Please don't think I enjoy ripping movies apart because that could be further from the truth. This review is from a user who is usually encouraging with her ratings and reviews and makes effort in finding good in every movie or TV show even when it's bad. Even when taking into account that it's low budget and not to be taken seriously, Star Quest: The Odyssey fails truly miserably, there are not many movies that are wholly deserving of minus ratings but as harsh as it sounds this is one such movie.
Star Quest: The Odyssey looks dreadful visually, there are only a few sets which is not always a bad thing but it is a bad thing where they are so cheap that they wouldn't pass for sets let alone not resembling what they're supposed to be. There is some very choppy photography that may make epileptics wary and the editing was in serious need of a tightening up, that's even in the stock footage-like opening and that was the best the movie looked. And the special effects are some of the worst of any movie, so amateurish and fake in quality that they have to be seen to be believed. The music is incredibly out of place, it would work in a badly done porn movie but the monotonous drone that the music basically is does not fit here at all.
Star Quest: The Odyssey is horrendously written even for a low-budget movie. If there was ever any read-throughs or rewrites that really did not show here, the dialogue is so cheesy and very rarely makes sense, some conversations having an incomplete feel. The narration a vast majority of the time was unnecessary, over-used and says very little if anything at all, the only time where it halfway worked was in the opening where it did actually try to explain what was going on. The story really does plod to the point it's interminable, you get a thumping headache trying to remotely understand what little there is of it and it's padded with ham-fisted melodrama that's underwritten and a messy mix of overacted and underacted. There's also a very poorly choreographed fist fight that makes children's playground fist fighting more realistic and one of the most abrupt endings in low-budget movie history. The movie's amateurishly directed, the characters inject next to no personality whatsoever and at times were annoying and with the exception of Shane Stevens(and even he's not particularly great) the actors are like living mannequins, and that's an insult to mannequins.
Overall, worthless in every way. Best avoided. 0/10 Bethany Cox
Star Quest: The Odyssey looks dreadful visually, there are only a few sets which is not always a bad thing but it is a bad thing where they are so cheap that they wouldn't pass for sets let alone not resembling what they're supposed to be. There is some very choppy photography that may make epileptics wary and the editing was in serious need of a tightening up, that's even in the stock footage-like opening and that was the best the movie looked. And the special effects are some of the worst of any movie, so amateurish and fake in quality that they have to be seen to be believed. The music is incredibly out of place, it would work in a badly done porn movie but the monotonous drone that the music basically is does not fit here at all.
Star Quest: The Odyssey is horrendously written even for a low-budget movie. If there was ever any read-throughs or rewrites that really did not show here, the dialogue is so cheesy and very rarely makes sense, some conversations having an incomplete feel. The narration a vast majority of the time was unnecessary, over-used and says very little if anything at all, the only time where it halfway worked was in the opening where it did actually try to explain what was going on. The story really does plod to the point it's interminable, you get a thumping headache trying to remotely understand what little there is of it and it's padded with ham-fisted melodrama that's underwritten and a messy mix of overacted and underacted. There's also a very poorly choreographed fist fight that makes children's playground fist fighting more realistic and one of the most abrupt endings in low-budget movie history. The movie's amateurishly directed, the characters inject next to no personality whatsoever and at times were annoying and with the exception of Shane Stevens(and even he's not particularly great) the actors are like living mannequins, and that's an insult to mannequins.
Overall, worthless in every way. Best avoided. 0/10 Bethany Cox