There are two characters that I liked in this movie, the captain of the ship (played by Nathan Fillion) and the young girl named River (played by Summer Glau). I've seen Fillion on tv shows like Castle, but didn't think I would see him in a sci-fi action film. His character is Mal and his personality is staying focused. He only cares for him self, the ship and maybe the people on his crew (which is not a lot of people). He is also a man that is focused on getting a job done, even if its a job that is against the law, as long as it comes with pay, Mal will take the job. Through out the movie there are parts where you can see that he does care for the people on his team, but he makes sure that he still shows authority to the crew to remind them of who the leader is on the ship. Mal also comes across as both a friendly and funny person but also a person that remembers to stay focused on the job. He also becomes interested in River after he sees her go biserk (almost like she changed her personality) and took out everyone in the club. Now he becomes interested in knowing why River was able to do that and why a special forces is after her (and try to kill her). From that point he becomes the hero character in the story, the one that won't let the secret service continue to kill good innocent people just for getting River.
The character River was a hard character to figure out at first. What was hard to read from her is that she showed little facial emotion other than fear and anger. She went from being innocent to a dangerous weapon, a killing machine (she isn't a robot). Most times in the movie she was very quiet and her face seemed to stay on one facial expression. River is a special girl with incredible powers, she is a telepath, who can read people's thoughts and she is skilled in combat. She also knows a secret that wasn't meant for her (or anyone) to find out. We are introduced to her when we see her being forced with experiments on her, a lot of the experiments were focused on her brain (because she is a telepath). River is also a dangerous weapon, she is skilled to fight and kill (if something triggers her to. Like hidden message that is broadcast on tv). The big secret that she knows is that the people that were experimenting on her, know the real reason why a planet called Maranda and why there aren't any people living on it (compared to the other planets).
Besides those characters, I thought it was interesting to finding out what the special forces were trying to keep hidden and the reason for all those experiments on not only River but other people as well. The special forces were doing experiments on people to control them, to make them behave and stop fighting (control their actions). And unfortunatly they succeeded, and the experimet turns against them. The people on Meranda are either dead or have become cannibals. So the secret service has made sure that no information about this planet and their failures gets out. The crew finds out that they have never heard of this planet and it's not in their computers. The reason why River knows of this planet is because she has memories of other people inside her brain, she has other knowlegde that is not hers. Also while being experimetented on, she was reading the scientist mind, but keeping silent to make them think she's not aware of their past failure. It seems that man is always trying to control and contain something (or in this case people) and they know that it's out of their control. And soon it will come back to haunt them or kill them.
I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy this movie, because I haven't seen many sci-fi movies or tv shows. Plus, when people start talking very scientific I just get lost in what they are talking about (science isn't my best subject). But I like the movies story, of these people on ship going off to help this girl escape from the special forces and find out what they are hiding. It's always interesting to me to see what writers and film makers do with the idea of people wanting to control something and play the role of God. Which always ends up a being a big mistake and proves that people should mess with things, and they should leave thing were they are. Also I thought it was interesting that the experiments were to make people behave (no fighting), but you can't have a world without some kind of violence. If everything just stayed peaceful and quiet then that would be a boring world. I'm for world peace and everything, but I don't believe in forcing people to do something that they don't want to do. Also forcing experiments on people, especially young people like River, is very cruel. I thought the action scenes were good, and that the film didn't go over the top with special effects, just because it is a sci-fi film. Sometimes a film like this will get to carried away with the 3D special effects, that it takes away from the main focus of the story and the characters. This film had the right balance of special effects and live action scenes.
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