Dead Space: Aftermath (2011)

Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Charming and brutal

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Let's get this right of the bat - the CGI animation is awful in this. It looks bad, it moves bad, it syncs to the dialogue bad. And the dialogue really isn't great either, there's some really clunky exposition early on, and some of the back and forths just really don't make sense. The occasional attempts at humor fall flat, and it feels very much like it's written by video game writers, with a lot of the dialogue sounding fine if this was the occasional in between battle banter, but back to back to back it just feels extra clunky.The pros are occasionally impressive. The 2D animation flashbacks are really well done stylistically, and the movement is pretty good. The dialogue versions of PTSD really don't work at all, with the character who lost his daughter really not sounding that sad or crazy, just pretty flat, but the visual representations of his hallucinations are impressive. But every time the movie started to impress me, it switched back to the 3D style that looks worse than student projects I've seen. I'm not sure if the dialogue is really worse during these scenes than the flashbacks or if I'm just so turned away by what I'm seeing that it feels worse, but I can tell you several of the worst clichés occur during these CGI scenes. The worst part is that the 3D scenes add *nothing*. Adding about 5 minutes of dialogue to the flashbacks and making them more chronological would've produced something cohesive and probably in the 7/10 range. As is, though, most of the attempts to create anything "scary" or impactful are done in awful CGI, which just takes so much away from the viewing experience that I did not have any sort of a pleasant time.

This wasn't a very good anthology movie in my opinion.While "Dead Space: Aftermath" had a better plot than "Dead Space: Downfall" (Which only consisted into showing a bunch of characters killing and being killed by monstrous aliens) the poor animation and the thin characterization doesn't allow this to be a truly enjoyable film.The CGI from this movie was very ugly and unappealing. It almost like something done in the early nineties, having minimal details, characters devoid of emotion on their faces, which are only able to make robotic and unnatural movements.On the other side, the flashbacks included on "Dead Space: Aftermath" are done in a anime design, which isn't much better either, but it almost look good in comparison with hideous computer animation used in the parts of the movie which take place in the present.None of the stories were particularly good nor interesting, and all of them were a bit predictable and dull.While the premise of showing the same events from different perspectives was certainly interesting and with lots of potential, the overall result still lefts too much to be desired.However, I do think that this was an improvement in comparison with the uninspired "Dead Space:Downfall". Even when this wasn't a very successful experiment, at least it's a step in the right direction.

DEAD SPACE: AFTERMATH was a rather big disappointment compared to DEAD SPACE: DOWNFALL, Even though DOWNFALL was no breakthrough epic in animation, it was still pretty good, it was more of a good versus evil type story and it managed to build tension through the use of great sound effects and had characters that you did grow to care about.In AFTERMATH you have a plot told in four different perspectives from four central characters, an approach to storytelling I'm not to particularly fond of because here the central characters are each interrogated and each time the action heats up we go back to the interrogation part where they bring in another character to be interrogated before we can get back to the main plot and every time this happens you'll find yourself going "Get on with it already." I admit I've only played the first DEAD SPACE so far but other reviewers have already said that the people who made this film probably didn't play the game, I'm inclined to agree with them.

I haven't played any of the games or watched any of the other movies. In fact, I didn't even know that there were other movies until I finished watching this waste of a film and logged onto IMDb to tell everyone to not waste a minute of their life on this! As if the story wasn't contrived enough, the animation style varies wildly throughout the movie. A couple of the sequences look OK but most of them are pretty poor. Plastic, Poser animations for the characters and cookie cutter backgrounds. I don't understand how things like this get made. You would think that at some point in the production, someone who had seen a decent animation would have told these folks to stop wasting their time!