One of my all time favorites.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

So imagine you have a great idea for a sci-fi movie. You wright down a rough concept. You start to flesh it out till you have a pretty solid concept, involving a story that spans generations and seeks to show a new concept on the whole state of humanity and reality. Then you sit down to write the script. Face with the challenge of including your concept into dialogue, things get difficult. So then, you just say "screw it," and haphazardly mesh your raw concept into the movie using the worst trick in the book: voice-over narration.This is how I feel this movie came about. The story seems like it would be interesting, but, honestly, I could write a better script in my sleep. The characters are shallow, static, and the acting... oh, the acting. I couldn't empathize with any of the characters because I was too busy laughing at their reactions (or lack there of) to events.The camera work at times made no sense and took me completely out of the story. For example: Why do we need a zoom out to see two planets, just to have the camera go back to Mara in the desert? Why couldn't we see her communing with the planet, and just cut that bit of narration? Oh yeah, because we'd rather just have more crappy special effects and narration than have an actor play the planet spirit.Also, just let me note that any given episode of Stargate SG-1 had a lower budget than this movie and still managed to pull off better effects. And the show started nine years before this was released. Hell, the PlayStation 1 title "Colony Wars" (also released in '97) has a more intriguing story AND better effects.The only reason I rated this so high is because I can see a pretty interesting concept in the narration. But this film is marred by horrid writing, unconvincing acting, odd camera work, weird scenes, useless characters, and almost no thought put into it's execution. I'd say watch it for a laugh, but it gets too boring to laugh at half way through, so just stay away all together.

I have never written a review before for any movie, but this atrocity deserves one, even if it will save someone else. Some girl tells us about her mother's life and then the universe restarts. This 12 year old girl, which is how old she was when she started to travel in space attempted to travel through time. No time travel was not a common thing, so I can only assume she invented a time machine of sorts or at least figured out how to do it. Some people gave this film high reviews. I am sure they are cast members of the film. Either way they need to break down the film to the rest of us if there is some hidden message. The story could have been good had there been any consistency, but too many things just did not make sense. 1.Refusal to kill the traitor. 2.Suddenly strapped to a rocket, and then suddenly free again. There was no buildup. It is like you are walking down the street and then suddenly you are tied to a chair, then you are free again. I am not exaggerating. She was not captured or coerced. She just instantly appeared strapped to a rocket. I had to rewind it 3 times to make sure I did not miss anything. 3.There are more, but I have wasted enough time on this movie.

I was so pleased to watch a film like this after suffering through a weekend of paltry B-movie Sci-Fi films at the urging of my buddies. Honestly some of the reviewers here are very disgusted with this film... it looks to me like the producers have a few enemies out there. Many reviews I see are not reviews, but general abuse that do not pertain to this film. If you compare this to something like "War of the Planets" or "Recon 2020", that we also watched on the same day, you will see a world of differences. I mean something like War of the planets, also produced in the same year, does NOT compare.Battlespace is almost an art film in the way it portrays Humanity's evolution. It resembles 2001, A Space Odyssey in its cerebral outlook and visionary excellence. While not a big budget, it dares to aspire to something more than just a film. I have watched this five times, and every time since, i have seen and heard new things.Though it details Mara Shryyke, a space-borne colonel who has to stop a missile launch, it shows a fascinating treatise on a future history. I am not going to give the story away, but if you enjoyed more intellectual Sci-Fi films like Cube, or Pi, then this is for you. Those who don't get it, should go back to drinking beers on their farm, and let the rest of us travel to the stars.Oh, by the way, the girl in the film is hot hot hot!!!!

Let me break down this film for you...The first fifteen minutes are a showcase for terrible special effects. I'm not one to nitpick about special effects, but what you've got to understand is that if you can't afford good special effects, you shouldn't anchor your film around special effects. Starships fire blobs of color at each other, flaring into stock explosions, and careening past moons with polygon counts low enough to count with your fingers. You will have no idea what is happening. It will not make sense.The second act involves a woman walking in the desert. At this point you will be treated to drab scenery, and illogical, boring fight scenes. Nobody speaks. Nothing interesting happens. The protagonist's goals are unclear, and are not very compelling. This goes on for about 45 minutes.Then in a five-minute montage, she sneaks into an enemy base, straps herself to a rocket, tries to destroy a doomsday weapon, fails, and dies.None of this has any bearing on the eventual direction of the film.In the last twenty minutes, basically the chick's memories get transferred to her daughter, who goes into stasis for a very large number of years, learning the secrets of mankind. After this, we see the first, and last five-minute segment of human interaction in the film, then the new heroine is forced to choose whether she wants to become part of the material that causes the big bang or not. You know. Because when the universe is collapsing, you get to decide if you want to be a part of it.She chooses yes. BUT THE MEMORIES OF MANKIND SURVIVE IN A CAPSULE. Maybe we won't make the same mistakes again, huh? If you like movies with characters, then this is not a good movie for you. The lead roles could have been fulfilled nicely by any old wind-up toy capable of staying right-side-up while walking through sand. All of the story is told through painfully dull narration.The film tries to seem deep by throwing together a whole bunch of undeveloped science-fiction ideas. There are enough concepts here to fuel a number of films, but as it stands, it's bloated with completely irrelevant details. Two-thirds of this film could have been reduced to a 45-second montage. Instead, the narrator fills in a novella's worth of backstory without ever giving us a reason to care what happens to the characters.There are good ideas in here, but nobody watches films to see ideas ineptly explained. People watched films to be entertained. This film does not entertain.