Video game: Plan 66 from Outer Space

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2005)

I guess I have to agree with everybody; lots of great visuals, no heart or soul. Also... no fun. If you like war movies, you might enjoy watching this, though. I get a kick out of the spacecraft that look and sound like idealized WWII fighters, but that's just me. Which reminds me, when will they make up their mind whether there is air in outer space or not? If you can hear the battle going on outside the ship, you don't have to worry about being sucked out the broken window. Of course, when the window did get broken, the getting sucked out part suddenly stopped like ten seconds later and everything was fine again. ?? I had to laugh when Padme tells Anakin he's been under a lot of stress lately. I was waiting for her to offer him a Valium. And most unfortunately, central to the movie and the entire Star Wars saga, Anakin's turn to the dark side; sheesh. In fairness, that's a real hard transition to make; it's not easy to have a likable character show his transition to a villain, but still seem like the same character. The combination of Hayden, the dialog, and the script didn't come near to doing it. Not enough buildup, not enough foreshadowing and inner torment, not enough external motivation. It wasn't a great tragedy, just a plot gimmick, and part of a whole tissue of plot holes that seemed to be tacked on to make the story mesh with Episode IV. Gotta kill off Padme? OK, let's just have her "lose the will to live". I expect Tom DeLay and Bush to pass a Congressional bill to save her life. Here are in the future, and the poor kid doesn't even get any resuscitation. Not even a doctor to thump her on the chest and scream "Don't you die on me!" like every guest actor on a TV hospital show gets. But Anakin threw everything over because he wanted to save her! Well, maybe he changed his mind, who knows. We'll have him yell 'Nooooooooooooooooooooo' to show he's upset, that oughta do it. This movie would have been a real hot item back when people were expanding their consciousnesses and reducing their logical skills before heading out to the movies. I did kind of like General Grievous, though, and the scenes with him were... fun! Kind of like Star wars used to be. I'll give the movie another point just for sentimental reasons.