Star Quest: The Odyssey (2009)

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Lack of good storyline.

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

This movie had the production values of a 1970s Doctor Who episode. The acting and special effects are what you would expect of a low budget film, but really, couldn't they have tried a bit harder?The narration at the beginning gave some background that's necessary to understand the story but uses too much stock footage of real-life space missions and ships. Couldn't they have just started us off in the near future and described what happened next? Without giving too much away the story sort of ends at the beginning of a crisis. This isn't a TV series where a cliffhanger makes us want to tune in next week to see what happens. The plot was like a Star Trek episode in the middle of a Star Trek episode, and ending with the aforementioned Star Trek episode. Given the vast storytelling range covered by Star Trek this is somewhat excusable I guess. Overall, this movie doesn't have much to recommend it unless you want to know how NOT to do things in your own low-budget production.

The first time I put this on three of us started watching it and fell asleep. The second and third attempts resulted in the same fashion although we tried to pickup where we left off. Finally two of us were determined to finish the movie from beginning to end. We drank some caffeine and started watching it from the beginning. Just as we suspected it was very hard to keep concentrating on the video and stay awake.The plot is random events that appear to have no connection because they are unrelated. They were given one mission and I am not quite sure of the mission parameters. They must have been so secret that the writer kept it from the audience. The obvious size of the starship Odyssey should have had hundreds of crewmen aboard but we see a total of seven including the saboteur. The saboteur is so skillful in keeping his identity a secret, even when he shouts, "Long live the Empire!" on the bridge.The narrator states that faster than light travel is inexpensive in the future. That is pretty obvious when you see that the ship isn't constructed very well, since a single washer was able to almost cripple the ship.Much of this film's special effects are basic still shots panned or zoomed. At one point as the "Sanctuary AI" rambles on and on we are subjected to a slide show of still pictures with the AI tower pasted on them. The hand to hand fight scenes are much worse than backyard wrestling. Once a gun is introduced, they keep them in an unsecured open locker, the saboteur fails to kill anyone with it. The props such as the "Crone Detectors" were nothing more than a pair of welder goggles.A few flashbacks are inserted into the film but have no dialog or purpose. They resemble basic home movies of the Captain and his girl friend but we have no idea when or where they were at the time of the memory. The flashbacks serve no purpose other than time filler.The ending is left open, there is no conclusion, but there was no storyline to begin with. By the end of this film you are left with a sense that you could care less if these characters lived or died. In fact, we hope they died a horrible death.

I rented this from Red Box. When I pulled the disc out of the case, I noticed the disc was super scratched on one side towards the edge. I wondered how it could get like that and still be in service.Then I put the disc and and saw. No one could possibly get far enough into the movie to hit the bad spot on the DVD.The movie opens with a 3 minute history lesson that seems like 3 hours. This is followed by a fight scene between 2 guys in an alley that goes on too long. Followed by an endless succession of people walking through weak sets talking about nothing vital.Horrible.

I thought I had seen some bad movies before, but this one makes the worst of them look like academy award material. I feel like I got robbed of a dollar by Redbox. OK, it's a B movie but give me a break. I can understand cheap sets and costumes, but the crew looked like they were wearing ill fitting pajamas from an outlet mall that only sells seconds. It looked like there was a large magnifying glass as part of the back of the captain's chair which would have made sitting a real blast. The part Klingon, part human cyborg wore walking casts for boots. The connections from the ship to the cyborg for regeneration were a big mess of loose telephone cable wires. You are kidding me right? One review said this was a family film. The only way I would classify this as a family film is if they meant it was made by a family of children as the production team. It appears to have been: 1. written by a 10 year old; 2. directed by a 9 year old; 3. produced by an 8 year old; 4. filmed by a 7 year old; 5. edited by a 6 year old; and 6. financed by a 5 year old's allowance. I nearly wet my pants at the end when when the helmsmen said "I didn't think it could get any worse." He should have said that line at the beginning and saved time I will never get back in my life.I did, however, laugh hysterically as my sister read all 4 pages of the reviews, one of which was submitted by someone claiming to be a member of the 9 person cast of actors who should be barred permanently from the acting profession. To call what they did acting would be an affront to the entire film and television industry.If I really wanted to torture my students it would be a toss up between showing this, or making them listen to Mrs. Miller sings the Beetles. Naaaaaaah this wins hands down.