully presented on stage. The small cast makes it well suited to such a venue. I read some of these reviews and I wonder what film they were watching.

Neilos 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.

Scottycooks Where is the crew of the Satellite of Love when you need them!!! Only MST3K could help this out! The ship is dark, the costumes are dark, the lighting is dark, and some of the effects budget must have been used up before they started. Skip it.

An Ceann I'm only writing this as a warning - save your time and your money this is a really terrible film. I will watch almost any sci-fi but this was torture to sit through until the end! I had to wait a week before writing this wee comment as before now it I am not sure I could have remained rational thinking about the rubbish I paid to see(only on video but it still hurts!)