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Simply Perfect

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Good concept, poorly executed.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

So many close up scenes with bad camera movement, ripped of characters from an obvious franchise, a ridiculous narrator and senseless plot, illogical things happening even for a sci-fi (the stars move around the spaceship...) and wooden acting. Space Quest: The Odyssey is my current fix of looking for a "so bad it's good" kind of movie, but unfortunately it isn't as funny as some horrible movies I have seen already.The settings as well as the costumes are cheap, the music does not go in harmony with this pile of junk and there is no actual sense of a huge war happening. The computer voices fail, the "action" scenes are poor, the special effects are cheap and the lore provided is nothing new at all and ridiculously bad. The editing was amateur, plot explanation scenes looked like cheap commercials for alienating customers and viewing the spaceship gets rehashed.It's at times like this, especially when randomly switching from the "story" to a lifeless planet or a solo crappy spaceship in space and quickly switching back, where I want to ask what the director was thinking. All I wanted to do with this was to laugh out loud, but I could only laugh while acknowledging it's a "so bad it's bad" movie. Sarcastic laughing at its finest. IMDb's misguiding and embarrassing summary on this could not be even more far-fetched from what it truly is, a total piece of failure.

I agree with all the comments so far, especially the bit about the captain talking into the sleeve of his shirt as if it was a communicator. But here's my question: How bad of an actor do you have to be when it even looks fake when all you're doing is walking down a passageway? I can see doing a poor job pretending to fight (and believe me, these guys do a poor job) or showing emotions that you are not feeling, but walking down the hall or across a room? How hard is that. Normally, I reserve my Redbox videos online and only do so after checking with IMDb. Sadly, I didn't do so this time. So, instead of an hour or so of entertainment, I had to do the dishes and laundry.

I thought I had seen some bad movies before, but this one makes the worst of them look like academy award material. I feel like I got robbed of a dollar by Redbox. OK, it's a B movie but give me a break. I can understand cheap sets and costumes, but the crew looked like they were wearing ill fitting pajamas from an outlet mall that only sells seconds. It looked like there was a large magnifying glass as part of the back of the captain's chair which would have made sitting a real blast. The part Klingon, part human cyborg wore walking casts for boots. The connections from the ship to the cyborg for regeneration were a big mess of loose telephone cable wires. You are kidding me right? One review said this was a family film. The only way I would classify this as a family film is if they meant it was made by a family of children as the production team. It appears to have been: 1. written by a 10 year old; 2. directed by a 9 year old; 3. produced by an 8 year old; 4. filmed by a 7 year old; 5. edited by a 6 year old; and 6. financed by a 5 year old's allowance. I nearly wet my pants at the end when when the helmsmen said "I didn't think it could get any worse." He should have said that line at the beginning and saved time I will never get back in my life.I did, however, laugh hysterically as my sister read all 4 pages of the reviews, one of which was submitted by someone claiming to be a member of the 9 person cast of actors who should be barred permanently from the acting profession. To call what they did acting would be an affront to the entire film and television industry.If I really wanted to torture my students it would be a toss up between showing this, or making them listen to Mrs. Miller sings the Beetles. Naaaaaaah this wins hands down.

I don't know if I should be angry with the producers so much as I am Redbox. It seems more of the budget was allocated to the cover than to the actual film. I had never seen or heard of this movie, and was simply hungry for a good scifi. I've seen some rather low budget films on Redbox before, but never quite this low. The rental should have been knocked down to at least 25%. Unfortunately, I'll probably fall victim to the same rouse again. The movie itself is not too terrible for such a low budget film, but it is pretty annoying when you're not expecting it. I guess it's the marketing that pisses me off. It wouldn't surprise me if this film will make more money off of unsuspecting customers than anything else.