TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

fullheadofsteam Rating this T.V. production on visuals (set decoration, special effects, lighting, etc.), this flick would rate a 10. Where it falls apart as a total work, however, is casting (completely wrong lead actor, English-accent challenged and mismatched in age lead actress) and, sadly, story borrowed from sources other than Battlestar Galactica (for example, reinventing Terminator elements and themes). Some snappy dialogue in the beginning, which devolves into stereotypical soap opera claptrap. And you can't even imagine how terrible the big 'love' scene is...it is to barf. Lastly, it must be said that the dialogue frequency of the word 'frack', used instead of 'fuck', or 'fracking' instead of 'fucking', is so awful as to change every mood where the word is used into the most awful depths of chalkboard nail-screesching pain or, alternately, giddy hysteria.

Daniele Pighin BSG's success was based at least as much on good writing as it was on realistic CGI, good acting and photography. All these ingredients are missing here. The main weakness of the movie is its plot, which is basically nonsensical. Other reviews already pointed out in how many ways it is flawed, so I won't repeat it here. The usage of flares and camera shakes is exaggerated, at times irritating. The romantic storyline does not add anything to the movie, it is not central for the development of the plot and almost certainly does not contribute to the artistic value of the film. There is something of the spirit of BSG in this prequel, but it's kind of washed away. It feels like BSG might have felt after becoming an overstretched and bored production, which luckily for us it never became.

a666333 There are a lot of loose ends in the plot but that leaves those open to being developed later. That is part of what a plot needs to do. However, the problem here is not just a question of unanswered mysteries. The story that is intended to be contained within this "pilot" has a million holes especially regarding who and what are sent on such a supposedly important mission. There is such a huge disconnect with any realistic portrayal that one can't buy what they are selling. In fact, how they handle it are just excuses to show the kind of battle scenes and confrontations that they have in mind. No sane commanders would have acted that way. OK, if you can live with that, you will still be looking toward a series that will wallow in the the same old dark, gloomy sets, populated with the same maladjusted, borderline psychotic, substance abusing people, worn out cursing, corruption, traitorous factions lurking in the closets, etc. It would not be a thing of beauty. Throw in plot themes and background that come across as ugly dystopic social programming a la Hunger Games and its looks to be like a long swim in a cesspool. Why bother? The 2004 series broke down that way after a promising start and was sort-of rescued by some interesting ideas at the very end. I think the pool of interesting ideas is very dry now and only the cesspool is left. If you cannot agree with my criticisms above, i.e. you like that cesspool, you will still have to contend with the low standard in CGI shown in this pilot and a casting of the young Adama that gives little confidence of being able to handle the character growth that would be needed in a series. Furthermore, they would need to find some better writing as what we saw here was very tiresome and uninspired.

deydreamer IT SUCKED 1. Lens Flares, yeah we all love Andrew Kramer and the Knolls Light Factory but this is overboard. 2. The entire plot revolves around getting the Doctor Lady to the Cylon Relay station. A task that apparently a raptor can do in under an hour when it rescues husker. 3. They are ditched by the other pilot who apparently thinks he can fly home to see his kid even though he is in a Viper, not a raptor. Vipers don't have FTL drives so he is kinda fracked on that account. 4. They Fleet trusts the entire mission to a rookie pilot, a short timer and a known traitor. Ummm bullsh*t! The entire WAR is resting on this mission, why send the tiny ship there to deploy the mission when you have like 4 fracking battle star just playing dead that could go there and ensure it's a success! FRACK just send in that rap-tor at the end, apparently its got the secret back way into the base to ensure it's a success. 5. The love scene is worthless and should have been scrapped in order to progress the other parts of the story along. frack this reboot.