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Even though this got pretty bad reviews, I still decided to check this movie out. This isn't as bad as some people would lead you to believe. It could have been a lot better but, whatever potential they had, they squandered it. This is prett much Escape From New York except, in space.
There's not much in terms of story but, it takes place in the future. There's a max security prison in space and the president's daughter goes to it to check things out. She interviews ones of the prisoners and he ends up breaking free(Whattt???!!!). Soon her and everyone one else is in danger when all the prisoner's get released and in order to save the president's daughter they decide to send a guy named Snow. He is about to get sent to the prison for 30 years but, if he rescues the president's daughter all of his charges will be dropped. Then after that, you can pretty much pinpoint what's going to happen in the movie.
The things that I liked and disliked are all over the place but, I guess I'll start with the visuals. The visuals are inconsistent. Some of it is really bad and some of it is really good and pretty. The scenes where Snow is trying to run away from the police on a bike is laughably bad. You can tell everything is fake and the filming was poorly done. It was a sloppy scene, with a ton of shakey cam. The outerspace images are pretty and they looked like the were done with care(?). At least this movie wasn't in 3-D.
The script is poor for the most part. There are some funny and clever one liners from Guy Pearce but, other than that, the script feels like it was written by a 12 year old. With the exception of Snow, the characters are pretty much cardboard cut outs. I didn't really care for any of the characters including Snow himself even though he's the most developed. I see what the screenwriters were trying to do with him but, he comes off as annoying and an asshole and didn't really come off as the hero type.
Whatever the case, Guy Pearce plays him well. He is probably one of the best things about the movie, such a shame that his talent is not being put to good use here. Maggie Grace on the other hand is so wooden that I almost mistook her from a wooden plank. Her and Pearce barely had any chemistry together. I didn't care if they ended up together or not.The scene with them at the end with these two involving parachutes is unintentionally funny. The rest of the cast was only okay.
Overall, Guy Pearce, the nice visuals, and the occasional funny one liners save the movie. The poor script, the cardboard cut-out characters, the sloppy execution, and Maggie Grace bring this film down. There was a lot of potential that was unfortunately, wasted. The anti-gravity scene would have been a lot cooler had we not seen the same thing almost shot-for-shot in Mission Impossible 4. Unless you're dying to see this movie, then by all means, watch it. Otherwise, this is only good to watch if you truly have nothing to do.
