Star Quest: The Odyssey |
  • USA • 2009 • 81m •  • Directed by: Jon Bonnell. • Starring: Aaron Ginn-Forsberg, Davina Joy, Tamara McDaniel, James Ray, Adam Rini, Meaghan Sloane, Shane Stevens, Katherine Stewart, Kevin Tye..    In the wake of a great battle that ravages planet Earth, mankind begins establishing colonies on other planets and chaos reigns. The government has been destroyed, and rogue colonies are preying on the innocent. With the future of our entire civilization hanging in the balance, the fight for the future begins.
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Star Quest: The Odyssey looks dreadful visually, there are only a few sets which is not always a bad thing but it is a bad thing where they are so cheap that they wouldn't pass for sets let alone not resembling what they're supposed to be. There is some very choppy photography that may make epileptics wary and the editing was in serious need of a tightening up, that's even in the stock footage-like opening and that was the best the movie looked. And the special effects are some of the worst of any movie, so amateurish and fake in quality that they have to be seen to be believed. The music is incredibly out of place, it would work in a badly done porn movie but the monotonous drone that the music basically is does not fit here at all.
Star Quest: The Odyssey is horrendously written even for a low-budget movie. If there was ever any read-throughs or rewrites that really did not show here, the dialogue is so cheesy and very rarely makes sense, some conversations having an incomplete feel. The narration a vast majority of the time was unnecessary, over-used and says very little if anything at all, the only time where it halfway worked was in the opening where it did actually try to explain what was going on. The story really does plod to the point it's interminable, you get a thumping headache trying to remotely understand what little there is of it and it's padded with ham-fisted melodrama that's underwritten and a messy mix of overacted and underacted. There's also a very poorly choreographed fist fight that makes children's playground fist fighting more realistic and one of the most abrupt endings in low-budget movie history. The movie's amateurishly directed, the characters inject next to no personality whatsoever and at times were annoying and with the exception of Shane Stevens(and even he's not particularly great) the actors are like living mannequins, and that's an insult to mannequins.
Overall, worthless in every way. Best avoided.
Review by TheLittleSongbird from the Internet Movie Database.
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