The Last Scout

source: The Last Scout

As there isn't ever much sci fi this is well worth a watch. Great popcorn flick

Wow, just all round poor attempt at storing telling. So many plot holes, not even worth watching just to fill in time. Give this a big miss.

Truly awful. I just kept watching in disbelief just to see how bad it really was. Essentially a really low budget rip of sunshine, with some ships nicked from prometheus. But wthout any emotion, story. suspense, intrege, wonder, excitement or anything at all to justify the ninety minutes of life that you will never get back... from me its gets a zero.

This is just awful. They clearly had a budget of $15 for special effects. Bad acting, bad writing.

Oh my, if the acting was any more cardboard they could have done this with puppets and frankly it probably would have been better! This is so boring that a fast forward button is an absolute necessity. The special effects are so bad that taking your glasses off (if you have the benefit of them) can dramatically improve the watchability! The sets are so 'high school' video project that I suspect that is exactly who made them. The script writer should have been gagged and silenced although I suspect that the original story would have been good in print? At times the conversations are cringeworthy, so bad that a volume control should be hand at all times. In short, you WILL NOT get the time back that you waste on this but, you will probably appreciate a few other bad movies a lot more based on your experience. Yeuch. Just so bad it is really yeuch.

The special effects are ok (ok.. not good) for a low budget movie, but the plot and the screen play is unacceptable. The plot is simply pointless. Definitively the worst sci-fi movie I have ever watched.

Movies like this one which are essentially stageplays won't please the crowd looking for spectacular CGI and action sequences. I liked it because the story was mostly logical and credible. CGI was adequate and cutaways to exterior ship views were done appropriately. Some of the acting isn't going to win any Oscars, but it's generally adequate. Most of us are blissfully ignorant of, or have forgotten the nuclear Damoclean threat which has lain dormant for 73 years, but who knows, 2065 might be the year... The movie is not without faults: A serious flaw was how the probe was unable to detect an atmosphere full of methane and nitrogen. That could have been detected spectroscopically from orbit, no need even for a probe. Then of course they would not have bothered wasting their precious fuel landing there and picked the other world instead, which turned out to be like Eden. "Hull fractures" which appear at very inconvenient times seem difficult to understand. Also I didn't understand was why Gerry went berserk and became murderous, especially when one death was explained by the Chinese psycho lurking in the Pegasus. While getting stabbed in the torso by a 4 cm scalpel blade would not be pleasant, I doubt if would really stop a healthy opponent from pulling away and fleeing or fighting back. If you like sci-fi, you may well like this one.

As someone else said this movie is so much better than it's getting credit for. Yes it should have at least half an hour of the more boring parts cut out. The special effects at times are kind of poor. Most of the plot issues can be easily explained away, like why is everyone so angry at each other? Maybe there's a minor leak of something toxic making everyone agro or maybe everyone is just really rattled by all of humanity being nuked. Parts of that should definitely be cut, in fact some enterprising video editors could fix the movie in a snap. What's the opposite of a director's cut? But the movie did give me the lost-in-space creepies even if only a fraction as much as Pandorum did. I think a lot of people who hated it didn't like how dark it was and how ridiculously combative everyone was on it. Put in a news clip at the very beginning explaining away how long range space travel makes a tiny percentage of people very crazy. With a few bandaids and half an hour cut this could go from a good movie to a great one. But the hiccups didn't bother me much at all and almost every plot point seemed imminently plausible. The movie is just too damned long and slow at a few points, someone get in there and fix it for us. If you like dark space horror you might like this movie a lot like I do.

This was one bizarrely confusing movie. What a mess! I could forgive the sets and the cheap CG. But when they don't even have a decent plan for what the movie is supposed to be ... man it was painful. I could manage to figure out what the basic story line was but I have no idea WHY half the drama on board happened. Why were they freaking killing each other? Any good movie starts in the script. If the script is good it can get by with mediocre special effects, unimaginative sets and unpolished acting. Unfortunately this movie had a confusing, muddled script. For large parts I just couldn't figure out what went on. I like Sci Fi so I will up vote it from 3 (which it really deserves) to 4 for at least TRYING to make a Sci Fi movie.