Simply A Masterpiece

Admirable film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Let's get this right of the bat - the CGI animation is awful in this. It looks bad, it moves bad, it syncs to the dialogue bad. And the dialogue really isn't great either, there's some really clunky exposition early on, and some of the back and forths just really don't make sense. The occasional attempts at humor fall flat, and it feels very much like it's written by video game writers, with a lot of the dialogue sounding fine if this was the occasional in between battle banter, but back to back to back it just feels extra clunky.The pros are occasionally impressive. The 2D animation flashbacks are really well done stylistically, and the movement is pretty good. The dialogue versions of PTSD really don't work at all, with the character who lost his daughter really not sounding that sad or crazy, just pretty flat, but the visual representations of his hallucinations are impressive. But every time the movie started to impress me, it switched back to the 3D style that looks worse than student projects I've seen. I'm not sure if the dialogue is really worse during these scenes than the flashbacks or if I'm just so turned away by what I'm seeing that it feels worse, but I can tell you several of the worst clichés occur during these CGI scenes. The worst part is that the 3D scenes add *nothing*. Adding about 5 minutes of dialogue to the flashbacks and making them more chronological would've produced something cohesive and probably in the 7/10 range. As is, though, most of the attempts to create anything "scary" or impactful are done in awful CGI, which just takes so much away from the viewing experience that I did not have any sort of a pleasant time.

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.

It's hard for me to understand why this movie has so bad reviews. After watching Downfall, I watched Aftermath with many reserves. But... I was gladly surprised! It is true that the CGI segments were the worse part of it, but the structure of this film is very much like the short "Have I Got a Story For You" from Batman: Gotham Knight, where you get to see the same story from different perspectives, all of them animated by different studios. And all of them were really good! The characters are well defined, and they have more believable motivations. Overall, the film lets us understand much better the story connecting the space monsters and the Marker (monolith).The story is so much more consistent than it is on Downfall. I really think all the video game fans should at least give it a try.

The writing didn't make any sense. The story had nothing to do with the original. By the plot of this one I'd be surprised that anyone on the crew of this movie saw the original movie.In the Dead space - Downfall it was more a good vs. evil kind of theme, but in aftermath it just seemed like another poorly written 80's space horror movie. There was no resolve, the properties of artifact were rewritten for this movie in a less entertaining, and less interesting way.Whatever, I'm kinda cheesed that I wasted time watching this. I was hoping for some kind of cohesive connection between the two movies and I got nothing.