Space Wars: Quest for the Deepstar

Garo Setian has done a brilliant job of story telling with homage to great sci fi fun from the past. In this film you find a unique storyline spread against a backdrop of imagery reminding one of shows like Battlestar Galactica and Flash Gordon. Michael Pare and Sarah French are fantastic in the hero roles and Olivier Gruner is perfect as the villain. The film provides a wonderful action adventure ride woven through time honored human struggles relatable to all. It starts out with a an expectation to entertain and does not disappoint. It relies on creativity where many films like it spend money on CGI and forget to be creative. Looking forward to a sequel and more.

To me, Michael Paré brings back my childhood, the B movies that were at the same time awesome and ridiculous. It's easy to understand why the first thing that pops up when you google him is "how old is Michael Paré?". Well, he's 65 and he now plays in these independent movies that are as low budget as they come. But they are also fun. In this one, stupidly called Space Wars because there are just a bunch of people on ships shooting at each other and nothing at the scale of a war, three parties are engaged in finding either a legendary space treasure or each other in order to enact revenge. The CGI is ludicrous, the green screen effects are obvious, the acting is almost terrible, the story is pathetic. Yet I enjoyed it. Not because of any inherent technical quality of the film, but because someone scrapped to get this done, did whatever they could to make it happen and had fun doing it. Bottom line: a ridiculous movie, but one that fills me with nostalgia for the films of old, where the greatest achievement you could think of was getting the movie done and the rest was the pure joy of performing.

Really, the title of this review says it all. In the 1970's there were a number of cheap Italian knock-off sci-fi movies that were cheap, flashy and stupid. They also had STYLE. This is pretty much a homage to those movies but with better effects and better actors. Yes, the script is stupid and the lines are awful but incredibly the actors do actually manage to give them some weight. Not a lot of weight, it must be said, but that they managed it at all is very much to their credit. The script manages to throw in some surprises, while (sigh) still including the many predictable scenes you come to expect from low budget movies It's a very silly movie but it's also a remarkably enjoyable one that manages to decently punch above its low budget and a lot of credit goes to everyone involved in its making. By way of disclaimer - I was NOT involved in the production in any way, nor do I know anyone who was. Nobody goes out of their way to make a bad movie. They try to make a good movie, and with the limited resources available to them they came reasonably close to it. So, get some popcorn, turn off your brain and enjoy it for what it is. A romp. Oh, and I just noticed that someone else called their review "The 1970's called, they want their movie back" Ah well, I clearly wasn't the only fan of cheap Italian sci-fi knock-offs.

I don't understand the other reviewers here. The acting is objectively VERY bad, across the board, with no exceptions. The script was written either by a high school kid or by someone who works at a strip club. I genuinely believe most of the cast work at the same strip club IRL, and this 'indie flick' was their passion project. The costumes and sets are worse than I've seen in any high school or indie production, and no - there's no redeeming CGI effects. There is nothing redeeming...sadly. I adored Farscape, so the reviews here crediting the acting and the campy 70s 80s scifi vibe actually won me over - that is a BALD LIE. You're better off watching Farscape or even. Xena Warrior Princess. Unless you're personal friends with someone at the strip club that made this film, and you just want to see what they came up with. If you are this unicorn, you might be very VAGUELY entertained, but you will still wish you had that time back.

I have to admit that when I sat down to watch the 2022 sci-fi adventure movie "Space Wars: Quest for the Deepstar", then I wasn't really harboring the biggest of expectations to the movie. First of all, the movie's title just screamed low budget, and the cast ensemble wasn't exactly top of the line either. However, I opted to give director Garo Setian's 2022 movie the benefit of the doubt and sit down to watch it. The storyline in the movie, as written by Joe Knetter and Garo Setian, was watchable for what it was. And that was a generic space adventure. But hang on, I will say that there was a distinct atmospheric feel of the low budget space adventure sci-fi movies of the 1970s and 1980s. So if you enjoy those corny, campy space adventures, then perhaps "Space Wars: Quest for the Deepstar" will prove entertaining and enjoyable for you. I found little to be thrilled or entertained about throughout the 90 minutes that the movie ran for, and I will not be returning to watching it a second time. Then again, I am not overly keen on sci-fi in general, so that also speaks against this movie. The acting performances in the movie were fair enough, for the most parts. There were some toe-curling and cringeworthy acting from the actress portraying the main villain. Visually then I will say that "Space Wars: Quest for the Deepstar" was actually not bad. Sure, it wasn't impressive and in-your-face special effects that will blow you away. But in all fairness, then the CGI used in this 2022 sci-fi adventure movie was actually not bad. My rating of "Space Wars: Quest for the Deepstar" lands on a four out of ten stars.

The reviews on this ran from very bad to very good. I like scify and the synopsis appealed to me, so I gave it a try. The film falls completely at the lowest end of the rating scale. In every way it was a very poorly made film. The acting is abysmal, the special effects are even worse. Did not watch it long enough to know if there was plot. It's not even worth investing the 20 minutes that I gave this film. Now, i am not a movie snob and am relatively easy to please but this just missed every mark. Do yourself a big favor and give this a complete pass. I don't know what's happening now but most of the new movies rate with this one.