Dominion

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!

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

Have you ever found yourself talking to someone who believes Earth is flat, only Rednecks are kidnapped by aliens, women are from Venus or Biden writes his own speeches? None are true and thinking Dominion: The Last Star Warrior, as it's also called, is worth watching is also untrue. Let me describe this two star movie for folks who have a high tolerance for self aggravation.

The acting is worse than a first grade school play. At least children can be funny or accidentally inventive and unpredictable. The adults in this video are terribly bad with no excuse. To pretend otherwise is like saying The Kardashians are normal people. As for the plot there isn't any. It's more like shifting sand being a nuisance as it gets inside your melting sneaker in the Sahara. The writing or script is beyond bad. I think the whole movie script was a mere brief discussion that started at a bar then was postpone for serious drinking, to be continued on the fly during the first day of filming on location. Sets and props, none. Cinematography: Taken randomly from online copy of whatever could vaguely fit together with no logical possibility of science or common sense.

In short this is not a real movie but is a waste of time. I stopped watching this after fifty minutes. That was enough punishment for a few weeks. Go watch Rambo shoot exploding arrows who is more deadly and believable than not ever being hit by endless men firing automatic weapons at him.

Well that's an hour and 23 mi it's I'll never get back. Slow, action less and, well, b grade at best.

OK, the special effects were laugh-inducing and sometimes the acting was overboard, but I have seen many movies much worse. The story was interesting. The score was pretty good though it felt like the editor, director, and music weren't always on the same page. The acting was fine, though I feel like some of the characters may not have been cast well. I especially didn't like Jaelen, although the actor was fine. I would have liked a little more Jeff Bridges / Starman.

I didn't like the ending - cost the move a star or two in my rating. I did make it all the way to the end though.

All the 1 and 2 star reviews aren't making "sense" so I wanted to put my 2 "cents" in.