Nydenion

Finally, Nydelion was finished last year, after twelve years of production, a totally independent project, even seemingly dead for a while. Today, this may be not a big thing, after movies like 'Star Wreck', with similar budget (near zero) endless production time, and non-profit attitude.

One thing is to say, you will recognize the long time the movie took to be finished. Because it is a project supported by model artists, there are several scenes obviously with space ship models and not like 'Star Wreck' with its completely Computer generated CGI. You will also certainly recognize the various blue/green-screen backgrounds.

But generally the effects are good, and, what matters, there is an atmosphere, which takes you into the movie, especially while the two main characters are 'on the road' together.

The story itself is admittedly not the stroke of a genius, it's a bit of Star Wars and Firefly together, the plot is very simple. But with the lack of adventurous SF in these days, it's still good for a nice video evening.

The Actors do their best, and I assume they are mostly semi-professionals or amateurs or students. What is really good are the voice actors. In Germany it is common to overdub, but actually foreign movies, not German movies. I can't say which voice is dubbed, but there are certainly some. That takes the movie to a higher level of professionalism.

Nydelion is, with its serious approach, not better than 'Star Wreck', but also not inferior to. I recommend to buy it on DVD to support the efforts of those many participants and the brains behind. What you will get back is a nice little SF adventure that sometimes look a bit old-fashioned.

Terrible acting, awful effects, but totally entertaining in a really weird way. It's funny and tragic and a unique film lovers gem. I knew nothing about the 12 years it took to complete or the micro budget or that it was German. I thought the poor dubbing was just out of sync post-production voice over recording probably due to bad sound or...then I observed that all the actors have horrible teeth and thought, ah, it must be Russian or Polish or ...ultimately German. Gee there recent television shows and movies are so awesome...and this has its own awesomeness but because it's so darn bad.

Image is awful to look at, music is ridiculous, special effects deserve a 0 rating and the actors are bad.

Sorry I forgot: screenplay fit for a 5 year old As bad as it gets.

It's TRUE science fiction. While students may have done it doesn't mean it was not bad. Just because Hollywood didn't produce it is not a reason to crap on it like the previous review. Graphics very good. Acting is not bad either. It could have been far worse. It got a complete 10 for not being a horror or fantasy movie dubbed science fiction. I hate it when somone calls horror or fantasy science fiction. That's like someone calling a Millenial a Baby Boomer.

Every single person manages to have a completely blank face: no emotions whatsoever. It is dubbed: so the mouths don't agree at all. The dubbed texts were read by people who probably didn't even see the flick. News readers express more intonation. The story was probably about ten lines, of which half were scrapped. It hardly makes sense. Why go through all that trouble making beautiful ships and background without some exciting story? The execution of the dogfights was pretty good: but why the lame tactics and choreography? It was a relief it was over - for my ears: the wall of cinematic music starts on the first second and doesn't stop until the last.