Articles in Sci-Fi Movie Reviews

Solaris (2002) Movie Review

I’ve never been accused of going out of my way to see the year’s (insert present year here) “most thought-provoking movie”. It’s commonly known that I don’t always need a film to challenge me emotionally or question the way I see things in order to find it satisfying. (”The Two Towers” and “Blade 2″ certainly [...]

February 1st, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Minority Report (2002) Movie Review

“Minority Report” takes place in the near future (50 years or so), and stars Tom Cruise as Anderton, the head of a Washington D.C. police bureau in charged of stopping murders before they take place. The bureau of Precrime is a prototype, and D.C. has been using the system for the last 6 years, essentially [...]

January 8th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Men in Black 2 (2002) Movie Review

“Men in Black 2″ was a bona fide hit even before it hit theaters. Actually, it was a hit even before the studio announced they would be making a sequel to the original. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that “MIB 2″ is more of the same. Which is to say if you liked [...]

December 14th, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

The 6th Day (2000) Movie Review

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “The Sixth Day” is really a Comedy, and anyone who doesn’t want to be bored to death by its oh so routine action sequences should treat the film as such. The film deals with the subject of human cloning, but if you thought this was a serious dissertation on said subject, you’re hopelessly [...]

December 7th, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

The Truman Show (1998) Movie Review

Peter Weir’s “The Truman Show” was the first movie that former rubberface comedian Jim Carrey served notice to the world that he was more than his talking posterior. Besides satirizing the then-fledging concept of reality TV taken to its most ludicrous degree, “The Truman Show” combines comedy with human drama and a healthy dose of [...]

November 30th, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Alien (1979) Movie Review

The tagline for Ridley Scott’s 1979 “Alien” is, “In space no one can hear you scream,” and is it ever appropriate. “Alien” is a claustrophobic film that makes you feel just as isolated, desperate, and lonely as its characters. The look, the feel, and the sensation of being in space seems real, mostly thanks to [...]

November 24th, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Alien 3 (1992) Movie Review

David Fincher’s “Alien 3″ made one crucial mistake even before the first shot was put to celluloid. In the screenwriting phase, the writers killed off Hicks, Newt, and Bishop without so much as an apology. For anyone who has gasped and jumped and had their heart crash against his or her chest throughout the harrowing [...]

November 24th, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Aliens (1986) Movie Review

James Cameron’s “Aliens” is, in my humble opinion, the definitive Humans vs. Aliens movie. As far as I’m concern, every film that has come after “Aliens” are inferior clones. Even the animated “Final Fantasy”, for all of its cinematic breakthroughs, was nothing more than a rich man’s “Aliens.” It’s no surprise then that “Aliens” is [...]

November 22nd, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Wing Commander (1999) Movie Review

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that “Wing Commander” is a bad movie; it’s just not as good as it could have been. The script is uninteresting, which is saying a lot since the destruction of Earth by enemy forces is at stake. Seeing as how “Wing Commander” is based on a string [...]

November 3rd, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Scorcher (2002) Movie Review

It probably goes without saying that “Scorcher”, a direct-to-video production, is a terrible movie. Besides that unavoidable conclusion, the movie features one of the most irritating Professional Jerks of all time. A Professional Jerk is a character within a movie (usually action movies) that serves no purpose other than to antagonize our hero as he [...]

September 21st, 2002 | Nix | 1 comment | Read More

Starship Troopers (1997) Movie Review

The most interesting thing about a Paul Verhoeven film is that, for the most part, they’re satire about human society dressed up as mindless entertainment. Take the bloodbath that was “Robocop,” about media saturation in the face of over-the-top violence; or “Starship Troopers,” about a fascist utopian society dressed up as sci-fi about humans fighting [...]

September 7th, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Total Recall (1990) Movie Review

“Total Recall” is a 1990 futuristic actioner about Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger), an Everyman construction worker on Earth who begins to think he’s a super secret agent for a government agency on the (recently colonized) planet of Mars. Quaid’s problems arise when his obsession with Mars takes him to a place that specializes in “memory [...]