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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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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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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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Scientific fact: the universe is a big vacuum. Scientific corollary: Wing Commander sucks.
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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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I would recommend avoiding this cosmic accident even in the video bargain bins.
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Against all odds it succeeds.
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My, what a field day Mike Nelson and his robot pals would have had with this prime piece of sci-fi schlock.
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