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DVD Dark Space
 Rating: 4.0 Genres: Sci-Fi Director: Emmett Callinan Writers: Emmett Callinan Stars: Alana Dietze, Steve West, Tonya Kay |
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| Details: Country: USA Release Date: 15 July 2013 (Germany) |
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| Box Office Budget: $750,000 (estimated) |
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DVD Dark Space
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OK, first off, when reviewing/analyzing this movie, look at the fact that it has a budget of only 750,000 U.S. Dollars. I've seen Syfy movies made with budgets of 1.5 mil – 10 mil U.S. Dollars and are worse than this movie in almost every way. For the budget of this movie, they pulled off some unbelievable stuff – to the point of you hoping that they find a bright future in movie production, because if they had 10 mil U.S. Dollars, I can guarantee you that the movie will be a huge hit!!
Now, given the budget of $750k, the effects of the armor, the hull integrity, the space ship designs, the Artificial Intelligence built into the ships' mainframe, and the planetary (both, from space and ground) effects were stunning! In terms of effects and atmospheric simulations, this automatically gets a 7/10, given the budget.
However, the acting was very good for first-timers or at least beginning actors, as I don't recognize many faces in this movie. They could've done better — but could they, really? Think about it, most good actors are behind a green screen or actually jumping out of windows, but these people only had a budget of $750k, so they didn't have much to go on, and they pulled it off nicely!
Sure, it had a generic plot, but this is typical with low-budget movies.
Overall, I give this movie a 6/10, because it had great special effects, not bad acting, and generic plot with slight enhancements – throw in an extremely low budget of $750k, and you got yourself a seller!
So to begin, Off World had a relatively small budget (only $750,000) so don't go into this expecting a AAA feature. That being said I personally found the overall aesthetic of the film to be quite pleasing and reminiscent of the early 2000's – placing this title a few years behind the times.
Off World does a decent job of mixing light comedy, action, suspense, sci-fi and even offers a little twist towards the end. In spite of the competent meshing of genres, I found the plot to be rather lacklustre and pretty uninspiring overall. Off World left me with enough unanswered questions towards the end of the film to warrant a separate title that provides an alternative perspective for the time frame.
When all is said and done though, if you like science fiction and have a few hours to kill, I certainly wouldn't dissuade you from watching this feature. The cast do decent job of suspending your disbelief and as previously mentioned, the aesthetic is of what I would call an acceptable standard
A fun "Campy" low budget B sci-fi flick reminiscent of classic B sci-fi movies appealing to youth such as the original "Blob" and other films of the 50's-70's
Young people will find this fun because it's fun watching other young people do dumb things and the foreshadowing is within reach of a teen.
This is a better movie than many "A" Studio sci-fi flicks and "bad science" is forgivable in B movies if they're fun.
Considering the low budget the effects were well done… Good direction, adequate acting.
Refreshingly politically INcorrect. Even more refreshing are people who are upset by this aspect of the movie. har har har.
Just to be sure no one is mislead, Off World is a poorly done movie. The story is pretty ordinary: a group of college age people go on a spring break road trip in the distant future. They rent a space ship and it crashes (of course) (apparently somewhere in the woods around Denver) and they must fight aliens and Bobba Fett's in order to survive. The story was serviceable enough, but everything else was terrible. The dialog was horrific: I get more p**y there than most people get in a life time. Yes, that was a line delivered with absolutely no context or feeling…yechhhh. The entire script was nothing but sparse and unnatural sophomoric dialog. The acting was about as emotionless as I've ever see in a movie…all lines delivered like a 6th grader reading a book in front of class. And since it is a scifi movie I should mention that there are NO special effects or costumes worthy of putting into a modern day movie. I could go on, but I have already deep 6'ed this movie and don't want to think about it much more. Save yourself a trip to the trash bin and skip this movie.