The characters are stock and the events are predictable. Unfortunately it's all pretty much what you'd expect from bringing a computer game to the movies.
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01/01/00
Wing Commander (1999)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:3
Rotten:32
Average Rating:2.8/10
Consensus: The low budget may explain Wing Commander's cheesy special effects, but can't excuse the lame dialogue or the movie's obsessive reliance on sci-fi cliches.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: A sci-fi actioner in which the inhabitants of a mid-27th century world come under attack by the evil Kilrathi Empire. The crew of the TCS Tiger Claw must distract the Kilrathi while reinforcements... [More]
Starring: Freddie Prinze, Saffron Burrows, Matthew Lillard, Tcheky Karyo
Director: Chris Roberts
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Reviews for Wing Commander
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11/04/02
Against all odds it succeeds.
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03/24/02
As an action film, Wing Commander lacks any original ideas of its own.
06/05/02
These actors, alas, are at the service of a submoronic script and special effects that look like a video game writ large.
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01/01/00
I would recommend avoiding this cosmic accident even in the video bargain bins.
01/01/00
I liked the unpretentiousness of it all.
02/14/01
No movie spawned from a video or computer game has answered the question of why someone would pay to see something on the big screen that could be played interactively on a video game system or computer.
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03/31/05
Staring at a blank screen would be at least fifty times more entertaining and visually stimulating than all of Wing Commander combined.
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07/27/02
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05/22/03
A completely vapid, special-effects reel that would make a pretty nice screensaver for a computer, but as far as a 90-minute movie, it can lean somewhat towards the tedious.
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02/08/03
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