2075: Confrontación Genética

Granted, it may be a cheapie pilot, with cheesy special effects and unknown actors, but this movie was fun to watch. Don't go into it expecting another Space Odyssey, but it's a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours if you have time to kill.

A pilot for a sci-fi TV show. The show takes place in an apocalyptic future where there was a drug created that could grant eternal youth. Everyone took the drug, and things went fine... for a while. Eventually the majority of the population mutated into violent primitive beasts. Those who did not suffer the ill-effects of the drug, as well as those who refused to take it, lived in isolated cities around the world, such as Island City, which featured Star Trek-esquire shields.

Every citizen bore a crystal implant below their neck. This implant would glow a specific color. One could only mate with others who are of the same color to prevent mutated offspring. It was very interesting, the clothes were all designed around the crystal, and the nightclubs were divided into color-specific sections. "Hey baby, I see that you too have a blue crystal..."

If memory serves, the show focused around the leadership of the city, and more so on the leadership of of the police force of Island City.

It was a very cliché cast:

You had the leader guy The 2nd in command An adolescent male A mutant who was sane on the police force, who could never mate and who was also persecuted A tough guy and a few hot chicks

The teenage boy was the son of the hot chick, who was married to a very old man, who is old because he refused the treatment.

All in all, there was, and IMO still is, a lot of potential for the story.

I really wanted to see this thin become a series when I saw the pilot. A lot of people tanked it, as you can see, but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been great. I've seen many a bad pilot that spawned long lived and enjoyable shows. The plot was great. Attempts to produce a "fountain of youth" medication succeed, but trigger a recessive gene present in a large amount of the population which causes them to sort of devolve to the stage of Cro-Magnon man. I really enjoyed the premise and some of the characters. Some of the details were hard to swallow, like the level of tech available to folks in the cities, but none of that is too terrible. I really enjoyed it. I'm a sci-fi fanatic and there are some things that just appeal to me as far as story elements and plots go. I'm willing to overlook some of the less than mediocre acting on the part of certain characters and lower production values if it has a story line that I can really get into.

If you keep in mind that it's meant to be a series for a pilot and not expect feature film quality acting and cinematography, and are a fan of real sci-fi, you will definitely get into this.

After all these years, I still remember this pilot as having a HUGE amount of potential. The characters were pretty solid and the premise was really interesting. I could totally see this becoming a series on the Sci Fi Channel. Granted, it had some minor problems. And I'm sure it didn't test well back in the mid 90's (back when the Sci Fi world had to rely on regular network TV executives, which have proved time and time again that they have absolutely no concept of what makes good science fiction).

If any of you Sci Fi Channel execs are browsing IMDb, why don't you buy the rights to this one and make a series out of it? I'd sure watch it.

Although it was a low budget film, it had a great concept and reminded me of some oldies but goodies that I re-watch occasionally (Genesis II, Planet Earth, Damnation Alley, Ultimate Warrior etc). The casting was pretty good and there was some real chemistry between the actors. Special effects are about what you expect from the low budget but did not distract from the film. The folks that really disliked it probably are not big fans of the low budget "B" sci-fi type films and may like the big budget blockbuster flicks at the theater that have the backing for better scripts and effects. I am glad that I had the chance to tape it from a TV broadcast. Hopefully, it was not edited too much. I am having a friend dub it on to a DVD for me so it will keep it's quality in my library and not deteriorate. Any "B" sci-fi fans out there will enjoy watching this. I would have really liked to see it released as a series, just to see where the writers wanted to go with the basic idea.