His novel, ramblings, and assorted fictions coalesce at You can email him here. Steven Lloyd Wilson is a hopeless romantic and the last scion of Norse warriors and the forbidden elder gods. PARENTAL CONCERNS: Strong violence, Some foul languageįAVORITE QUOTE: Whatever Happens… We’ll Be On The Wrong Side Of History. Originally reviewed for its theatrical release in March of 2021, Cosmic Sin is now on Netflix. Do not bother to even watch it on streaming. It is barely worth mentioning.īottom line, Cosmic Sin is a waste of time. Kane seemed to be the only one interested in her role and it shows because she does her best with her lines, but they fail her. Grillo and Willis seemed to just yawn through their roles. Granted, they are being attacked by aliens, but it is not an organic drop of a story-arc, it just sort of disappears.Īs for the acting, you can tell the actors were just phoning it in for the paycheck. The characters are all aghast that he would be picked to be a part of the team, but they almost seem to forget. The only interesting aspect was Bruce Willis’ character and his career conflicts with the rest of the crew. The story is so convoluted and confusing I do not where to begin. Unfortunately, I would not say that is the correct definition, but since I cannot think of another one, we will go with “movie” or “film.” They said this was a movie and I was willing to believe them. Armed with a “Q Bomb,” Ford debates whether repeating history is worth stopping a war. Perry), they find the planet under siege by the aliens. Traveling to 4217LYA with Eron’s son Braxton (Brandon Thomas Lee), Ford’s sidekick Dash (Corey Large), engineer Corporal Fiona Ardene (Adelaide Kane), and soldier Sol Cantos (C.J. It soon realized the miners were suffering from an infection. After some of the miners come through a wormhole, they attack the soldiers, who kill the intruders. In the year 2524, the human race has fully colonized space, with a government entity called the Alliance having been set. Ford demands reinstatement of his rank and pension for helping. Cosmic Sin does eventually attempt an epic climactic battle between man and alien, but since Drake and company have given us cardboard cut-outs instead of characters and no thematic meat to chew on, it’s all just a numbing cacophony of futuristic gunfire, aesthetically recalling an uncool version of Tron crossed with any number of Marvel movies. His latest, Cosmic Sin, now blasts this aggressively lazy shtick into outer space, making it hard to imagine that at one point in the past a goofy misfire like Battlefield Earth was considered the nadir of sci-fi filmmaking. Ford was relieved of command years ago during a war when he dropped a “Q Bomb” on the enemy, ending the war but causing civilian casualties. Lea Goss (Perrey Reeves) to gather more information and also tells his men to track down disgraced General James Ford ( Bruce Willis). Back on Earth, General Eron Ryle ( Frank Grillo) is made known of the situation. The Vander Mining Corp has a station there that reports first contact with an alien lifeform. In the year 2524, the Earth united as the Alliance and has expanded its operations into deep space planet 4217LYA. I would like to say that I could support this theory with evidence like a moral argument of whether or not genocide should happen, a clashing of pacifist and violent ideologies, or anything that would make any thematic sense, but alas, nothing in this film makes any sense.Edward Drake directed and co-wrote ‘Cosmic Sin,’ a science fiction thriller distributed by Saban Films. Though the “plot” of the film is about a group of soldiers trying to prevent a war and then eventually thinking they accidentally did start a war, it turns out the aliens they’re facing were always planning on killing them. I will say though, that it seems the film is pro-war. Combine this utter nonsensical plotting with the lack of character or any emotion whatsoever, and you get to a point where you’re only focusing on the pretty colors and tuning out the dialogue altogether. The story puts in so much effort to make its story possible, taking a complicated, convoluted route instead of the simplest path. I wish I understood what was happening in this movie, but I’m afraid to ask for help without getting bombarded with so much useless worldbuilding. BAM, BOP, ZIP, POW, things happen, explosions happen, then aliens(?) show up again! The characters continuously say “quantum” like it means something. Soon after, Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo's characters have a meeting, leading to a quantum jump into space, but I'm unclear if they're time traveling. Two people are about to get "intimate" only to have an alien(?) kill(?) them, then the alien(?) causes people to become ill and transform into zombie-like beings that can shoot weapons. Bruce Willis falls from the sky, with random facts about the history of the world they're set in.
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