Vincent Black The first time I put this on three of us started watching it and fell asleep. The second and third attempts resulted in the same fashion although we tried to pickup where we left off. Finally two of us were determined to finish the movie from beginning to end. We drank some caffeine and started watching it from the beginning. Just as we suspected it was very hard to keep concentrating on the video and stay awake.The plot is random events that appear to have no connection because they are unrelated. They were given one mission and I am not quite sure of the mission parameters. They must have been so secret that the writer kept it from the audience. The obvious size of the starship Odyssey should have had hundreds of crewmen aboard but we see a total of seven including the saboteur. The saboteur is so skillful in keeping his identity a secret, even when he shouts, "Long live the Empire!" on the bridge.The narrator states that faster than light travel is inexpensive in the future. That is pretty obvious when you see that the ship isn't constructed very well, since a single washer was able to almost cripple the ship.Much of this film's special effects are basic still shots panned or zoomed. At one point as the "Sanctuary AI" rambles on and on we are subjected to a slide show of still pictures with the AI tower pasted on them. The hand to hand fight scenes are much worse than backyard wrestling. Once a gun is introduced, they keep them in an unsecured open locker, the saboteur fails to kill anyone with it. The props such as the "Crone Detectors" were nothing more than a pair of welder goggles.A few flashbacks are inserted into the film but have no dialog or purpose. They resemble basic home movies of the Captain and his girl friend but we have no idea when or where they were at the time of the memory. The flashbacks serve no purpose other than time filler.The ending is left open, there is no conclusion, but there was no storyline to begin with. By the end of this film you are left with a sense that you could care less if these characters lived or died. In fact, we hope they died a horrible death.

Jared Prophet I rented this from Red Box. When I pulled the disc out of the case, I noticed the disc was super scratched on one side towards the edge. I wondered how it could get like that and still be in service.Then I put the disc and and saw. No one could possibly get far enough into the movie to hit the bad spot on the DVD.The movie opens with a 3 minute history lesson that seems like 3 hours. This is followed by a fight scene between 2 guys in an alley that goes on too long. Followed by an endless succession of people walking through weak sets talking about nothing vital.Horrible.

ouroboros668 We call movies like this 'Shelf-Worthy' as we taken them from the DVD player, place them on a shelf far away from our good-to-watch DVDs and when Christmas comes around, we give them to our neighbours up and down the street by slipping them (anonymously) into their mailboxes late at night while dressed in our best 'night mission clothing.' The movies aren't wrapped, there's no 'To:' tag on them and no 'From:' tag on them Shelf-worthy to the Nth degree was this one. Never did finish watching it.We've given out a dozen movies in the 2 years we've been "shelving" the bad ones. Never had a complaint from a neighbor and never got one returned to us :)Don't believe me? Check your mailbox ... Seriously!

Wheeljak I rented this movie from Redbox for a dollar, and even at that cut-rate price, I feel like they gypped me. Always looking for a story in space, I was immediately attracted to the words "Star Quest," which appeared in big letters on a beautifully-done cover. Well, as they say, never judge a book (or a DVD) by its cover. After watching this movie for five minutes, I found to my chagrin that, apparently, the majority of this movie's budget went into producing the cover art. Where should I start? How about the terrible fight scene at the beginning, between the star captain, and the Borg/Klingon knockoff guy? Strangely, the star captain never hit the other guy with his left hand, but still managed to hold his own against a guy who had 50 pounds and six inches on him. The CGI models were actually pretty nice for a low-budget film, but the motion was shot at such a low frame rate, that I felt like I was watching it on a View-Master, except without the cool 3-D effect. The costumes were laughable, but didn't hold that against the movie; I expect that of a movie with such lofty aspirations (sci-fi ain't cheap), but such a paltry budget. The acting was not really that bad; I think a competent director could have coaxed some decent performances out of the actors. The problem was that the directing was bad enough for me to suspect that there was no director at all! That really doesn't matter, though, because a Serpentor-like amalgam of the greatest directors in history couldn't even save this ragged screenplay. This movie's writing was so awful, that I doubt it would receive a passing grade in 9th grade English Composition class. This movie had no plot, the dialogue was little more than a string of clichés, there was no relatable characterization, there was nothing to connect one scene to the next, and it had NO ENDING! I'm not exaggerating; when the credits started running, I started to wonder if I had accidentally skipped to the next chapter!To tell the truth, the most enjoyment I got out of this travesty of film making was the gag reel, where one of the actors railed on one of the stagehands in a full-on cursing rant reminiscent of Christian-Bale.I'm really happy that advancing technology has made American movie distribution much more accessible to the little guy movie makers, but in my opinion, this movie is a flagrant abuse of those newfound freedoms. Cut it out.