Name  Rating Wing Commander 3/10

    The Wing Commander movie is the next installment of a long tradition of attempting to translate a video game into a movie... Such fine films as Mario Brothers, or Street Fighter; who could forget them? Yes, Wing Commander does them proud by carrying on the tradition of making some hideously deformed version of a game, which didn't really have much in the way of a story to begin with, and removing the only thing that actually makes them even slightly enjoyable, the interactivity. The plot of this movie is pretty straight forward, bad aliens, no like Earth, plan to destroy Earth, go to destroy Earth, good humans, no like bad aliens, outsmart bad dumb aliens, kill all aliens, boy gets girl.

    Hmmm, it's hard to pick just what I didn't like about this movie... Was it the horrible casting? Or perhaps the amazingly bad animatronic aliens (the Kilrathy)? Maybe the gratuitous use of the evil Stop-motion camera technique? It's soo difficult to choose! I didn't particularly have high expectations of this movie, although I must say that I have enjoyed playing the game (especially V), and I like the actor that played Maniac in this (also was in Scream and Hackers). The movie started out Ok, nothing really caught me, but nothing too bad, probably a solid 5, but then it happened. Enter the Pilgrims. For whatever reason, they introduce these pursecutated people (they call them a race, but they're really just other humans who left the Earth early on), who fought the empire in the past or something like that, for some vague reason, like they thought they were gods, or lost their morals, or some other nonsense reason. Ok, so you have these Pilgrims, and nobody likes them, but not really for any reason, and that's some sort of underlying theme throughout the movie - it leaves you thinking why the hell they even included them in the first place. Next, you meet some woman, probably around 22 or so, very beautiful, and of course, she's the Wing Leader of the group. Now, she is totally unbelievable in the role of some sort of commanding officer, and not because she's a woman or any crap like that, but because she doesn't ACT like one! I mean, they try to present her as being soo tough, but in the end, she isn't even handling her own soldier properly, and she falls into the arms of the hero, to be whisked away to the infirmary. Totally lame. Now the hero, oh god, I don't even want to go into it. I've written too much already for this feeble attempt at a movie. I will finish this with one more comment; the rendered graphics were good, not great, but very solid - EXCEPT for the rendering of the Kilrathy! My god! Who did the Kilrathy?!?! The aliens in the video game were FAR more realistic! Can you believe it?!? One of my friends I went with mentioned at the beginning that there was only 3 minutes or so of Kilrathy in the movie - I thought it strange before actually seeing them, and then I thought it was about 3 minutes too many! I've seen more realistic creatures on the Muppets, or even Fraggle Rock! Bottom line? It sucked, don't go, and don't buy the next version of the game, so that they don't get confused and somehow think the movie helped them sell more copies.