Nice effects though.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Got sold on 9.0 rating, one of the highest for TV series. Still can't wrap my head around this - How did that happened?? Bad acting, simplest and stupidest story line, not thrilling at all, the intro starts with favorite republican idea "... after the Earth got used up...". Etc., ect., ect.. And I could not find this one for free so I had to buy it for like $15! Not worth it.

Space western show about a bunch of smugglers, fugitives, outcasts and whores trying to make a living in a age of space colonisation - the new frontier. Comparisons can easily be made with the conquest of the American West after the defeat of the Confederacy, with a strong veneer of oriental culture, like there would be in the 1850's San Francisco: The character of Inara, for exemple, is closer to a traditional geisha rather than a common brothel worker. Curse words are wisely uttered in chinese (I don't know which form). But it doesn't take part in the XIXth century, rather in the XXIVth. The show's change of setting can be surprising when they enter a core planet and a more typical sci-fi environment, but it's done with a certain grace and no contrasts are too violent. The premise is about as acceptable as that of Star Wars, where backwater colony worlds rub shoulders with ecumenopolis, if narrower in scope in Firefly.The vilain are not the Alliance itself, represented as a slow, bureaucratic and rules-heavy version of passive facism and neo-liberalism, but rather free entrepreneurs, ruthless ranchers, greedy governors, rival bands of smugglers, shifty underworld bosses and rogue military/scientific outfits. Sometimes it's the main characters themselves. The show carries a "shades of grey" outlook, but the values it favours are quite traditional and the good sides usually wins.Among the most pleasant aspects are the chemistery between well-directed actors, sharp dialogues and the fact that it doesn't take itself too seriously (qualities inherent to every JW production), which makes it agreable to see. There's also some action of the heist-kind, but it isn't just an explosions and CGI spectacle. It's pretty clean - no blood nor sex, althought there are references a plenty and some gore as part of scenery rather than as a result of on-screen violence.The less pleasant aspects include the inability to do things "out of the box" and offer something really new - but that's the prviledge of just a handful of great shows, historic ones. We can't ask for a masterpiece in every production. The other one is more subjective - it's Nathan Fillion as the captain. I just can't put the finger on what hicks me in his performence (the word "square" comes to mind), but if a huge enough part of the people think like me, that might have stole some thunder from the show. He isn't bad - in fact he is even good. But I just don't think I would have chosen him to be the star of my show - furthermore besides Morena Baccarin. The sets are somewhat bland.The lesser sides are quite minor, as you can see. From there, it's a matter of tastes, but western aficionados will be better served than hardcore sci-fi ones. The fact that this serie was cancelled way before it matured makes that many of the subplots that were growing their course here and there will never be explored, but still, everybody will have a great time watching this promising effort, so bring out the wife and the kids.

If this show had of been made by anyone else it would have faded into obscurity quite fast. It's not great Sci-Fi by any stretch, and it's not compelling viewing by any stretch. If you want that sort of thing from this era, start with Star Trek Voyager, Stargate-SG1, Babylon 5, and even Farscape. Amazingly all of these very solid Sci-Fi shows have lower ratings on IMDb than this. Very typical material for Joss Whedon, who has made some very entertaining shows, but all with an element of cheese. This is no exception. Good if you want some disposable entertainment and to look and some attractive people for a while, but not particularly worthwhile beyond that.

The best TV show of the last 20 years, and they canceled it after 1 series!! Please please please please do the fans justice, make more firefly!!!! It has it all drama, comedy, action, so well written it really is a shame we can't enjoy more, in my opinion the best sci fi show since quantum leap!! It combines two great genre's sci fi and western and the chicks are hot too