![]() That was uncalled for and hyperbolic.Ī high school film club’s film does not deserve to be compared to this movie’s utter abandonment of anything approaching filmmaking other than literally accomplishing the definitional task of recording moving pictures. It also is only nominally a movie, since it has the approximate production values, writing quality, and acting skill of a high school film club production. The movie is nominally about first contact with alien life, which we then proceed to blow up. That was approximately $129 too much, and I will be issuing an invoice to Amazon that I expect to be credited to my account. Please follow CDC, health department and venue guidelines if attending indoor screenings.Cosmic Sin cost me $5.99 to watch on Amazon Prime. The film is now available in select theaters and via VOD. This movie is abysmal and not in a fun, watchable way. Worse, it made me feel guilty for ignoring Willis for so long and letting him break down so badly. Sometimes, low-budget sci-fi can be charming (use the other film I review this week as a great example of that), but for some reason watching this movie made me feel bad. I lost complete track of what was going on in Cosmic Sin at around he halfway mark, and I couldn’t muster the energy to try and get caught up or decipher who was who, what weapon was doing what to where, or how anything on this crazy future worked. Of course, it would be lunacy to expect anything great to come from this combination of acting and budgetary elements, but I was holding out for something competent and sensical. Then you notice that Frank Grillo gets billing over Bruce Willis, even though Willis carries the film (as much as a man in a walking coma can), while Grillo vanishes for two-thirds of the movie, only to show up right when the screenplay requires him to save the day. Then you start to notice how dark everything is and how the darkness is used to hide the better-than-you’d-expect special effects that are still pretty weak. But it’s the lack of aliens in a movie supposedly about an alien armada about to attack Earth that strikes you first. The fancy and clunky space suits look surprisingly similar to the quantum time travel suits from Avengers: Endgame, which doesn’t mean they don’t look cool they just look familiar too. Clearly made on a budget, the film feels cheap and somehow both overwritten and underwritten. If most of these actors’ names aren’t ringing a bell, join the club.Ĭosmic Sin doesn’t take long to turn itself from a sci-fi action adventure story into a movie with a whole lot of talking about interstellar warring. Once they arrive on the planet, they find a group of survivors fighting against the swarm of largely unseen aliens, led by Sol Cantos (played by wrestler C.J. Also along for the journey is Ford’s ex-wife and scientist Dr. They include Ryle’s trigger-happy son Braxton (Brandon Thomas Lee), Q-bomb expert Juda Saule (Eva De Dominici), and old-school fighter Marcus Black (Costas Mandylor). James Ford (Willis) is brought out of retirement, bringing his former second-in-command and current drinking buddy Dash (Corey Large) along for the ride, along with a few other soldiers. The military force in charge of protecting the earth, called The Alliance, puts together a team under the command of General Eron Ryle (Frank Grillo) to use a quantum wormhole to jump across space in a matter of seconds and fight the aliens before they do the same and attack Earth. ![]() Set in the year 2524, the film exists in a time when humans have been colonizing other planets for about 400 years, though it isn’t until now that a small group of colonists makes first contact with an alien species that parasitically takes over their bodies and makes them a destructive weapon in the species’ efforts to invade Earth and kill or take over the population. Image courtesy of the filmįrom director/co-writer Edward Drake ( Broil), Cosmic Sin starts out promisingly enough. ![]() In this new film, he seems disinterested and lethargic despite being strapped into a souped-up space suit, often carrying massive weaponry of some sort and playing a retired military general who was forced out years earlier for using something called a Q-bomb that wiped out the population of a planet (or part of it). Willis has long been accused of seeming sleepy, but I think that’s just his laid-back persona that has long made him a chill counterpart to peers like Schwarzenegger and Stallone. So sitting down to check out his latest, Cosmic Sin, was a bit of an eye-opening shocker. Without deliberately meaning to, I seem to have avoided most everything he’s done since 2012, when he hit the trifecta of Looper, Moonrise Kingdom, and The Expendables 2. I don’t pretend to understand the economics that have led Bruce Willis to make such a string of dreadful, forgettable movies in the latter part of his career.
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