Dominion (2015) Reviews

• Pedestrian, repetitive and almost unwatchable.

  richard-cullen9712015-10-21

  I am a sci-fi genre addict and can excuse many failings in a film, but this was one of the slowest, least-engaging films I have ever attempted to watch. I've flagged this up for spoilers, but to be honest so little happens in this film there is almost no plot that can be spoiled! The opening minutes give the impression that you might be in for an interesting science fiction adventure, but then almost nothing happens for the next 40 minutes apart from people talking about exciting events that have taken place off-camera (with infrequent cut scenes of spacecraft possibly doing something interesting away from the narrative and black SUVs driving about). "We're going to set the world on fire with this" exclaims a character - as we watch film of a guy wandering about in the desert - filmed on, seemingly, a broken smart phone, coupled to snap shots and documents gathered through Google. Exciting music kicks in as they - upload it to the internet... We're told that the Moon is an artificial base for an invasion, and that NASA are in on events - but then, without showing us anything of the sort, the film immediately moves onto the more important shots of MiB agents disturbing afternoon wine tasting (with their faces suggesting that they are utterly terrified of confronting an unarmed OAP). After an hour we pay a brief visit to what appears to be the CGI set of Babylon 5. 14 minutes later a voice-over tells us about the (unseen) invasion and later (not shown) space-battle and the end of life on Earth, while we see a few space ships gently flying about on the screen accompanied by Dvorak's New World Symphony - with the film ending by showing us the new human home world (from orbit only). Bluntly, this film takes itself too seriously, yet delivers far less content to think about than even parody films like Iron Sky. There is no reason for the viewer to care about the fate of the main characters, or even fear the arrival of the alien invasion and it was a real effort to watch this film through to its conclusion. As an actor I try to respect other people's work, and I keep almost all DVDs that I buy to watch again periodically, but this one will be going straight into the nearest charity box.

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• Difficult to summarise

  richardclifton2015-10-25

  I wish I could have given this zero stars or worse. Maybe negative stars should be an option. OK, a truly awful movie sometimes appears on supermarket shelves and sometimes we get taken in and pay a few pounds or dollars for it. We learn by experience. This is more serious. This is a crime. This is not a movie of any kind. This is a bit like dummy websites on the net which sound interesting but contain only links to scams. Except it doesn't even fulfil a purpose of that kind, or any purpose that I can understand. I really want to understand how a crime like this was perpetrated. I thought maybe some studio in the straight-to-DVD market had some stray footage from a movie (from the 1980s) which never got made. They asked an aspiring director to make something out of it, to make a few bucks back from whatever investment there was. We all know about good movies which have come from something like that. Unfortunately this is not one of those. I don't know what this is or how it ever got made. Or how it ever appeared on the DVD shelves of Sainsburys UK at the price of 5 whole pounds, at number 43 in the DVD chart!

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• A rough and raw Sci-Fi experience that's hard to sit through

  eddie_baggins2018-04-18

  Released in certain territories around the world in 2015, Dominion: The Last Star Warrior is a rough, raw and ridiculous sci-fi experience that at its core harbors an interesting idea but in inception delivers a tiresome and dialogue heavy offering that is anchored down by bargain bin worthy delivery and a convoluted plot that is far too high reaching for director Richard Lowry's 80 minute feature. If I was being honest, Dominion is almost (and I mean really close to being) a so bad its good event but thanks to its inability to instil itself with any sort of energy or heart, Lowry's poorly executed effort becomes harder to bare as the runtime clicks ever so slowly onwards. After an initially intriguing set-up, you feel like it's possible this could be a tolerable low-budget affair but after an extended opening credits period, Dominion starts to fall very quickly off the rails as its plot line becomes more apparent and increasingly tiresome. Centring around Barry Lynch's retired US Intelligence agent turned UFO investigator Robert Casey and his dealings with Travis Hammer's Jaelen, a human-like being from another planet whose operating as an observer on our planet and tells Casey about the unfortunate impending doom of Earth in 5 days, Dominion does have the bare bones of a decent story but it's never allowed to grow in Lowry's poorly delivered and badly acted tale. When you throw in a laughably bad love story between Jaelen and a women he fell in love with whilst on Earth and a bunch of other-worldly races and beings that we never really get to know much about, poor old Dominion never really stands a chance in a day and age where consumers expect a certain amount of quality control and performances with a pulse. Final Say - For the most tolerant and Sci-Fi obsessed movie goer Dominion may provide some type of entertainment for 80 minutes but for the rest of us, this shoddy and raw feature is an extremely tough viewing experience. ½ a long opening credits sequence out of 5

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• I'm not from L.A. or Earth

  nogodnomasters2018-04-13

  Robert Casey (Barry Lynch) publishes books on UFOs and the government cover up. He teams up with Jaylen (Travis Hammer) who is from Andromeda and and warns of a Draconian invasion that will wipe out human existence, except for those Illuminati humans that run the planet who are in cahoots with the aliens. The film was suicide boring. It consisted mostly of people talking. It is into conspiracy theories about ancient astronauts, UFOs and government secret bases. Yes we need those AR-15' so we can overwhelm the government at these secret bases when the aliens attack. The plot was horrible as was the dialogue and acting. The other issue is that the budget doesn't allow the production to show any battle scenes. They are read to us. I am not sure who started the trend to name aliens from the visible earth constellation. It is idiotic as the stars in the constellation are not really part of a close cluster, they just appear that way. And why would someone who lives on a planet that circles a star in constellation of Arcturus refer to themselves as Arcturians? People who like this conspiracy nonsense might also like "Harodim." BTW empty computer folders do not have documents, pictures, or film in them. Guide: No F-words, sex, or nudity. DVD has English subtitles.

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• Do not believe it

  augustian2017-09-26

  Do not believe what you see on the DVD cover which seems to indicate that the viewer is in for a feast of special effects and alien action. What you actually get is a rather pedestrian conspiracy thriller in which a UFO watcher, together with a very human-looking alien try to warn the world that the world will end in five days when some draconian aliens, who just happen to be called Draconians (how original is that?) will launch their invasion. The plot seems to involve NASA, or maybe the NSA who are also in on the plot to destroy Earth, and therefore themselves, trying to stop our intrepid duo. In the meantime, the alien's human girlfriend has had a forced abortion and a file containing the facts has taken about four hours to upload to the internet. It seems that the Americans are still on dial-up. Anyway, by the end of the film we have seen none of the draconian Draconions and a voice-over tells us that the human survivors have been taken to a new planet - we do not get to see that either. Now that I have written this review, I can forget all about it - which you should do too.

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