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Wing Commander

Wing Commander

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Poor plot.
Review: "Wing Commander" computer games are awesomw,but when I saw the film,I was very dissapointed. I'm baffled as to why Freddie Prinze JR and David Warner would do a film with so little plot.The film is obviously tries to make for the lack of plot by bringing in nice visual effects."Wing Commander" tries to bring in drama and suspense but fails miserably like it did at the box office. "Wing Commander" is good if your looking for good action and good C.G.I. effects,but lacks in every other department.Good rental,but not worth buying.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not a total Loss, but a bad Sci-Fi movie.
Review: Science fiction is a very wonderful thing. It is very thought provoking and makes us think about society and ourselves. It should also relate to us, by having good characters and a good story. Special effects can only highten the experience, but special effects alone can't make a movie, and that's what WING COMMANDER does.

Sure, it can be fun and it has great special effects, but it has bad characters, played by actors who can't seem to get the parts down, only because they were handed a bad script.

YOU WILL LIKE THIS IF: You are looking for a fun movie with good special effects and a lot of action.

YOU WILL HATE THIS IF: You enjoy thought provoking Science Fiction with good characters, good story, and a good script.

BOTTOM LINE: Don't take it seriously, or you will not enjoy it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A bit of a disappointment, but it could have been worse.
Review: Actually this movie is not as bad as some people make it out to be. Being a fan of the Wing Commander games I had expected something better, but when I look back on it I admit my first critisisms were a little too hard. Wingcommander has splendid special effects and the fact that the fighters look like a WWI pilots nightmare actually adds to the sense of the futuristic. At least I did not have the idea, that I would have been able to design these planes myself. The acting left a lot to be desired and the plot could have been better but Wing Commander was quite entertaining. The one real objection I have is the use of sonar in outer space. Everybody is talking in wispers for fear of being detected, as though soundwaves can travel through a vacuum!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: pretty good movie
Review: While this movie might be a little strange, it is still a good movie (like "Starship Troopers". If you did not like this movie, then you dont understand it (like when you missed half of it when you got up to get a refill on your drink and your family volunteered you to get them one as long as you were up).

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Divided...
Review: Well, I played the game and I liked it very much - for some time at least - mostly due to the cinematic sequences and the action. The movie, yes it's bad but for the gamer it is somehow worth to see it. The Animations are quite nice and go much further than in the game. Definetly NO movie for the usual SciFi fan or movie viewer. For the one who knows the game, I would say it's nice to watch.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Decent Sci-Fi!
Review: Wow! What an intense and action packed movie! Freddie Prinze does a good job being the Pilgrim with the so called "6th Sense" or 'Force' as you could call it. The pacing is excellent in the movie keeping the viewer occupied and no chance of being bored. The action and special effects are also very good and meet to today's sci-fi fan standards. Perhaps more background and dialog on why the 'Kilrathi' are so determined on destroying the earth and universe. But never the less this movie is much better than I anticipated and I was pleasantly suprised. Saffron Burrows was also excellent as the fighter wing commander. If you like good sci-fi and action packed then this should not disappoint. By the way, whoever the last few critics were on the movie giving it only 1 star needs to have their head examined...perhaps some people have too high expectations and can't simply enjoy a decent movie...

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Should earn five "negative" stars!
Review: Oh my God, what a horrible movie!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: THE WORST FILM EVER MADE. EVER.
Review: Geez, this film was bad. Take the hideously awful acting of Plan 9 from Outer Space, the annoying dialogue of Star Wars Episode 1, and the pitiful plot of Friday the 13th-- you'll get an idea of just how bad Wing Commander really is. It's far inferior to any of the films I previously mentioned; in fact, the only good thing about the film is the score. While the music is commendable, it does not change the movies mood whatsoever. I found myself laughing in the theatre after many of the lines. Pitiful, pitiful. If you liked this film, please do not write any screenplays and do not, by any means, reproduce.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Could this movie be any worse?
Review: Let's not beat around the bush here- this is not a good movie. It's bad. In fact, very bad. I have said that there is, in my opinion, such a thing as a good bad movie. What is it? Well . . . you'll know it when you see it. Unlike bad bad movies, you actually enjoy a good bad movie. You just enjoy it for all of the wrong reasons. "Wing Commander" isn't one of them. "Wing Commander" is just plain bad. I keep comparing this movie to "Starship Troopers", another bad film but one I enjoyed throughly. It was a lot of fun to watch. "Wing Commander" was just excruciating to see.

Here are my problems with it:

-the acting talent assembled underwhelmed me. The actors are young, inexpirienced, and not particularly interesting. None have any sort of presence to convey. Say what you want about "Starship Troopers", but at least the actors and actresses looked good battling those bugs and they looked like they were having a good time. The actors and actresses in "Wing Commander" have mistaken this movie for a scifi "Saving Private Ryan" or something, trying to attach great insight to what can only be described as a poor script.

The career of Freddie Prinze Jr (Maverick) will survive this, but I can only pray Matthew Lilliard's (Maniac) does not. The less said of the rest of the cast the better.

-The fighters look silly, like WWI biplanes instead of 27th century weapons. The ships looked unimpressive and the warfare portrayed was ridiculously done. It looked slapped together at the last minute without any sort of inspiration.

-The screenwriters showed a total lack of imagination cribbing tidbits from submarine movies to fill up the action sequences and inserting lame and cliched war movie dialouge into the characters mouths. At one point in the movie, during one particularly tedious speech about sacrifice and loss, my friend looked over at me and let out an exasperated sigh. It's a scifi action flick fellas, not Shakespeare.

-What else? The music stinks, the direction was worthy of an amateur, and the overall experience of seeing this movie was not one I'd care to go through again. I can't say enough bad things.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not worth watching
Review: This is one of those movies where they get all the best bits from the film and place them in the trailer to get people to see the film. The effects are below standard and really you never know what the purpose of the film is ! With the cast line up you would think that it has all the potential to be a great movie as the cast have been in some good movies with the exeption of this one. No special features on the DVD and not worth the money.


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