7/13/2023 0 Comments Wing commander movieLucky for them (and us, I guess) Blair is some half-breed human / spaceborn gravitational genius, and in less than 10 seconds he is able to plot a course that takes them right to the Tiger Claw. Old Man Taggart gives the com to Marshall, who immediately screws up and pilots them too close to a blackhole or something. The Diligent gets a message from Earth command to deliver a mission assignment to the Tiger Claw, which is convenient, because they were headed there anyways. Matthew Lillard, of course, having his acting career destroyed by Scooby Doo movies, and has subsequently spent the last 12 years of his life doing little else other than rehashing the character Shaggy. Wing Commander is the second of what is apparently five match-ups of Freddie Prinze Jr. This ship has a crew of one old guy (Tchéky Karyo) named Taggart and two rookie pilots being transported to their first assignment in deep space. Now we cut to a small cargo ship, the Diligent. The Kilrathi now have access to the CO’s computer! Let’s hope there wasn’t anything inappropriate on there… Instead he sends out a little distress pod and goes down with the station. The CO of the station tries somewhat comically to shoot and smash his way into the computer room to prevent it from falling into enemy hands, but to no avail. Their target? The computer that allows humans to travel through space. On the space station Pegasus, it is business as usual, until a Kilrathi fleet comes out of nowhere and easily destroys all the ships and boards the station. The movie opens with some exposition that mankind was conquering space and everything until they ran into a race of aliens called the Kilrathi and now they are in a desperate war against them. You don’t want to bog down a film production with a director who has experience or a proven track record. Video game design and making movies are basically the same, so I’m sure in hindsight this will be viewed as the good decision it obviously is. Then it says directed by the same Chris Roberts. The opening credits say based on the games and novels by Chris Roberts. They definitely aren’t allowed to misrepresent a movie on these things. This jacket cover makes the movie sound pretty exciting, so I’m optimistic. Blair, a fighter pilot, joins an interstellar war to fight the evil Kilrathi who are trying to destroy the universe.
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