Curate Egg - Good in parts

Rating: 7/10 (9 May 2009)

The Good:
Casting - At worst OK, at best excellent.
Special Effects - A lot of great work is used simply as background, as it should be. There were a lot of nice touches - going from the loud emergency inside a craft to the silence of space.
Relationships between characters - This is where this film really does nail it.
The prologue - Very effecting, although I think Roddenberry would have hated it.
Direction I liked the way the camera was continually taken off at odd angles. Generally the camera was used very dynamically.
Historic Nods - lots are used without being too distracting.
The Bad:
The plot - It really doesn't work. The more you think about it the more holes you can punch in it.
Worth watching, but concentrate on the characterisation and park your brain at the door.
M