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A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Too much mysticism and symbolism destroys a potential masterpiece. Marc Caro took top actors and put them in a very promising environment: a lonely space station with psychotic prisoners. But then, things go downwards. Too many repetitions of the same emotions, unexplained narratives, personalities that are at once interesting but without proper development. The end is very bad too and not even a budget cut by 50% can explain that. The movie wanted to be intelligent, make You think, but the mixture does not work, they do not need science fiction elements to show messianism and the topos of shouldering the burden of evil. Dante 01 is one big disappointment. Any other similar production like "Event Horizon", "Resident Evil" or even "Ghosts of Mars", "Mutant Chronicles" or "Doom" are more fun to watch.5/10

This is most interesting movie. Since the acting is so fine I didn't have to pay attention to it and the visual aspect of the film is goddamn gorgeous, I'll move to the focus point of the film which is clearly missed for many individuals.This is a story which has been told times and times again. It's stated right in the start of the movie and it refers to the journey within. That means it is metaphoric representation of one's struggle inside his psyche, against his own sources of suffering and discomfort. But, for a change, this ain't done in the style of the Joseph Campbell's monomyth. It is done in the old good sense of psychoanalytic representation. It is supremely obvious if the viewer has done the process - not the analysis, necessarily, but struggled with the forces within. Let me explain this a bit.The prisoners, which are named among clearly simplified figures which clarify their status in the set of unconscious (ie. repressed) forces - or 'characters'. These are the needs and wants people generally don't want to admit in them, as to include them to your own ego-view of yourself: for example, the Buddha who wants to thinks he is helping people when hurting them for his own pleasure. Or the little Caesar, who is totally absorbed in having control over others and gets his pleasure in subjugating them. (i have only 1.000 words so cutting the list here, you can spot the rest yourself) Now the protagonist isn't the analyst - the healer as someone other person - but he is the manifestation of that will of one's that is set on the move when one is going after his "unconscious". It is the required agent that is ready to take the heat without being burned - and even when the forces overpower him, he (the will to go for it to the end) is able to restore himself. Ie. after defeat one cannot surrender but keep on going. It represents also the aspect of psychic/spiritual 'enlightenment' where one has to be willing to die, in a sense, to be able to reborn as something other than were before.The nanobots, which seem to be about to kill the person who is infected, represent the climax of the process: one is in horrible pains before he is finally able to let go of the alien thing - alien force - inside him that is tainting his soul. Alien in the sense of foreign for oneself, not E.T. So, our hero is able to see through the surface, through the facade of these suffering prisoners, straight 'into their hearts' and spot the dark thing that haunts them. And take it into himself, eat it up. That is: liberate the forces the character represents so that they are no longer fixated but are part and able to serve the whole - not just pursuing their own 'pleasure in pain' without any concern about what it means to other( interest)s. The prison is the unconscious, prisoners are habitats of it, and the doctors who are 'in control' are the ego. And sleeping gas is their only tool..One who listens is the one who understands what is going on, ie. Persephone. She who lives part of her time in the underworld. "The door should have opened and left open years ago", she says. The gap - the blockade, the barricade - between ego and the unconscious. The new nurse and Persephone can represent both the biological and psychoanalytical perspectives, but also one's own stance towards problems: to medicate it away or to figure it out.Attila is the side of us which is willing to give up anything and everything but the suffering which is so dear to us. This is the pilot of the "In Therapy" who in the end kills himself rather than confront himself and what he is and what he has done.The whole complex is in orbit of burning magma, that is macrocosmic metaphor for being stuck and bound to something which you can't go near but which you can't abandon, either. That is, the cause of our suffering. Everyone has his/her own, and to be set free is to subjectify it. Become it, and thus absorb it's power over oneself.

What we all have feared ,hoping that it will never materialize, unfortunately occurred,namely, a French Sci-Fi film,and , yes , it is in the misty nebulae of deeper than the deepest philosophical meanings , interpretations and Lacan-like conclusions ! There is a top security space vessel with the skeleton crew ,but there are no wardens, only a trio of psychiatrists and a bunch of supposedly utterly murderously fixated criminals,whose crime history we never get to learn about,but they are all blessed with religiously –intelectually – deadly seriously sounding names , namely : Persefone , Lazare ,Moloch, Buddha ! to name but a few and this merry-go round starts spinning at incredible speed with the arrival of a prisoner-patient ,who is emitting a sort of religious aura-energy ,and is immediately christened by one of the prisoners as Saint Chrostopher ,who has finally arrived to save them … From something …And then we are left to witness and sigh with bottomless wonder and awe at the endless walks through corridors ,suspiciously resembling the interiors in the Cube series ,and a trio of aforementioned controllers ,who are supposedly controlling something…From someone … And then the course of the ship is changed ,and … the volcano-looking planet ,around which the station rotates,is transformed through the ' deus-et-machina ' intervention by the aforementioned Saint-dude into an Earth-looking planet no less ! And ,yes, if you haven't been annoyed / irritated / depressed enough by this , there is another mind-wrecking surprise in store , namely a narrator , Persefone in person – as a comic relief ? – who is trying to add a necessary element of terrifying explanations ,as unfortunately there is no place for free-wheeling sex (the sexes look the same here ,mind you !) .This movie rejects everything the American , well, the only quality science-fiction genre has produced so far , instead opting for the worst of the worst , namely Russian Tarkovsky-like products ( e.g. Stalker , Solaris ) ,while it also steals from Kubrick's Odyssey series. You have been properly warned , and if you have to , watch without , God forbid , a female companion , specially if you wish to impress upon her ! Better show her a Shaq comedy ! With his size shoes !

(this is spoiler-free) I count "Delicatessen" and "La Cite des Enfants Perdus" as some of my favorite movies of all time. Interestingly, I didn't know Caro had directed this and watched it by accident. I therefore didn't have any expectations set, but in theory it should have been a good surprise.Well, it wasn't. I heard the movie was released with zero press and that Caro disowned it, blaming the editing. Not surprised one bit - it's a terrible movie indeed and I'm flabbergasted someone like Caro could be behind it.The storyline is laughable - leave your brains at the door please. The ending in particular is just pathetic - it's as if they had run out of ideas and came up with the most ridiculous deus ex machina of all time. I was left gob-smacked for all the wrong reasons.Worst of all, and inexcusably, Dante is a visual failure. Several bits of footage are reused at times, stock-footage style. It's very noticeable, and incredibly grating towards the end. The whole thing has the feel of a cheap afternoon TV movie despite the decent CGI.The actors are actually quite good and do the best they can to salvage this disaster. However, they can only do so much and frankly, there's very little to salvage.Avoid.