Movies

Serenity Review

This was a good movie that was made only due to fans on the Net and DVD sales. Personally, it kinda reminds me of Star Trek, in that fans got producers to make a movie after the original TV series was cancelled, although it took far longer for Trekkies.

Basically, the movie, like the TV series Firefly, is set about 500 years in the future, after mankind has spread out into the universe and has terra-formed dozens of planets. The crew of Serenity, is a band of ne-er do wells, former rebels and criminals who cruise the fringes of explored space and find adventure. A quick voice over in the beginning gives the uninitiated the basics, so if you've never seen Firefly, you don't have to worry.

The movie has its moments and there is plenty of action and some funny one-liners, ala Indiana Jones, which helps when the movie's pace slows down for a while in the middle. All in all, it is a good, solid movie which probably won't do much business because no one seems to know about it.