Another film with minor genre potential falling flat on it's fat f**king face. The unholy progeny of Event Horizon, Aliens and The Descent, although nowhere near as good as that might suggest. In fact, what it really reminds me of is a generic first person sci-fi shooter. You know the kind...where you are wandering around dimly-lit beige spaceship corridors replacing battery coils and hitting switches to activate reactors and so on while Dennis Quaid stays on the bridge and whispers sweet nothings into your earpiece and asks you to fix the coolant leaks on level 3 .. "I'm a soldier not a f**king plumber" you might cry...but this is space, and no- one can hear you scream. So...the story. Dennis Quaid and some other vaguely familiar bloke awake from hypersleep on a giant spaceship, they seem alone, they are not, something has happened to all the other passengers...it appears they have all (a) died (b) gone feral or (c) devolved into some breed of deformed aggressive mutant
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D-Quaid...I have to say, the guy must really be hitting the yakults and jogging, he appears to be aging incredibly slowly. And the movie itself...seems a lot longer than 100 mins or so. I feel asleep watching it the first time, came back to it the next day and was amazed to find I still had nearly 50 minutes to go! The last 20 minutes or so pick up a bit, but the first hour is just tedious, badly paced, strangely edited and irritating.... There is an explanation as to why everything on the ship has gone as mental as it has, but its completely incomprehensible. The enemy mutants are a fairly generic lot of bald spikey carnivores and the heroes are a tedious bunch. If you manage to avoid (hyper)sleep during this mess you are doing better than me. So well done,
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