Here’s my review on the movie Serenity by Universal. When I first saw it on the TV commercials I wanted to see it. It’s a SciFi and I love SciFi. It looked like it had plenty of action and was hoping not to be disappointed when I started watching it.
The movie has a style of a cross between Star Wars and Star Trek. A large group of humans leave earth looking for new places to live cause the human population has grown too big for the planet to sustain them all. They found a new solar system and began to terraform on many of the planets and create new cities. China and the US, the 2 most powerful countries on Earth, unite to become the most powerful country on Earth for the better of the planet. In this union the world chances, Americans speak Chinese and money has both languages on it.
As the humans settle on their new homes, one Govt is formed to reign over all these planets. But not everyone agrees with this idea and so a civil war begins where eventually the Govt wins and many lives are lost. A Chemical called G-23 Paxilon Hydroclorate was added to the environment to control peoples aggression to eliminate fighting and gain peace. But the cure became worse than the sickness as you will see in the movie.
The movie focuses on a group of people who go about committing robberies as petty thieves and with them they carry a girl, who the Alliance Military is searching cause she is considered a very powerful weapon and they want her back at all cost, and her brother. The girl has some special abilities that when unleashed can cause some devastating actions. As they go about taking care of business they will eventually have the Alliance Military after them and will force them to find out why the girl is so important to them. Not to mention that as the face the Alliance Military they also have another type of creature to be aware of… Reavers.
I was hoping the movie was gonna be good and I, personally, was not disappointed. The movie has some pretty good fighting scenes. Specially the girl. The ship fights in space are close to Star Wars quality. It does get boring at times but keep paying attention, the story line does get you going. All in all the movie was pretty good from my point of view and for those who like SciFi will probably like this movie. It’s not a blockbuster, but it’s good enough for a good weekend movie at home.
I give this movie 3 ½ Stars out of 5 for the lack of more scenes with the Reavers who could have filled those few dull scenes the movie had with some more action.