Friday, November 21, 2008

[Movie review] DeadSpace : Downfall

 Just finished watching DeadSpace. Its an Animation movie.





Director : Chuck Patton
Genre: Animation + Horror + Sci-Fi
Runtime: 74 min
Tagline: Meet Your Maker.

     I've no idea how tag line is related to whole movie... There is no mention of 'maker' in movie . Dead Space : Downfall is one of the goriest movie I've watched in long time. Even for an animation movie it's got lots of blood and violence. Though animation and background score is average and a little scary, the story failed to impress me. Most of the story elements are from 'The Thing' and 'Alien'. There is a DeadSpace game too, but I am yet to get my hands on it.

  Animation : It is 2-Dimensional animation movie. And believe me, voice overs and animation as a
whole is quite mediocre. Last 2D animation I watched was Next-Avengers, and it was far better. Action scenes looks exciting at first, all the blood, guts cutting, slashing of bodies but after the first few
disembowelments and decapitations I started to lose interest. The animation reminded me of Eon
Flux and thats a BAD thing

  Music : Just as I said earlier- average. Nothing ground-breaking. A little scary in action sequences but you won't even notice that in first watch. The end-tracks are awesome (very very awesome) though, and the lines 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star..." are creepy...

 Story : DONT WATCH THIS MOVIE for STORY! It simply sucks. Nothing original - Dead planet ,host parasitic
alien form,comes to ship, start killing - as simple as that without any suspence in movie. A spoiler (like you care?): everyone dies and you wont even feel bad about it. I mean you will never feel emotionally attached to characters. There's no background of the
characters, too little information about why they are doing whatever they are doing  maybe cause the movie was too short (Just 1 hour 14 minutes).

  Verdict : Just watch it for timepass, don't expect too much, somebody said on internet that if you liked the 'DeadSpace' game you will like it too. Maybe thats true!

Rating - 6.5/10.

P.S. : do not watch it in HD like I did. Its just not worth it.


4 Messages:

Pallab said...

The Deadspace game sure as hell rocks. Too bad the same can't be said about its namesake movie.
Btw, based on your tweets I had thought that you were enjoying the movie

CDK said...

it actually aint a standalone movie...its more like a prequel to the game story ... something they couldnt fit in the game...hopefully it isnt an indication of the games quality...i hear its quite good

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T said...

game is nice but nothing sorta special, reminds me of The Thing movie...especially the necromorph design.