What a waste of my time!!!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The animation is good, done in the Animatrix style, where different studios create different parts of the film. The story is typical mystical alien horror, akin to Event Horizon and the terror runs deep. Unfortunately, there isn't much in the way of character development. The story is interesting, but all characters are cardboard and rather inconsistent.Bottom line: better than most live actors horrors, but not by much. Perhaps knowing the Dead Space universe would have helped me enjoy it more. As it is, with a mix of recycled ideas taken from Alien, The Thing and Event Horizon, it's only nice to look at.

Dead Space: Aftermath is the second animated film based on the Dead Space franchise,the first was the surprisingly good Dead Space Downfall. Whilst this entry into the franchise is not as good as the previous film, it is still enjoyable to watch and will please fans.The plot of Aftermath revolves around four surviving crew members of the USG O'Bannon,a ship which becomes host to another Necromorph outbreak. They are rescued by Government officials and interrogated (rather brutally)in order to discover how the outbreak occurred. This consists of four flashbacks from each survivor, each one using a different animation style. These flashbacks are arguably the best segments of the film, each one has its own unique style which reflects the thoughts of the survivor.The sections of the film which take place in the present use CGI which results in some rather poor facial expressions and wooden animation. It would have been more sensible for the filmmakers to forgo this CGI and make these segments using the animation used in Dead Space: Downfall.The voice acting is pretty good and includes a solid cast including Christopher Judge and Gwendoline Yeo. When not animated using CGI, the characters look impressive and more realistic, however, as the film uses different styles for each flashback, the characters change their appearance which can be confusing for some. It's frankly ridiculous that Nolan Stross is a thin man in one flashback, then has a six pack in another.One disappointment I had with the film was the lack of the Necromorphs themselves. They only start to appear about 3/4 of the way through the film and sometimes it's a blink and you miss it moment. Only three Necromorphs from the games are present, the rest are new versions which whilst suitably gruesome looking, don't have the same impact as the fan favorites. The film is suitably bloody and gory, even without their presence but I wanted them to have more screen time.Fans of Dead Space (like me) will enjoy this film which does answer questions and plot holes from the original game. Viewers who haven't played the games will struggle to understand what is going one at times and in all honesty, the film doesn't really give an explanation. If you are prepared to deal with the poor CGI animation and confusing plot, you will find a decent animated film.It's not as good as Downfall but Aftermath is a decent film that will please fans of the Dead Space franchise. The flashbacks are well animated, the voice acting is good and it doesn't hold back on the gore, regardless of the lack of Necromorphs.

DEAD SPACE: AFTERMATH was a rather big disappointment compared to DEAD SPACE: DOWNFALL, Even though DOWNFALL was no breakthrough epic in animation, it was still pretty good, it was more of a good versus evil type story and it managed to build tension through the use of great sound effects and had characters that you did grow to care about.In AFTERMATH you have a plot told in four different perspectives from four central characters, an approach to storytelling I'm not to particularly fond of because here the central characters are each interrogated and each time the action heats up we go back to the interrogation part where they bring in another character to be interrogated before we can get back to the main plot and every time this happens you'll find yourself going "Get on with it already." I admit I've only played the first DEAD SPACE so far but other reviewers have already said that the people who made this film probably didn't play the game, I'm inclined to agree with them.

I find it strange that it has gotten so many negative reviews, people if you don't like gore + animation, don't watch this movie!!! This is a good entertaining movie especially as a dead space fan. Although i got a bit disappointed about the the animations of the 4 surviving crew members getting interviewed, this was a hell of a good movie!You like downfall you will surely like this as well, its pretty much the same gore except for more evolved creatures, than the past movie.You have to see the first movie in-order to understand the plot of this movie, as a suggestion play the game as well, the ending scene was pretty awesome :)