Battle
For Skyark (2015/Lionsgate DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: D Film: C
Sporting
a decent plot that closely follows the hero's journey mythic
structure and archetypes that have been the blueprint to some of the
greatest fantasy films ever created, Simon Hung's The Battle of
Skyark (2015) is an ambitious low budget film that should have
been a big budget studio project with a better cast and screenplay.
The result is something akin to a SyFy Channel movie that constantly
borrows off ideas from other films in the Science Fiction genre like
Mad Max, Stargate, Sky Captain and the World of
Tomorrow to name a few. The film also has some of the worst
character names in recent history (Rags, Rusty, Ash (the the
character from Ridley Scott's Alien (1979)), Birdie, Skunk) –
ack!
When
a mysterious race of creatures takes over a desolate Earth, humanity
must take refuge in SkyArk, the city in the sky. After the rebellion
against a corrupt leadership fails, the wealthy doom the rebels'
children to live on the ruins of the old Earth. The rebel leader's
son, Rags, must lead his fellow exiles against the monsters in order
to have a chance to return to SkyArk, but he soon finds that he has a
much greater purpose in saving humanity.
Presented
in standard definition with an anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio of
2.35:1 and a lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 track, the film looks and sounds
fine on DVD but could benefit to a Blu-ray release. No extras.
-
James Lockhart
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