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Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This looks like a high school project. It could pass as one. As a real movie, it was probably made with 5-6 amateur "actors" and a guy knowledgeable in computer-generated special effects, equipped with a medium-priced PC from the year 2000. What it really is, is a very bad Star Trek copy. Totally uninspired, a story without an end, it's among the worst movies I've ever seen. I'd recommend everyone involved in this production to not make a movie if they don't at least have a good story to tell. There are movies out there without too much special effects, but they're a success nevertheless, due to a good story. This one has practically no story at all, and everything else is just awful.

The first time I put this on three of us started watching it and fell asleep. The second and third attempts resulted in the same fashion although we tried to pickup where we left off. Finally two of us were determined to finish the movie from beginning to end. We drank some caffeine and started watching it from the beginning. Just as we suspected it was very hard to keep concentrating on the video and stay awake.The plot is random events that appear to have no connection because they are unrelated. They were given one mission and I am not quite sure of the mission parameters. They must have been so secret that the writer kept it from the audience. The obvious size of the starship Odyssey should have had hundreds of crewmen aboard but we see a total of seven including the saboteur. The saboteur is so skillful in keeping his identity a secret, even when he shouts, "Long live the Empire!" on the bridge.The narrator states that faster than light travel is inexpensive in the future. That is pretty obvious when you see that the ship isn't constructed very well, since a single washer was able to almost cripple the ship.Much of this film's special effects are basic still shots panned or zoomed. At one point as the "Sanctuary AI" rambles on and on we are subjected to a slide show of still pictures with the AI tower pasted on them. The hand to hand fight scenes are much worse than backyard wrestling. Once a gun is introduced, they keep them in an unsecured open locker, the saboteur fails to kill anyone with it. The props such as the "Crone Detectors" were nothing more than a pair of welder goggles.A few flashbacks are inserted into the film but have no dialog or purpose. They resemble basic home movies of the Captain and his girl friend but we have no idea when or where they were at the time of the memory. The flashbacks serve no purpose other than time filler.The ending is left open, there is no conclusion, but there was no storyline to begin with. By the end of this film you are left with a sense that you could care less if these characters lived or died. In fact, we hope they died a horrible death.

I rented this movie from Redbox for a dollar, and even at that cut-rate price, I feel like they gypped me. Always looking for a story in space, I was immediately attracted to the words "Star Quest," which appeared in big letters on a beautifully-done cover. Well, as they say, never judge a book (or a DVD) by its cover. After watching this movie for five minutes, I found to my chagrin that, apparently, the majority of this movie's budget went into producing the cover art. Where should I start? How about the terrible fight scene at the beginning, between the star captain, and the Borg/Klingon knockoff guy? Strangely, the star captain never hit the other guy with his left hand, but still managed to hold his own against a guy who had 50 pounds and six inches on him. The CGI models were actually pretty nice for a low-budget film, but the motion was shot at such a low frame rate, that I felt like I was watching it on a View-Master, except without the cool 3-D effect. The costumes were laughable, but didn't hold that against the movie; I expect that of a movie with such lofty aspirations (sci-fi ain't cheap), but such a paltry budget. The acting was not really that bad; I think a competent director could have coaxed some decent performances out of the actors. The problem was that the directing was bad enough for me to suspect that there was no director at all! That really doesn't matter, though, because a Serpentor-like amalgam of the greatest directors in history couldn't even save this ragged screenplay. This movie's writing was so awful, that I doubt it would receive a passing grade in 9th grade English Composition class. This movie had no plot, the dialogue was little more than a string of clichés, there was no relatable characterization, there was nothing to connect one scene to the next, and it had NO ENDING! I'm not exaggerating; when the credits started running, I started to wonder if I had accidentally skipped to the next chapter!To tell the truth, the most enjoyment I got out of this travesty of film making was the gag reel, where one of the actors railed on one of the stagehands in a full-on cursing rant reminiscent of Christian-Bale.I'm really happy that advancing technology has made American movie distribution much more accessible to the little guy movie makers, but in my opinion, this movie is a flagrant abuse of those newfound freedoms. Cut it out.

I don't know if I should be angry with the producers so much as I am Redbox. It seems more of the budget was allocated to the cover than to the actual film. I had never seen or heard of this movie, and was simply hungry for a good scifi. I've seen some rather low budget films on Redbox before, but never quite this low. The rental should have been knocked down to at least 25%. Unfortunately, I'll probably fall victim to the same rouse again. The movie itself is not too terrible for such a low budget film, but it is pretty annoying when you're not expecting it. I guess it's the marketing that pisses me off. It wouldn't surprise me if this film will make more money off of unsuspecting customers than anything else.