WING COMMANDER - Some movies should have a reset button.
WING COMMANDER (the movie, not the game) Originally published 12/6/99
Video games based on movies are nothing new. I'd venture to say that nearly every successful sci-fi or action movie of the last 20 years has had a video game of some sort based on it. But in this case the game came first, which is a bad idea to say the least.
You see video games are basically point, shoot, score. Wing Commander, the movie, has less plot than that.
Wing Commander is the story of Lt. Christopher "Maverick" Blair (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Lt. Thomas "Maniac" Marshall (Matthew Lillard) who are both fighter pilots in a war against the Kilrathi, an alien race of big ugly cat-people. Blair is something of an outcast because he is half "pilgrim", a race of unpopular outcasts. There are of course the predictable clashes between Blair and everyone else due to this fact as everyone questions his loyalties. Also as in most films, David Warner shows up and then not much happens.
The special effects aren't bad, but they can't make up for the utter lack of interest you'll have in all the characters in this movie. The ending is predictable as Blair must prove himself to everyone in order to save the earth from the cat-people.
By the way, Wing Commander the video game starred Mark "Luke Skywalker" Hamill, guess he was too busy to star in the movie version.
To make matters worse I returned the tape late to BLOCKBUSTER, which means I had to pay extra to view it. BAH!
Video games based on movies are nothing new. I'd venture to say that nearly every successful sci-fi or action movie of the last 20 years has had a video game of some sort based on it. But in this case the game came first, which is a bad idea to say the least.
You see video games are basically point, shoot, score. Wing Commander, the movie, has less plot than that.
Wing Commander is the story of Lt. Christopher "Maverick" Blair (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Lt. Thomas "Maniac" Marshall (Matthew Lillard) who are both fighter pilots in a war against the Kilrathi, an alien race of big ugly cat-people. Blair is something of an outcast because he is half "pilgrim", a race of unpopular outcasts. There are of course the predictable clashes between Blair and everyone else due to this fact as everyone questions his loyalties. Also as in most films, David Warner shows up and then not much happens.
The special effects aren't bad, but they can't make up for the utter lack of interest you'll have in all the characters in this movie. The ending is predictable as Blair must prove himself to everyone in order to save the earth from the cat-people.
By the way, Wing Commander the video game starred Mark "Luke Skywalker" Hamill, guess he was too busy to star in the movie version.
To make matters worse I returned the tape late to BLOCKBUSTER, which means I had to pay extra to view it. BAH!
posted by Jeff at 12:19 AM
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