Homeworld (2008)

Director:

Phillip Hudson

Writers:

Phillip Hudson (written by)
Glen Settle (written by)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Where Humanity is an Endangered Species

Plot:

The year: 3037. Earth is at war with aliens called Mendax. They have remarkable mental abilities and are determined to wipe out all mankind...

Plot Keywords:

Space Marine | Extinction | Paranoia

Cast

Beau Ballinger	...	Lieutenant Gray
Bronston DeLone	...	Corporal Hart
Vance Harvey	...	Captain Dolen
Galen Howard	...	Isaac
Larissa Kasian	...	Sergeant Fulsom
Kenneth Sears	...	Doctor Bayne
David Velasquez	...	The Colonist

Runtime:

USA:104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Alameda, California, USA

Company:

Rhinomotion

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Wounds and dirt makeup change inconsistently between scenes and shots.

The Outer Limits......only longer....and a happy ending

The outer limits was a tremendous sci fi, TV show that explored this very concept many times over. Are we really helping or hurting our society with what we're doing?? The only problem with this movie is that the production quality wasn't nearly as good as the TV show's was, and that's saying something. This movie was shot on such a low budget that there really wasn't much "sci fi" about it.

The aliens looked like something out of the old version of Doctor Who, you know the one that your older brother watched on PBS in the late 80's early 90's. The CGI graphics are sci fi channel bad. The explanation of why the crew's ship crash landed was not very realistic, let alone the video showing the crash was just terrible. The human colony was never seen up close.

I was also amazed at how in the end the bad guy switched to the good guy so quickly, and then everything was OK. Like the whole struggle throughout the entire movie wasn't worth any of the pay off.

The pacing of the movie was also very slow, which is strange because there wasn't much to explain. Normally when things are slow, you get a lot of explanation or character development, but that never happens.

There were also two deaths of characters in the film, yet neither really felt natural or real. One character was just introduced, not given much to do, then killed off.

The one thing that really upset me, was the acting of Kenneth Sears as the doctor. He was awful. I just didn't understand what in the world he was doing at any point, and his accent. I couldn't figure out if he was doing it on purpose, or it was just how he spoke, but it was annoying and distracting.

The one redeeming performance was from Beau Ballinger as Lt. Gray. Even though I would never believe in his character's choices, that has more to do with the script and the writing than it does his acting. He was actually believable as a young, yet inexperienced soldier.

Still, this is not a good film, and I can't recommend you take the time to watch it.