Budget: unknown
Directed By: John Suits
Jeez Bruce whats going on buddy, you
have two extremes going on in the same
vein at the moment.
One hand you have Nic Cage churning out
DTV films with his mad little Nic Cage style.
Despite the low budget, crazy ass stories
this guy finds himself in he still brings it to
the table. Seems to still be enjoying his job.
Now on the other foot you have a similar story
With old Bruce, he's churning out at least
2-3 STV films a year lately. Except I've noticed
He just seems to be going through the motions
Bruce is playing a tired a old Bruce Willis.
Now don't get me wrong I'm not saying Nic isn't
playing a old Nic Cage in everything.
In fact I assume to Nic this is just all happening
around him and he's just existing in it lol.
Oh and Thomas Jane is in here too, getting a paycheck for 5 minutes work with the most abysmal acting I've ever seen. Anyway lets get on with the film shall we?
Right so we see a ship that's bound for leaving a dying earth, some guy is trying to get on with his pregnant girlfriend. His girlfriend just happens to be Thom Janes characters daughter, who is the captain and commander of the ship. He lets them on, he doesn't really know the guy is the father of the baby and doesn't seem to really like him but lets him stay aboard. I'm sure I seen this scene because it comes up again later in something odd that doesn't make sense.
Anyway most of the crew and passengers go into cryosleep for the voyage to a new planet they are colonising. Someone plants some icky black fluid on the wall that eventually breaks out, it is ferofluid, no it really is, but in the film it is some alien parasite but like also evil distilled.
BW is a maintenance worker and the lad, Noah who is also masquerading as a maintenance/cleaner go about their business cleaning as their 'assigned' jobs. Both become suspicious of each other Noah thinks BW, Clay is a saboteur when he see's him collecting parts and chemical to make what he thinks is a bomb. Clay see's that Noah has no experience at all doing anything so is suspicious due to that.
Anyway Clay is just making bootleg booze with a still for all the other awake crew members, he follows Noah after questioning him about stuff to see that he's trying to enter his credential as a worker in the computer database. Noah gets arrested as a stowaway, even threatened to be killed later because of this, I dont get why he doesn't just say I'm with the captains daughter, he let me onboard?
Buuut It's movie I suppose. That's the problem with this film its all over the place with it's writing. Anyway people start getting taken over by the ferofluid zombies who occasionally have the strength to punch clean through someone, then other times just above normal human strength or equal.
They spend a good protion of the film trying to come up with an idea to save people in cryo and stay locked in a security room.
After one of the guys says it was him who planted the evil juice as they don't deserve a second chance. Noah uses vents to wake up the captain who uses uber weapons and marines to try and fight the ferozombies. They just keep coming like they always have though until Thom blows himself and all of them up with a grenade. This has been their plan all along though and now all fuse into a big wobbly mess monster and start commanding people infected to leap into the warp reactor.
apparently human flesh is a great accelerant and the ship in pushed to and beyond max speed. The surviving crew members surmise they want to get to the new planet to infect that world too.
Earlier they noticed one of the cleaning fluids did away with the ferozombies and somehow incorporae it into some flame throwers. Clay get thrown around a bit as he helps Noah and pregnant GF escape in an escape pod then blows up the ship.
Now that's not the end theres a bit of a twist ending that I won't spoil because this film isn't great no but it's also not so bad enough that deserves spoiling, as, to me, The guy playing Noah really does seem to be putting his all into the role where the likes of BW and TJ are just sleepwalking through. Also it's kind of Lovecraftian, the cosmic horror takes a while to really get going but it's full on in the last few minutes of the film.
THN awards Breach 2020, a weak 2 out of 5 stars, watch if theres literally nothing else on or if your still a hardcore Bruce fan.
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