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Cosmic sin review4/12/2023 Their characters felt hollow, and I felt nothing from them except annoyance. That being said, the performances from Brandon Thomas Lee, Costas Mandylor and Adelaide Kane were real standouts for me, with their superb acting, on screen presence and chemistry.īesides Wilis, Perry Reeves who plays Dr Lea Goss and C.J.Perry as Sol Cantos were a bit of a let down. You go from slowly following and understanding the premise to thinking that you’ve missed something because now you’re slightly confused at what’s just happened… things start to not make sense anymore. When the film hits the halfway mark it changes pace and the tone differs slightly. You get the impression that the film is almost finished. Things that might’ve been important were sadly missed. The start of the film is exciting and intense, and keeps you hooked with the premise of potential alien attacks, but at times the volume of the music and sound effects dilutes the dialogue and it’s hard to hear what is said. Ryle) seems to be compensating on his behalf. Even though Willis is known for being a charismatic actor and has starred in many films over the years, his performance in Cosmic Sin is extermely lackluster, and his partner Frank Grillo (who plays his boss Gen. I enjoyed seeing Mr Willis back on our screens again, but I was unsure of his character, James Ford the “Blood General”, from the moment he walked into that bar at the start of the film. What is lacking however is Bruce Willis’s presence as our lead character, despite his name being front and center of all the posters. In the hopes of the human race not becoming extinguished and to stop a potential interstellar war, these soldiers launch a precautionary strike against them.Ĭo-written and directed by Edward Drake, and co-written by actor Corey Large (who also stars in the film as Bruce’s bff Dash), Cosmic Sin brings you action, aliens, impressive looking weapons, as well as some sarcastic and funny humour. In the year 2524, 400 years since humankind was able to colonise the cosmos, Cosmic Sin sees 7 soldiers part of a team governed by “The Alliance” who are attacked by a newly discovered civilization of forceful aliens. Win a copy of Cosmic Sin with our competition here.Cosmic Sin is an American sci-fi film starring Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo and directed by Edward Drake. The more interesting aspects of the plot come from the psychological elements surrounding the aliens’ motivations, but this just feels like an afterthought and are put aside in favour of painfully cliche dialogue and unconvincing action sequences.ĭespite not having much to work with, you have to offer some credit to the younger members of this ensemble cast, with standouts Braxton (Brandon Thomas Lee), Fiona (Adelaide Kane), and Sol (WWE’s ‘Lana’ – CJ Perry) who offer some much-needed freshness to a stale backdrop.Ĭosmic Sin works well enough as a low budget sci-fi action, but it’s hard to avoid the sad reality that having a sub-par Willis involved, who’s attached to some of the best that the genre has to offer, leaves us with nothing new or bold enough to elevate itself from being anywhere near as watchable as its peers.Ĭosmic Sin is available on digital and DVD from 1 March. Though the plot initially seems to revolve around him as the officer calling all the shots (and being the top-billed star on the poster alongside Willis), he is bizarrely on screen for less than half the runtime and is then left to float in space for the main chunk of the movie until the finale. Then we have Grillo’s General Eron Ryle, who in a totally mystifying turn has hardly anything to offer in his role. He’s either a rocket launching-wielding badass with a troubled past or an unconvincingly thoughtful soul that “just wants someone to look at the stars with…” James Ford is a bewildering character (and played half-heartedly by Willis), jumping between two extremes with lacklustre. At this point, alarm bells should most certainly be ringing – not just for the fate of the unfortunate soldiers, but for the unfortunate audience members as to where things are heading…īewildering plot points aside, the film’s two leads feel underused and lacking. In an attempt to prevent intergalactic war, retired military general, James Ford (Bruce Willis) is reinstated, where he teams up with General Eron Ryle (Frank Grillo) and a squad of soldiers to see if peace can be made.įrom the off, Cosmic Sin gives us a few questionable moments in the story, such as the military allowing the attacked (and clearly somehow infected) soldiers to just stroll back into their army base without much of a concern. Set in 2524 (500 years after the human race began colonising Mars and other outer planets), Cosmic Sin sees the human race reeling from an attack by an alien race after first contact is made.
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