Reviews

This honestly may be my favorite war movie of all time simply because it manages to be both a highly gripping take on war but also very entertaining. You don't have to endure the extremely harsh and frankly dull monotony of death that actually makes up most of war yet you are still shown realistic fates of those thrust into a conflict in a beautifully realized world. Venus Wars excels in showing the individual in war, not just at their most futile but at their most powerful. The climax of the movie had me almost breathless and the ending made was one of the most respectful I've seen of it's characters. I hate a story that destroys it's characters at the end, real life is grim enough to waste your time watching entertainment that aims to depress.
But speaking of the futility of war and this movies rejection of such a principle here is a quote from one of my favorite authors and books

“I quite understand how we are driven to lead statistical lives, but I repeat that it is the duty of art to make us imagine the particular; to make us understand that the rights of one human being are not a fraction of the rights of more than one, and at the same time that in any situation of collective evil, the suffering is felt by no more than one person; only one feels the bitter agony of injustice, only one dies”
― Jacques Barzun, The Use and Abuse of Art

Venus Wars embodies this quote in the best way possible and I can't recommend it enough. And don't even get me started on the top notch world-building, I can't think of a better example of a writer practicing show don't tell. You could learn how to write amazing worlds just from watching this film!