Some movies age well and this is one of them, a successful horror story in space.
The story is somewhat unique thanks to the space aspect and on the other hand is simple and easy to understand, but it is not predictibile that is for sure, it will surprise you all the way, even though it is a 1997 movie.
Our Director Paul Anderson was 30 years old at the time and did such a great job with the movie, he insisted to have as much practical effects as possible, his vision of the movie was much bigger around 3h of movie but was heavily cut down leaving us with the question, what would be like. In the extras he mentioned that to make another director's cut now will be a nightmare because all of the footage is on VHS tapes and they might not even exist no more, reason for that is, at the time dvd was not standard for movies and was not considered to keep extra footage for bonus material on disc, and so it probably got discarded.
The performance of the actors is excelent, some say the Director will make sure it will be excelent.
As expected the CGI effects look dated but the practical effects they held pretty good, and I am glad that the Director chose the practical effects over the CGI witch was in their early stages.
The horror aspect of the movie is mediocre by today's standards but the atmosphere and plot held up good more than 20 years later, so I would recommend to watch the movie on a clear sky night with friends that you usually debate subjects.
ENJOY!!!
The story is somewhat unique thanks to the space aspect and on the other hand is simple and easy to understand, but it is not predictibile that is for sure, it will surprise you all the way, even though it is a 1997 movie.
Our Director Paul Anderson was 30 years old at the time and did such a great job with the movie, he insisted to have as much practical effects as possible, his vision of the movie was much bigger around 3h of movie but was heavily cut down leaving us with the question, what would be like. In the extras he mentioned that to make another director's cut now will be a nightmare because all of the footage is on VHS tapes and they might not even exist no more, reason for that is, at the time dvd was not standard for movies and was not considered to keep extra footage for bonus material on disc, and so it probably got discarded.
The performance of the actors is excelent, some say the Director will make sure it will be excelent.
As expected the CGI effects look dated but the practical effects they held pretty good, and I am glad that the Director chose the practical effects over the CGI witch was in their early stages.
The horror aspect of the movie is mediocre by today's standards but the atmosphere and plot held up good more than 20 years later, so I would recommend to watch the movie on a clear sky night with friends that you usually debate subjects.
ENJOY!!!