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"Wing Commander" reminded me of "Starship
Troopers" without the arachnids. It's one of those by-the-book,
pathetically unoriginal sci-fi films for people who will watch
anything tawdry enough to be called sci-fi.
Although it contained a few mildly amusing moments, it was primarily a dull,
wearisome, uninspired movie. Freddie Prinze Jr., who isn't
much better here than he was in "She's
All That", plays Christopher "Maverick" Blair, a soldier
in an intergalactic space war. No one likes him because his
mother was a Pilgrim, the alien race they're fighting in this
war. Along with several other soldiers, he flies around in
little jet-machines that appear strikingly similar to the
army aircraft flown today (yet they fly from a huge space
station in the sky -- curious).
It's gratifying to note that some intergalactic wars make
great movie plots while others produce incredibly boring and
monotonous junk. The Star
Trek movies, for example, are a shining example of films
in which this plot is highly entertaining. "Starship Troopers",
the "Star Wars" films, and of course, "Wing Commander" are
examples of films in which this plot is irksome and useless.
Perhaps actors, and, even more importantly, the characters,
affect a film's entertainment value as much as or even more
than plot. Certainly the actors and characters could have
been better in "Wing Commander".
My rating: 2 stars
Rating : PG-13 (for sexual references and sci-fi action/violence)
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