Some things I liked some I did not.

Brilliant and touching

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

before you read this just Know I adore all things sci-fi, however here I must draw a lineWhen I first picked up this movie my first reaction was "Well this might be half interesting, but I'll give it a go" Never have I been so wrong. After the first 15 minutes I was left sitting there wondering how any of what I was watching won any awards at all.After enduring the entirety of the film I was left wondering why a fan flick made it onto DVD. The CGI wasn't half bad though, some rather nice cut-scenes as well however the inescapable fact remains. This was a horrible film with very little plot.I can see what they were going for though, a federation which is like a mash-up between Firefly & Starship Troopers coupled with ships modeled after X-Wings, Wraith cruisers crossed with Star Trek federation type ships with a little Battle Star Galactica thrown in & a bad guy that resembled a religious version of Palpatine. It just screams FAN MADE MOVIE, honestly if I had of encountered it on a fan flick site I would have given it a much higher and glowing review because for a fan made movie I would give it a solid 7/10 however this is not confined to the sci-fi pages of the internet.Albeit after the first half hour or so if you lower your standards enough and don't expect much from it, try easing yourself into it a bit it make for a mediocre time killer at best, although I would have rather just re-watched Firefly or Starship Troopers as it turns out.

Something to watch if you are very bored. Needs quite a bit of improvements... Noticed a mouthpiece for snorkeling on main character and the extend use of corrugated tubing in a lot of props and bots. Spaceship looks OK, but should have more close ups to show some idea of the size... was difficult to figure out how large each ship were.Costumes were really put together last minute or something. The use of paintball mask is not recommended.Do appreciate some of the nice looking actresses. A little less of costumes to reveal their physique would add some of interesting points on the actors. Looks like they were all clothed in dark attire.

In the first half hour, there are many similarities to the 'classic' British science fiction show.References to titles such as 'Supreme Commander' and planets such as 'Gauda Prime'.That's without the fact that Blakes 7 was all about rebelling against the Federation, the Federations control centre was called 'Star One' - similar to 'Starship One'......................Blakes 7 had the Terra Nostra.Could be coincidence, but as others have said, the film comes across as a fan pic (albeit with some good CG-I).

This movie screams 'Student film project', except that most student film projects have a concept of what they are trying to do.So you have some passable space scenes between an incomprehensible plot. There's apparently two factions of humanity, one some weird empire and the other a weird space religion based on abusing women so they all hate men. Or something.And apparently the evil space empire entrusts their best weapon to the son of a political dissident.So what we have are excuses for space battle scenes that are probably the only somewhat good thing in this movie. The acting is dreadful.