Apparently, no one has heard of this movie. That's kind of a shame because this was a fairly decent movie. As I was standing up at the end of the film I was trying to come up with some way to easily describe it and the best I could come up with is "BSG-lite for kids" which I would consider a fair compliment. A brief summery is thus: humans invade a peaceful world and attempt to commit mass genocide. As any good BSG fan knows, though, it's more complicated than that, which is good. There were several challenging concepts raised involving justification for war, torture, military coups, friends, family, loyalty, and a few others I may not have immediately caught. I was actually impressed by the breadth of topics the writers attempted to tackle in a movie targeted toward that 12 year old boy and girl segment. Oh yes, the main character of the movie is a spunky, mechanically inclined and amazingly awesome pilot who is female. Think young Anakin Skywalker with every single ounce of annoying quality vigorously cleansed from her being.Those of you who have seen a trailer for this movie might be wondering why I haven't mentioned the focal point of all the trailers, i.e., the fact that this movie is (best seen in) 3D and features large battles between small fighter craft (mostly). Well, while that is the reason I went to see this movie, it turned out there was so much more that easily surpassed the very awesome battle sequences that they really kind of slipped into the background in terms of what the main attraction to this film actually is. I think that's a good thing. The battles were a backdrop for character and plot development, but not a focal point of the feature.
This isn't a must-see movie and if you have interest in seeing it then a DVD rental might do you just fine. Sure, you won't catch it in 3D, but you'll probably still be happy with the movie and you won't be spending $15 on a 3D feature ticket.
