And so a seven-person team is quantum-dispatched to another planet to gather coordinates and fire the bomb. “Thank you, doctor,” Grillo’s gruff general rebuffs her, his mind now made up. “But General, I was just 25-year-old student…” she interjects. Lea Goss (Perrey Reeves), who once wrote a college thesis on the benefits of preemptively exploding alien worlds. A grumbly Bruce Willis as James Ford, a shoot-first space veteran who was thrown out of the space force for his aggressive tactics, and called back in by Ryle from his retirement at the saloon. Luckily, he has two experts to weigh in on the issue. But no: it’s just Frank Grillo’s space general Ryle, in an abandoned warehouse meant to be some kind of spaceport. You might think that high officials from Earth, and the other two worlds mentioned in the opening scrawl but quickly forgotten, would want to convene to discuss whether they should nuke the newfound alien species. It’s an important question: should the encounter be negative for the humans, and it sure did look that way, well, the human race might just want to send a quantum bomb to the alien homeworld and perform a little preemptive genocide just to be sure. Juda (Eva De Dominici) calls in a report and is asked the all-important question: “was the encounter positive or negative for both sides?” It’s humanity’s first contact with an alien species, depicted here with all the awe and wonder of a teen slasher movie. Out on an uninhabited deep space mining planet, a couple of lovebirds get more than they bargained for when they’re ambushed by… something. They do have a nifty robot bartender, though. An alliance has been formed, between who or what we don’t know.ĭown on Earth, however, not much has changed in the past 500 years: they’re still driving pickup trucks and motorcycles and listening to early 2000s techno, and Bruce Willis is still packing away shots at the country-western saloon in-between barroom brawls. Ultimately, though, this is one Sin even Pope Francis would struggle to pardon.An opening text scrawl gets Cosmic Sin up to speed: It’s the year 2524, and humanity has now mastered light-years traversing space travel and colonized a couple outer space planets. anyone not answering to Bruce and/or Frank), particularly Once Upon a Time’s Adelaide Kane. There’s also strong performances from some of the key players (i.e. On the plus side, a smattering of horror elements liven things up, there’s some impressive digital effects work (one space-based action sequence, in particular, is indistinguishable from bigger budget Hollywood fare), and the world-building efforts are admirable. The presence of Willis and Grillo no doubt helped get the film made and will increase its desirability in a crowded market, but once Cosmic Sin makes first contact with its audience, fans of either are likely to be just as hostile as those acid-spitting aliens. The same can largely be said of Grillo – while his performance is consistent with previous roles, there’s precious little for him to do either. A blessing for anybody who ever spent any time defending Hudson Hawk and is now watching through gritted teeth, but a curse for any narrative coherence. (This is a far cry from Bruce in Die Hard, rather Bruce refusing to try harder.) Equally baffling is his minimal screen time – though Willis’s “Blood General” James Ford is projected as one of the film’s chief protagonists, he’s barely actually in it. When he does muster the strength, line deliveries are depressingly fractured and flat, and can surely only have been recorded in a single take. Bruce Willis delivers a frankly shameful performance here, sleepwalking his way through his scenes, refusing to emote to the point where it’s sometimes hard not to question whether he actually knew the cameras were rolling. It’s unfortunate then that the biggest burden on the production’s finances is also the final product’s biggest handicap – its near-redundant star duo. For reasons the film struggles to ever fully articulate, the only two people equipped to deal with this new menace are Frank Grillo and Bruce Willis, and so the action heroes are dispatched alongside a squadron of assorted military minds 13368 light-years across the galaxy… to some dreary-looking woods up the road.Ĭosmic Sin is an ambitious movie, always commendably stretching its clearly minuscule budget to breaking point. Regrettably, considering the wait, these alien lifeforms aren’t particularly interested in being our friends, and would rather turn us into twitchy, acid-spitting space zombies instead. A mere 482 years after colonising space (according to a confusing pre-credits info-dump), humanity is about to make first contact.
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