Millennium Crisis (2007) User Reviews

Avoid it !

[aletannu · 1/10 · 18 February 2008]

If I take 5 of my friends and a cam, I'm more than sure we'll make a better movie.

Trust me, there's nothing to see in this movie... except a pair of breasts for about two minutes, for those who are interested in this kind of stuff :)))

There's nothing to worth a watch; bad camera work, bad acting, bad directing, absolutely no effects and a wretched scenery (a few red/green lights, a few blankets and bed sheets and some time to time a couple of SF pictures to show the location :))) Pathetic !

Really Painful ! Avoid it !

no budget home made rubbish

[inkslug · 1/10 · 18 February 2008]

I can only assume this is an independent 'no budget' film produced as some sort of student project. It is appalling and I only lasted 10 minutes with it. How they managed to get any of the actors to do this is beyond me.

The look of this film is like some cut video sequences from PC games of the early nineties. I wouldn't be surprised if this was made in 1999 (before the millennium) and has been released now with some cut and paste background CGI stolen from elsewhere.

Don't believe the average star rating, I suspect it's artificially high from people involved in the project rating it highly.

what a waste of time.

Intergalactic space vampire voodoo-jumbo

[lcxor · 2/10 · 16 February 2008]

There is only one good thing I can say about this very piece of erm... cinematography. Very good looking Clare Stevenson in a funny red wig. Everything else is pure bull-dung, including Xena's wannabe-warrior friend, Joxer the Mighty. Ops, I mean Ted Raimi.

So, what do we have here? Wooden acting, boring dialogs, as-simple-as-could-be plot, God-slay-me-on-place CGI, short and static shots and occasionally some magnificent FXes like hand-shaking the camera during the 'action' moments. Which are boring, but you probably already guessed it.

Seen "Dracula 3000"? This one is slightly better, not only for not having Coolio in the cast. But still, it's not even 3% cheesy, cult or camp, so don't bother if you are a bad-movie fan. No content, poor plot, not a single juicy dialog. Oh, brief moment of nudity ;) But still, not worth 90 minutes of yer life.

Tedious Home Brewed SciFi

[NardacBlefscu · 26 May 2008]

While demonstrating skill in cinematography and art direction, this micro-budget sci-fi indie is appallingly constructed and suffers from lifeless direction and even worse editing. Much like the various fan films for STAR WARS and THE MATRIX, most of the effort has been spent on video game cut-scene CGI (which to be honest isn't the worst you'll ever see)and pretty costumes, but not a finger lifted to devise compelling characters or coherent storyline. I've got a cast iron stomach when it comes to watching terrible movies, but I just had to bail out after the 45m mark. I know people will scream "Hey, you should've given it a chance!" or "Look! It's a zero budget indie built with honest sincere sweat and the finest of intentions", but to that I cry "bull-plop." A film should be judged for what it is not on some sliding scale or crouched in polite language to shield the egos of thin skinned wannabe filmmakers. This film is terrible and the only joy I can take from it's release is that at least it wasn't a Polonia Brother(s) film.

Bizarre and dreamlike mess

[andreas-84718 · 5/10 · 21 December 2016]

Incredibly weird film. Obviously made for no money at all, with lots of gratuitous nudity, horrendous CGI, dirt cheap looking practical effects and a repeating soundtrack. The cast, dressed in what can only be described as mom's closet and dad's garage, valiantly work their way through a dreamlike and bizarre script, and somehow all of this.. kind of works? I could never recommend this film generally, but on the spectrum of bad filmmaking it's a fascinating watch that winds up more charming and earnest than it has any real right to. It appears to be a fluke given the creator's record otherwise, but I'm glad it exists. An asylum level production with originality and, incredibly, actual vision.

Surprisingly well made celebration of olden SF values. for CGI haters.

[The_Melancholic_Alcoholic · 8/10 · 8 June 2009]

I must deduct a point or two, because the storyline is very complicated, and not in a good way. This might also have to with the fact that the audio is not always clearly audible. And the only thing I knew about this movie was the genre and the title, not even the tag-line.

But otherwise ... This is a superior made movie, especially if you consider the limited budget. What makes this one special, is that by using less CGI, only at moments when they really have to, they manage to make it look more real than the current big studio-crap out there. For example, NBC's web-series IQ-145 and Gemini Division with big stars like Thomas Dekker and Rosario Dawson, are completely acted in front of a blue screen, and while their CGI doesn't look bad, it gives a really cartoonish taste to their webisodes.

Millennium Crisis, on the other hand, embraces their special effects, which might be a bit outdated, but that gives it its charm.

What's also quite refreshing is that they tried to make aliens as alien as possible, with a decidedly alien-sounding hiss-and-click language, breather masks, and they didn't follow the unholy Battlestar Galactica trend.

Because these days the biggest sinner against Sci-Fi rules is the new Battlestar Galactica, of course! The rule is: When using aliens and alien cultures and customs, the CHALLENGE is to make them as unhuman-like as possible of course. Make the non-Earth beings as Earth-like as possible, especially in their motivations.

It's not a challenge AT ALL to make people or beings in scifi look and act like badly disguised present day Texans, Chinese or Pennsylvanians! That's just insulting the viewers intelligence.

The new Battlestar Galactica makers claim that they wanted to focus "on the drama" as the reason for all this, so they made the cinematography look like the thirties, and the new series "Caprica", look like Canada in the nineties!

By huge contrast, this film really tries to be really alien in the art direction and cinematography at least. In the storyline, they fail a bit, a vampire angle is rather human, and what's more, they don't explain that it IS a vampire until the last quarter of the film. So, the story can be quite hard to follow. Nevertheless, all in all a good film, with adequate acting, strong female roles, which is what probably pissd off the other commenters, since the chances are that they're white males. There aren't any strong roles for them in this film.

As a fan and avid low budget movie watcher, I can say that in comparison with other low-budget sci-fis, like the Asylum ones, the BSG webisodes and the Webserials, this one surpasses them in quality by far.

Surprisingly good -- stick with it

[rlange-3 · 7/10 · 18 October 2009]

The movie was obviously made on a shoestring and starts out very slowly but the last 40% pulls the plot together very well. The disparate and impressionistic elements of the first part of the movie fall into place like pieces of a puzzle. This, combined with good acting overall, make it a decent 5 on the science fiction scale. I added in a couple of points because they did so much with so very little.

This is much more than some Dracula in Space movie. It is based far in the future, and paints a world, or worlds, very different than what we are used to in the here and now, and yet with many of the same elements of power struggle, betrayal, and falsehood of the perpetual human condition -- even among other species. The twist at the end with the androids was particularly clever.

And for the record I have nothing at all to do with this movie nor any member of the team that produced it. Totally independent review.

An old school SF pleasure!

[espigel2 · 7/10 · 8 May 2010]

If you liked the French SF comics published in the 70s in Heavy Metal (Metal Hurlant), then you'll totally get where this movie is coming from, and you'll love it. You'll get all homages, the wherefores of the characters and the world they live in, and you'll be glad someone made this movie. The big studios would never do it, though I imagine there are still a few writers and directors out there who wish they could.

If you don't have this pedigree, then you will probably not like this film very much, which is a shame, There is already so much in movies nowadays not to like, it's very sad for you that there is one more film you will end up adding to the list. I feel sorry for you!

Me? I enjoyed it from beginning to end, watched it twice so far… fond memories of Moebius, Starcrash, and 4E came rushing back, and all in all, I am grateful for that.