Serenity - Filmless Review

A VERY SPECIAL Filmless Review

Why is this a very special Filmless Review? Because I actually saw this movie. Oh joy! Serenity is the story of a rag-tag band of space mercenaries... but nice space mercenaries. The entire plot is veeeery complicated, and I have no intention of going through the whole thing, so you're getting a highly condensed version that may or may not make sense in the end. So... it's the 26th Century, and this band of nice space mercenaries (well, that's giving a bad implication; they commit small crimes and conduct transport for payment... they're not soldiers-for-hire) is doing the usual, when a member of the crew decides to save his psychic super-hero rebel sister from Alliance custody. This Alliance isn't necessarily evil, so don't imply that this is ripping off Star Wars... borrowing heavily is the proper term. Anyway, the guy saves his sister, brings her on board, and all kinds of crazy crap ensues because she is in possession of some damaging information.

So how is this VERY SPECIAL Filmless Review any different from your run-of-the-mill Filmless Review? Well, that plot outline was slightly more in-depth than it usually is. As usual, I will now veer wildly off-topic and end up finding some reason to call this movie a piece of crap. Shall we?

You may not be aware of this, but Serenity is actually a continuation of a television series on Fox that was cancelled 11 episodes into its existence. If you go buy the Firefly DVD set (the ship they ride is called Serenity, the show was called Firefly) you will actually get to see 14 episodes, but I guess the ratings were so poor that Fox had to pull the plug ASAP. Word on the street is that DVD sales have been very strong, and as a result some movie exec decided that it would be worthwhile to fund Serenity from an economic standpoint. I mean, it didn't completely bomb in its opening week ($10.1mil), but I'm sure that it will end up having lost money when all is said and done. All four of you that regularly watched Firefly will be rewarded when you go to see Serenity.

You know what? Since I went to go see this one, I can give a legitimate verdict on the film's quality. I'll give it a 7/10. Nice sci-fi action flick, with some suspense, some laughs, and some stuff you'll enjoy a lot more if you study up before hand.

P.S. - This was also very special because I wrote about a movie that came out over a week ago. This is almost as good as when I wrote about "Proof" like 3 weeks before it went national.