Pretty Good

A Brilliant Conflict

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

I admit to never having played the "Wing Commander" games. I might have, but I'm probably just thinking about another video game with live-action cutscenes. The only reason I'm not giving this a lower score is because I'm not a fan of the series. This must have hit a lot harder with those poor guys. The movie tells the story about people in space fighting aliens and that's about it. It was directed by Chris Roberts which changed a lot from the game even though Chris Roberts MADE the game.The worst character is this Maniac guy as he's so obnoxious and probably has the worst acting of anyone there. It's mostly just nothing but people sitting around and talking and even the battle scenes are incredibly dull. It doesn't help that the CGI looks fake. I wasn't able to follow the plot well simply because I was so uninvested I didn't really try. From what I heard, when Chris Roberts first saw the finished film, he actually CRIED. The aliens look like green bipedal tigers. *1/2

Let's be honest, 95% of the people who saw this in the theater only did so because it was the first movie to feature the Star Wars: Episode I trailer. Otherwise it's not worth the price of a ticket. I found this movie to be utterly unremarkable/unmemorable.Let's see...some good stuff: It's got some cool explosions in it, and some hilarious/awful overacting by Matthew Lillard. Freddie Prinze Jr. also does his best to be melodramatic, but I think Lillard has him beat. I kept waiting for Lillard to shout "GAME OVER, MAN, GAME OVER!"...that's about all his part missed. All in all, it's 2 hours of eye candy. But a good movie, it ain't.

Ten years after the Wing Commander released, it is still the best sci-fi movie ever made!It would have been fun with a renewal of this film for the story is great and I think it would be a hit movie.I like everything in this film from the actors to the effects and story. Given when the film was made, it is clearly the best film I've seen in the last 10 years! i would like to see more films and series like Wing Commander and Space above and beyond to come in the future! I hope that the film industry is listening to us sci-fi enthusiasts! But no more Steven Spielberg series because he destroys everything he does.

This is not a Academy Award winner, nor is it an example of fine acting, nor is it a riveting plot with significant ties to philosophy, life, God, blah blah blah blah ... it's an action/sci-fi movie, so please leave your brain at door and just enjoy this for what it is.I'm a fan of the Starship Troopers type genre (book was first, movie later) - lots of action, leave brain at door, watch the effects, enjoy the 2 hours of reckless fun! This film, like Starship and others like it, is *just* a fun film to enjoy! I never played the game - and this is the crux of my review - I played something else that seems to predate Wing Commander: "Descent: Freespace - The Great War". I couldn't help but think that there was SO much reference to everything about Freespace, it wasn't funny. The ships, the enemy, jump points, literally everything. It was like watching a movie of the game I just played. BTW, I still play Freespace from time to time - it's good fun.I did briefly enjoy the "role reprisal" of Jürgen Prochnow in "Das Boot" - "reload tubes 1 and 2, fire when ready": said almost the same line in both movies.Anyway, I enjoyed it; give it another go and see!