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Cosmic Sin (R13, 88mins) Directed by Edward Drake * ½
Almost 500 years after humanity founded its first base outside of Earth and quantum propulsion technology allowed us to colonize the cosmos, a crisis is looming.
Two Vander Mining Corporation workers made the first contact, and it wasn’t exactly positive. There are fears, not just of contamination, but potentially of a full-scale war, requiring not only bringing in General Ryle (Frank Grillo) on his day off, but also disgraced ex-General “Blood” James Ford, who is retiring from your retirement.
“Half the world wants to fight him, the other half wants to buy him a drink,” says one soldier of the man who crushed a rebellion – and 70 million souls – by dropping a Q-bomb on a rogue colony five years earlier. Tonight, however, all hands are needed on deck, especially against beings with superhuman strength, black blood, and the ability to inhabit human bodies.
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Quickly dismissing any idea of diplomacy, Ryle, Ford, and a crack unit decide to take the fight to their opponents, intending to chase them back to their home planet, if necessary. Yet once vilified for his decision-making, Ford has a warning for his teammates. “Either way this works, we will be on the wrong side of history.”
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Those who expect Cosmic Sin to deliver out-of-this-world action, pyrotechnic mayhem, and the Bruce Willis lines will be disappointed.
Of all the shoddy sci-fi tales that have been unleashed in desperate Kiwi cinemas in the past year, Cosmic sin it is by far the worst. Set up as a kind of Aliens-Satisfies-Stargate through Avatarinstead it feels more like Land of the battlefield on a budget and does Event horizon It seems Alien in comparison, all with nothing to say, or much to do for its protagonists. Hell, at least the clumsy one Occupation: rain it had a bit of character.
Those hoping for out-of-this-world action, Willis’s pyrotechnic mayhem, and witty lines will be deeply disappointed. The short runtime mainly consists of our “heroes” sitting around a series of elaborately “dressed” warehouses debating their possible actions, before a brief getaway on an alien planet that looks suspiciously like a forest in Georgia.
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Cosmic Sin had the potential to be a great bad movie, if it weren’t so deadly boring and smelled so strongly of deja vu.
Only superfluous, laughable dialogues (“it’s just a quantum shift, it’s not like it’s rocket science”) and “aliens” that seem to have come from Michael Jackson. Suspense novel video – Cosmic sin it had the potential to be a great bad movie, if it weren’t so deadly boring and smelled so strongly of deja vu.
A presumption that you would have difficulty completing an episode of Twilight zone, lacks the subversive fun of a Starship troopers, the spectacle and the verve of a Independence DayHell, even the scope and (James) Spader of Stargate.
Grillo is woefully underused (go check it out on Boss level instead), while Willis looks bored.
Without joy, without soul and without emotions, Cosmic sin is best summed up in his own script during an early encounter between the polarizer Ford and another 26th-century bar patron: “Here we go, ruining another Friday night for everyone.”
