Star Quest: The Odyssey (2009) User Reviews

This will make you stronger

[indesec · 1/10 · 1 November 2009]

Having grown up on a healthy diet of Sci-fi, loving all types, from the brilliant, to the insane to the ridiculous, I feel, for the first time strangely drawn to leave a comment on this movie.

Once I moved pass the obvious Klingon type people, that where also cyborgs, with bits of old circuit boards strapped to their chests, grunting and punching cardboard walls, once I arrived at the red painted grain silo that was a super computer, once I moved from the absolutely rubbish graphics, once I moved pass the bridge of the ship which is, well the closet I can relate to is a child's bedroom, once I had moved pass all these things, and finally reached the end of the film (Use the term lightly) which really isn't an ending at all, I felt proud, proud and strong.

I now know, that should I be kidnapped, tortured, stripped naked and become the bitch of some serial killer, in prison for life, I know, that this film will help me endure all these things, because if you can watch, this pile of garbage to the end, trust me, you will be a stronger person for it.

If I was an actor, down on his luck, I would probably take what ever job was offered, but this!!!! Shame on you guys, its terrible, and you know its terrible.

By the way, just my advice, on your resumes, don't for Gods sake mention this, you will never work again.

Save yourself the trouble

[robhall_ie · 1/10 · 27 October 2009]

I read the other reviews of this movie and thought it was worth a shot. I've been trying to find good scifi to watch lately and having a hard time of it.

Even with a bad hangover and no remote to flick channels with this is a movie that will stretch your ability to persevere. You WILL crawl across the floor to hit the channel button.

The acting is, well, terrible. Totally wooden. The wardrobe was bought for a total of 10 quid by the look of it. The sets are very cheap. But to be honest you would get over the wardrobe/sets if the acting was better.

It looks like every sentence of dialog was filmed individually and then cut together in the editing room. Hardly any of the exchanges are memorable/believable.

The plot is pretty nonsensical too. Random things seem to happen that are called "the plot". Someone actually gave this movie 7/10 which I really can't believe.

I know this was a low budget flick but maybe they would have been better off not spending whatever money they did have.

OK, I'll stop now.

Its more like a .01 rating

[jeffbduncan · 1/10 · 9 April 2010]

Easily the WORST movie made of all time. So awful in fact that this had to be their goal. See how much $ they can make by slapping a colorful cover on the winner of the 6th Grade independent movie contest in Bowie Texas. Here are a few of the worst parts: - In the distant future society becomes so advanced, we no longer use primitive wedding rings. Instead we exchange cheap plastic lanyard bracelets. - Future deep space ships are so technical that the ship will violently shake if a washer from a 2inch bolt breaks. Yet when the ship takes a direct hit from enemy fire it barely rocks side to side. - I had no idea that futuristic Cyborgs will be made from a cotton & polyester outer layer, with a few speaker wires dangling from their hi-tech armor which looked more like black plastic shin-guards placed on their shoulders. - The cyborg literally wears those boots you get after ankle surgery when your on crutches or what you wear while rehabbing an ankle/foot injury. - The main character (Ships Captain)has a gap in his front teeth worse then David Letterman + Mike Strahan combined. - Oh & his futuristic space shoes really helped capture his powerful leader position. Im just sad ill never be able to find slip-on Hush Puppies with air vents on the side like his. - FYI there are literally 8-9 people in this entire movie! Inter-planetary wars, yea right. How does a 6 member crew operate a spaceship the size of Manhattan Island. Maverick Entertainment You Should Be Ashamed!!! Not just for making the worst movie of all-time but for actually attempting to make a sequel to what felt like 90mins of HELL ON EARTH!

Should be used by the CIA as torture.

[tdevereaux · 1/10 · 2 January 2010]

This movie is little more than cheesy student film. The acting, the writing and the directing are very amateurish. Many people have complained about the special effects and CGI. I was expecting that for a low budget movie such as this, so it didn't bother me. I watch low budget movies to see them rise above their limits but "Star Quest" failed miserably at that. It is filled with tired clichés and blatant ripoffs. Someone should check the directors backpack for a copy of "Movie Directing for Dummies". Of the many problems I think the cheesiest were the multiple flashbacks that were silent except for the melodramatic slow piano music.

If you're looking for a campy low budget sci fi film that fires your imagination than look elsewhere. If you are a student filmmaker who needs a "what not to do" example, then this is your movie.

Painful to watch

[Shadow_Wraith · 2/10 · 27 October 2009]

What can i say, i know it was a low budget film and they may have tried, but this is worse the the asylum moves out there, lol i was actually looking in credits to see if they had anything to do with it. on my humble opinion i think i would have rather sat and watched attack of the killer tomato's. The design of the cgi ship was good but most of the space scenes were like watching a game intro with a lousy graphics card and very little memory, ie. not a smooth flow and most game graphics have better cgi. The acting was as expected in a low budget film and the fight scenes did not even look real, as i stated up the top the design of the space ship was what prompted me to give the score above, as for the movie itself i would only recommend it to someone i really didn't like just for the satisfaction of knowing that they wasted there time watching it.

Wow! Are you joking?

[dawn_patrol65 · 1/10 · 27 December 2009]

First of all, what the heck was this? The cgi in this film looked like something a fourth grader conjured up. Low budget or not. Surely you could have done better than that? The story line bounced around to so many meaningless angles that it made my head spin, which was good in a way, considering the fact that the acting was about to make me shoot myself. The whole thing reminded me of a lame porn(yes, I had seen a couple when I was younger). The only thing missing was the xxx scenes. It even had porn music playing throughout the whole thing. The acting was so flat, that it made me believe these actors and actresses had been given a lobotomy prior to the filming. Could someone please be kind enough to hire them to be employed in a "workshop" facility? If you watch this movie through to the end, you are either brave...sorry, not brave. You have to be a vegetable to get through this one.

If ratings went into the negatives I'd give it a 10

[indie_vision · 1/10 · 5 November 2009]

Space Quest, the final frontier of bad films. I wouldn't even consider this a "B" movie, it'd be a "C" movie for crap. The acting is horrible and the Captain Tanner looks like an emotionless action figure. I mean of all the science fiction films this one has stars that MOVE with the ship, even though they're billions of light years away this gives the illusion that it's snowing in space. Also the ship lags like hell whoever did the CGI doesn't know how to RENDER properly. The "cyborgs" in this look like they just took a few computer parts and slapped it on their bodies. The fight scenes look like a rock'em sock'em robots match. I don't get how in the future a "hyperdrive" can be broken due to a modern washer... though I admit the bridge of the ship looks pretty decent. The intercoms sound like they're talking out of a toilet. I understand this is a low budget indie film that got distribution but it doesn't justify the fact that it sucks. If you pay money to see this or not it is a waist of 90 minutes of your life regardless....

You've got to be kidding!

[rhall-686-454818 · 14 March 2010]

OK I was desperate for some new sci-fi and picked up this and another one called Humanity's End. Starquest was awful. Bad acting, terrible sets, terrible costumes. What was the budget $5? I could have made a better show with a camera, two boxes and a couple of sticks. This set sci-fi movies back 50 no make that 75 years! The sets look like they were built in someones closet, the acting was terrible at best, the only good thing about this movie was it was over. I've seen '50's sci-fi movies better than this. Starquest is definitely not to be rented or purchased. If you happen to get it don't put it in your DVD player. Just take it out of the box, throw it away and use the DVD box for your home movies. Believe me it's for the best.

Terrible

[eanmoss · 1/10 · 8 November 2009]

This is the second straight movie where I've thought "so bad it's good." However, this one was just bad.

What was the plot? They left this movie in a cliffhanger as if anyone will force themselves to watch the sequel.

The music didn't match the movie at all. The chemistry of the cast was not there. There was no final battle to speak of.

The CGI was about what you'd expect from a TV show made in the 1990's.

The thing that kills me about this is that Blockbuster called it a "Hot new release." Please.

With "plot" this bad, you need clever writing and chemistry between the cast members to make up for it. No such luck in this one.

A bad Star Trek ripoff

[JoeB131 · 1/10 · 23 November 2009]

Even the worst Star Trek movie was more enjoyable than this mess.

Okay, the plot is that in a distant future, humanity has divided between normal humans and a race of cyborgs. They fight a war, but at the moment of peace, they decide to send a starship with a huge crew of five (Yup, probably as many ill-fitting uniforms they could afford to have made) escort two cyborg emissaries back to earth.

Let's talk about the cyborgs. They are a cross between Klingons and Borg, with all the "interesting" surgically removed.

I have no doubt the only reason that Maverick Films (when you see their logo in the front of a film, you know you've been had) decided to cash in on the new Star Trek film.

Cheesy special effects, bad acting, recycled starship shots... a cliffhanger ending on the optimism that anyone would want to see a sequel... All just kind of sad.

Whole new great concepts!

[nooware · 1/10 · 6 April 2012]

I bet you haven't read anything positive about this... err... let's call it a video, or possibly something more like a slide show. Undeniably, it's new stuff that you can't really define as a movie, if you can define it at all.

Now if I think twice, in the end I'm sure it can add a lot of value in many ways for those who can claim the benefit.

Here's the true story: You're test subject for a team of vile cinematographic producers, who have lured you into buying their poisonous stuff. They're having fun in watching you crying, throwing up after 20 minutes of seasickness, getting angry and crushing a DVD into little bits.

I can see their evil faces, in the backyards of their Hollywood mansions. They are laughing hysterically as they are sipping their cocktail, thanks to a huge pile of 1$ bills they have amassed, including yours.

Great story, isn't it? We call it a concept. And this m... video is full of these.

You were wondering how to pay for your next holidays. These guys i.e. producer, director, actors and whatever they call themselves have the solution for you. Make your own movie. Looking at this, you have your chances for money, success, fame, glamour (hidden quote). Welcome to Hollywood, public audience!

Then don't forget to be smart. While you're at it, when you will come back from your holidays, bring the movie you have made with yourself. It will be a great sequel to your first flick, which you will sell for an additional 1$ toilet paper bill.

Thanks to Infinite Spectrum Productions and Tom Cat Films, you will boost your career. These people always have great answers for getting us out of the crisis. Like this one: nearly everyone commits suicide after 30 minutes into the video, so that means eventually the end of unemployment, and higher salaries for the few ones who are blind or who have the appropriate physical and sensory impairment to be saved.

Now that's a whole bunch of new concepts! Enough of these!

OK I can't resist a last one. Let's call this a N-Movie. N like "No", or "Never" you will watch this, except if you want to catch some kind of mental disease. Like me with this review. You want proof, you have it.

campy, fun for the family

[ginnforsberg · 6/10 · 6 November 2009]

This is low budget campy sci-fi fun for the whole family. Done with an eye at the original star trek... it is a throw back and my 7 and 8 year old boys liked it. Ya, I am one of the actors, so what... the boys still like it.

There are some good moments and I have heard that the sets were made mostly from materials bought from a Dillard store that closed. Wait a moment, I actually know this since I helped with the construction of them and stumbled on the poor store that was closing. Keep an eye out for shoe displays, cosmetic counters, watch cases, jewelry risers and more... and then start looking at the Krone outfits... good stuff. Shane Stevens and I decided that the best way to defeat a Krone is to simply put stairs into the ship, cause those things were not designed with stairs in mind.

So grab the kids, sit back and don't take it to seriously... maybe grab a drink for the adults. Make sure to watch the credits all the way through, actor Shane Stevens has a good Bale moment that will make you laugh.

Home movie Star Trek rip off should be sent where no man has gone before

[dbborroughs · 1/10 · 15 November 2009]

Really bad, almost home movie like, Star Trek rip off that gives no budget films a bad name. I've seen several no budget science fiction films over the years and while this one looks reasonably good, its poor in just about every other department. The cast is weak, the story needlessly silly. The action poorly done. Why was I watching this? I'm had pressed to know. The worst part is the film is a kind of Star Trek rip off. It begins with opening titles in a Star Trek-esquire font, continues on through the five minute history lesson that takes us from the dawn of the space age through to the films present and on to a space ship where the uniforms look like they were made by arthritic tailors. To be honest I really can't say much about the plot because after about 20 minutes I turned my brain off and started to putter around the room waiting for something exciting to happen. It never does. Don't make my mistake. This is not even amusing in a good bad sort of way.

Read the other reviews...

[darknb1971 · 16 November 2012]

Read the other reviews on the first page. Go ahead, I'll wait...

OK have you finished? Good. Now remove anything positive anyone said about this movie. There is absolutely no way a sane person could enjoy this movie. I love watching bad movies but this movie is the worst of them all, taking 90 minutes of your life and giving nothing back. As another reviewer said: It is like a porn movie without the porn. It is a series of bedroom scene setups without the payoff.

This movie is absolutely horrible and should be erased from human consciousness forever. Do NOT watch it and if you do, then for the love of all that is sacred at least do NOT pay money for that dubious privilege.

The Food Was Terrible - and the Portions Were Too Small!

[leftiebiker · 1/10 · 12 June 2010]

How can a movie that clocks in at about 70 minutes without the closing credits seem so long? I literally fell asleep halfway through it, so envy me. The special effects would have been adequate if the software had been running on a modern computer, but the one they used clearly couldn't handle even the 1980's era graphics (think Babylon 5) without making the frames jerky and the images thin. As for the acting: one of the female leads (the Doctor) is good enough to play an extra in a serious movie. So is the secondary male lead, but unfortunately he is playing a Cyborg, with a costume apparently assembled from an electronics recycling facility in the former USSR, and sporting a Fabio hair "style," so it's very difficult to take him seriously. The other actors are, well, there, mostly, on the set, saying their lines. I slept through the main plot, but please, don't fill me in.

I want my $1.07 back from Redbox.

Utterly worthless

[TheLittleSongbird · 1/10 · 12 March 2015]

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

Fool me once?

[marc-723-365925 · 3/10 · 27 April 2010]

I don't know if I should be angry with the producers so much as I am Redbox. It seems more of the budget was allocated to the cover than to the actual film. I had never seen or heard of this movie, and was simply hungry for a good scifi. I've seen some rather low budget films on Redbox before, but never quite this low. The rental should have been knocked down to at least 25%. Unfortunately, I'll probably fall victim to the same rouse again. The movie itself is not too terrible for such a low budget film, but it is pretty annoying when you're not expecting it. I guess it's the marketing that pisses me off. It wouldn't surprise me if this film will make more money off of unsuspecting customers than anything else.

What the?!@*

[dodger45 · 1/10 · 3 May 2010]

The only thing that comes to mind in describing this movie is: "bad porno movie acting (without the sex and 70's music)". I actually made it through 15 minutes before aggressively pressing stop in amazement. I only paid a buck to rent this one; but I'd still like to get a refund...along with the 15 minutes of my life back. Truly amazed that this quality, (or lack thereof) was ever budgeted. I never expected this to be Star Wars-the second coming; but I also wasn't prepared to see a middle school play either.

If they truly want to make this a hugely popular film.....put it on Mystery Science theater..it would be a hit!...or hoot.

Alien Planet has Contrails?

[spcblond · 1/10 · 30 March 2010]

Wow, it really needs a "o" out of Ten. It was so bad that even tired and distracted with another project I still couldn't handle it.

Then I realized in one frame, on the Uninhabited Planet offering Refuge, the ,LOL,the one where the "Farm Silo" thingie is, there is a Contrail. A Big contrail left from a passing aircraft. I thought it was supposed to be a non inhabited planet??? Is that where the Oceanic flight went to? I'm surprised they didn't meet Hurley. The film guy couldn't cut that out????? That actually made me laugh and I started looking and there are a lot of vapor trails all over the sky. Duh. OK, one doesn't have to look to see dumb in that movie.

Anyway another goofy thing I noticed was the Captain's chair which doesn't look like one. It had a odd convex circle in the back of it. Or it at looks convex but whatever it is, even if it was flush with the seat, it still looks like an old empty odometer from a car. Or maybe it came off the "Lost in Space Robot"? If it was convex, the captain would have to lean against a bump the whole time he was in the chair, it would have been uncomfortable. And then the captain actually WAS talking into his sleeve, I figure if the costume people had called me I would'a lent them the red dial phone with the cord (bat phone) that is on my wall. They could'a duct taped that on their sleeves and actually talked spoke into a handset.

I brought my pc to my Mom's to watch this DVD with my nephew just so we could make fun of it and my Mom (just hearing it from a distance) threatened to remove the DVD from the drive and run over it with her Mini Van and she was dead serious.

Simply Dreadful

[steve-3869 · 1/10 · 28 March 2010]

I have a fairly low entertainment threshold, and I rented this movie with pretty low expectations. But nothing could have prepared me for what a perfect storm of failure this movie is. The script is nonsensical, the CGI is choppier than one would expect even from a student project, the acting is robotic, the editing is incompetent, the sets and costuming are uninspired... there's simply nothing redeeming about this movie in any category.

I used to think that those creature-of-the-week movies that are on Syfy on Saturday nights were lame, but they're like Citizen Kane next to this flick. In fact, without exaggeration, I can say that "StarQuest: The Odyssey" is the worst movie that I have ever seen. Yes, EVER.

???

[goldensunshield · 2/10 · 30 March 2010]

I will start off by giving the movie a 2 out of pity. What was that I just watched. I don't even know why I continued watching. The movie was like the dead rat in the yard... You know its dead, but you want to make sure, so you roll it over with a stick and there are the festering maggots to prove it is dead.

I rented this movie not expecting much and I got exactly what I expected. The only thing about the movie at all worthwhile was the ship. It was beautiful. . . but that was it. Oh! The captain and the doctor were both hot with an absence of any real acting ability. The movie even lacked plot. It lacked any decent special effects, I mean wasn't that ship decoration a plastic magazine holder on the wall? The ship is enormous and only 7 crew, two who are not trustworthy and 2 of the trustworthy crew remain on the ship during the supercomputer scene? Why did they not grab a gun when the cyborg knocked him unconscious at the weapons locker? Why did the cyborg let him live? Why is anyone on that ship alive! HOW DID A SHIP TRAVELING FASTER THAN LIGHT GET HIT BY THE REPERCUSSION OF A MAGICALLY APPEARING SUPERNOVA. Nothing in nature can go faster than light that we know of! Then the movie just ends. Credits role and you swear in shock and frustration. You just watched THAT for nothing. Not even a real ending to be had. I'm sorry for whoever reads this after watching the movie. I could have forgave the cheesy special effects, or the acting, or the plot, or anything if it would have given me anything. Oh! The captain and the doctor were kinda hot together. Oh wait, cheesy romance scenes and the stupid freaking bracelet! Never mind! AHHHHHH! OK, done. I have moved on. Please make a sequel and finish this movie so I can live my life having watched a horrible movie from beginning to end.

Great for the budget

[info-19920 · 7/10 · 2 November 2009]

This film was a great effort for what was most likely an incredibly low budget. Take a look at the Exec Producer on this film. Ted Chalmers does an amazing amount of cheap, low budget films. Especially in the last year or so. I'm sure he pays almost nothing and that this, like his other films, was a work for hire. Heck, he almost always hires the same writer too.

That said, they pulled off quite a bit. Great ship effects, retro costuming, and a campy feel that pays homage to the original Star Trek series in both visuals and tone.

Don't shoot these people that were obviously hired to make a film on little to no money other than to say: "Fool you once, shame on Ted. Fool you twice, shame on you!"

WTF was that?

[truxter · 1/10 · 7 April 2010]

"Take er up" a phrase said that I assumed meant the pilot of the space ship wanted to travel further into space.

Main engine is 7 electrical boxes stacked together with an air filter on top and a vacuum hose on it's side.

200 years in the future on a far away planet, there is an American flag.

Man talks into his arm as if he is on a tricorder .... but there is nothing on his arm. guess the props man forgot the tinfoil watches.

I got this movie from red box, for a dollar and feel violated. Next time just punch me in the stomach and take the dang dollar. I have no idea what the story was. There never seemed to be a plot at all. I am offended for having watched this. I mean there was a scene that depicted the ship hitting something (all of space and they hit something????) but instead of a big boom, the camera shook and someone rattled pots and pans. Then the video shows the outside of the ship..... nothing there.

I love indie films.. this is no indie film.

If you want to laugh, please rent this movie

[stirdgit · 2 May 2010]

First off, I must say, I have seen some bad movies in my day. I endured "The Butterfly Effect", "Rocky 5", "The Exorcist 3"... and many more. But "Star Quest: The Odyssey" takes the prize. Please... please do yourself a favor and rent this movie. If you are into bad movies... and I mean movies so bad they make you cry laughing then this is the movie for you. I can't begin to tell you how bad this movie is. You must experience it for yourself. I could try to explain the weak plot, or the bad acting, or the slow motion, cheese-filled flash back scenes, but it would do no good. Again, this is one you must experience for yourself. I could try to convey to you just how poorly rendered the special effects are, but you would never in a million years believe that such slop could somehow manage to obtain distribution. This is a true masterpiece of "bad", the holy grail of garbage, the Stanley Cup of feces. Anyone with a camcorder and a severe case of stupid could've constructed this flaming pile of dung. Actually, anyone with just a little too much time on his or her hands could've at least made something worth sitting through. I tried. I tried valiantly to make it through this thing but I failed. After the comedy wore off, I found myself seething with rage; angry that a troop with such an obvious lack of talent and ability had made it even this far in the movie industry. I watched exactly 44:23 of this abomination and turned it off. The tears of laughter had dried up 20 minutes ago; the next 24:23 was simply boring and bad. I realized that there are some tests of endurance that simply are too much for me. I failed in my quest. But alas! There were those glorious first 23 minutes! Truly I have never laughed so hard at a movie in all my life. No... this was not the intent of the director, nor was it the desired effect of those who saw fit to fund this squalid pile of filth. But for 23 minutes of my life, I pounded the floor in shear blissful conviviality... purely overwhelming jocularity as I watched what is, hands down, the worst movie in the history of forever. And so in closing, I implore you, if you want to laugh at the misfortunes of others, without feeling bad about yourself, please rent this movie.

Pathetic

[mrlc-2 · 1/10 · 5 April 2010]

Whoever put this together should be paying people to watch it.

Bad sets, worse script and even worse acting and then it ends as if there is to be a sequel.

I hope no one wastes their money producing a sequel unless they need the write off.

Whatever you do, don't waste your money buying this.

I believe a five year old could do better and probably already has.

I was lucky to have only wasted one dollar renting it from Redbox.

How can anyone even think of putting something like this out for publication? But, if you have time to waste and don't mind having your mind bored to death, go ahead and watch it.