Somnus

Lately, I seem to be writing a lot of really negative reviews about a lot of recent sci-fi movies but I guess that's because I'm becoming frustrated with the dross that the streaming services are offering to us. "Somnus" is another movie in this series of duds. Filmed substantially in an old British Hawker Siddely Nimrod airplane from the 60s, the film has a plot that could have been lifted from a casual acquaintance with "2001" but without any of Clarke's or Kubrick's wit or intelligence. You probably won't care about the characters and you probably won't even care about the "big picture" thing that might or might not be going on. I wonder: have we burned through all the truly creative ideas so now we're reduced to recycling everything, but only after it's been through a waste treatment plant?

Don't let the one ⭐ haters mislead you, this is not a terrible movie. It's great either, but it does have good production values and a decent soundtrack which fits the mood of the story.

Reading and Owen give us a sci fi outer space drama that can easily be looked at as a "coherent rewrite of 2001". "2001 A Space Odyssey" was an overrated bit of boredom that couldn't possibly make any sense as directed and written without a program to tell the viewer what was going on. Like 2001, we have a computer gone wrong on a space ship, and a synopsis of a scenario for the existence of human beings. Here, however, the team explains what is taking place. The characters are more credible than the paper thin ones of 2001, which were just contrived to make a sermon. That doesn't make this a great movie, but at least it is coherent.

I'm no "couch critic", like a BUNCH on here! So I'm not gonna spew a bunch of hyperbole at ya.... I'm just a regular guy that LOVES Sci-Fi, Horror, etc, and I thought this was a Pretty Good movie! It kept my attention, and I enjoyed watching it! PERIOD! LOL So many people LOOK for the "Bad" in a Movie... Relax people and "Allow Yourself" To enjoy a Movie! LOL Thanks Folks!

Love Chris Reading's style - I'm a big fan of his new stuff 'Alien: Containment' and 'The Unreason' but this is really awesome too - so cool to see his early stuff!

After few hundred miles in this beautiful World, i choose this movie for a bit of relaxation. And indeed was a good idea. Not a hundred million movie, but a cool-relaxing end of humanity movie, with a computer with an agenda, a forgotten human colony, an eating-humans astro-dog LOL and ofcorse some unknown aliens that purge all in their way, just because some humans are aggressive. Not want to start and give hints to that smart-calm- aliens about how to calm people down... for example with a 'good' air- virus... or say bad words about them... hey idi.ots... only you have permission to destroy?! If humans are aggressive they must all die? LOL But this was time of relaxing, not to scream to the producers... so the movie accomplished its purpose. For that and only for that it have note 8.