Crimson Force (2005)

I have disliked the SyFy original movies more than I have liked them, though there were a few I was surprised by. Crimson Force is not their worst or quite bad enough one of their bottom-of-the-barrel movies, but it is still really bad. The special effects even for SyFy are really cartoony, while the rest of the production values including the most fake-looking and inauthentic ship interior ever and rather choppy editing don't fare much better. The script is awful, very hackneyed and lacking any sort of point, while the story is highly derivative(of Stargate mainly), wanders about all over the place and never seems to find a consistent tone and the characters are clichéd and annoying. Unlike the bottom-of-the-barrel SyFy movies, Crimson Farce(excuse me, Crimson Force) does have a redeeming quality, which is the performance of David Chokachi. He's not too camp and he didn't seem to take things too seriously. Which is more than I can say for Thomas C.Howell, whose performance, a very uneasy mix of campiness and phoning in and both at extreme levels at times, is the complete opposite. All in all, a terrible movie, I've seen worse but that is little consolation. 1/10 Bethany Cox

This really is Science Fiction by numbers - it feels like it was written by someone who has read books on how to write SF, but never actually seen any.The "World Government vs The Corporations" backstory is laughably juvenile it its monochrome simplicity and - considering this was written in 2005 - the "future history" it tries to establish is woefully naive and dated. It's made clear at the start that this is the first manned mission to Mars. Yet the crew behave throughout as if crash-landing in Cydonia, discovering an ancient civilization, and meeting alien life (and having sex with it), constitutes no more than a rather busy day at the office.All that said, it's engagingly played by all involved, the moral ambiguities are quite interesting, and everything holds together just about well enough to remain watchable. A thoroughly missable movie, but a generally inoffensive one.

This movie is dodgy, plain and simple. In some sequence you can easily tell that the characters are animated in-particularly the rock climbing shots. It wasn't even good animation. In another shot, the camera is all over the place. The camera man must has being shaking like mad. This is not acceptable in a modern day sci-fi flick but yet this movie was allowed to do it. Apart from that, the storyline is weak also. It all seemed like an episode of Stargate. The alien intrusion on Earths History, the staf like weapons and the dodgy looking crests here and their just gave the film a look of stargate rip-off which is just not on. Fair enough, originality is hard to get these days as almost all ideas have been done at some stage but to copy big elements so glaringly is the sign that the producers were half asleep when they were doing this picture. The acting was OK however but again not the best. Overall this film is a poor sci-fi flick so check out other sci-fi movies if you want to be entertained.

I watched Baywatch to stare at David Chokachi. And I watched Crimson Force for the same reason. I don't agree with certain IMDb reviewers that most of the Sci-Fi channel original programming is bad, I enjoy some of it. And then some of it is just so bad, it's good. Unfortunately, Crimson Force isn't even it that category. It's good if you are into staring at Chokachi! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!If the Sci-fi Channel would be smart enough to pick up Witchblade repeats, then I could stare at Chokachi AND watch something highly intelligent AND entertaining!