Good atmosphere in this science-fiction movie. The opening scene, a spaceship docking to a spacestation in orbit around the planet that gave this movie its title Dante 01, is beautiful.
The end was a bit vague, but the storyline was okay. Hopefully there is more SF like this next AFFF/Imagine.
Rating : 8
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If 2001 had a rejected bastard daughter, Dante 01 could have been her name.
Links: AFFF / imdb
Take a space station, make up some psychedelic sequences, add religious and scientific hues to the mix, stir, wait for 5 minutes, and hope that the audience doesn't start to ask questions. Even though the link with Dante's Divine Comedy suggests a well thought through plot, Dante 01 turns out to be a gorgeous looking standard space thriller. It's best to see and experience it as an allegory just like Dante's original work. If not, then the suspension of disbelief will be thrown out of the window in no time, because for instance who in their right mind would have a massive cross shaped space ship in orbit of a star with only 2 doctors, 3 guards and 7 mental patients...?
The film does deserve compliments for having the best character names I've seen in a while, the use of some special camera rigs enabling cool shots and some freaking trippy scenes that will be worth repeated viewing while intoxicated ;-)
Rating: 6
Links: AFFF / imdb
Take a space station, make up some psychedelic sequences, add religious and scientific hues to the mix, stir, wait for 5 minutes, and hope that the audience doesn't start to ask questions. Even though the link with Dante's Divine Comedy suggests a well thought through plot, Dante 01 turns out to be a gorgeous looking standard space thriller. It's best to see and experience it as an allegory just like Dante's original work. If not, then the suspension of disbelief will be thrown out of the window in no time, because for instance who in their right mind would have a massive cross shaped space ship in orbit of a star with only 2 doctors, 3 guards and 7 mental patients...?
The film does deserve compliments for having the best character names I've seen in a while, the use of some special camera rigs enabling cool shots and some freaking trippy scenes that will be worth repeated viewing while intoxicated ;-)
Rating: 6
description: Prisoners (maniacs), saviour, nanotechnology, mad brains, gates of hell, space, spaceship, planet
Geoffrey: (rating 8)
This movie I like very much and somehow looked to me like it could be a 2001: A space Oddysee prequal, specially the end of the movie. So there is space and a spaceship. A new prisoner is brought to a spacestation, where they experiment with prisoners to 'cure' them of their violent desease (yes, it could be a sequal to A Clockwork Orange too). The new guy is quite weird and does not talk very much. He seems to be able to heal others (perhaps inspired by The Matrix?).
I like this French movie for the story, the acting and the visual effects. The end of the movie is a little bit overdone but overal a very nice SF/(thriller) to watch.
Geoffrey: (rating 8)
This movie I like very much and somehow looked to me like it could be a 2001: A space Oddysee prequal, specially the end of the movie. So there is space and a spaceship. A new prisoner is brought to a spacestation, where they experiment with prisoners to 'cure' them of their violent desease (yes, it could be a sequal to A Clockwork Orange too). The new guy is quite weird and does not talk very much. He seems to be able to heal others (perhaps inspired by The Matrix?).
I like this French movie for the story, the acting and the visual effects. The end of the movie is a little bit overdone but overal a very nice SF/(thriller) to watch.
"stranger pulls evil out of the greatest sinners in high-tech prison-aka-mental-hospital satellite"
Links: AFFF / imdb
With an opening line like "it teaches you not that dragons exist, but how to beat them", eyebrows went up. They better back that up, somehow. Stranger arrives. High-tech gizmos. Evil overseers, bickering among themselves. Big Brother (even in the future, security cams are black-and-white and suffer from low framerate). Stranger keeps eating fluorescent translucent seafood thingies right out of the bodies of his fellow inmates, changing them into benign beings at the same time. His final trick is the same, though with a whole planet instead of one murderous human being.
What follows is a film which repeats several shots and scenes without much development. A story or film doesn't have to make sense all of the time, but suggestions and hints were scattered hither and thither without any backup. The first three circles of Dante's "Inferno" were mentioned. Saint George. The Gates of Hell. They all failed to deliver the goods. The film provided amusing ingredients, but no lasting one.
Rating: 6