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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Dante 01 is not the film to watch if you're after block-busting action and twisty plotting; however, if you're after an original, visually and audibly stunning Sci-Fi, you've come to the right place. In the vain of other recent Sci-Fi's, such as Eden Log, Sunshine and Chrysalis, Dante 01 is set in deep-space, and focuses on a group of 8 criminals in a spaceship, being illegally tested on by a small party of egotistical scientists.
Marc Caro, director -in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Jeunet- of Delicatessen and City Of Lost Children, in his first solo feature manages to accommodate more than enough in the way of dizzying special effects and stunningly detailed set-pieces. However, as Dante 01 flies ahead with all its beautifully intriguing images, you begin to loose hope of any defining plotlines.
...Not that this is a bad thing, of course. Furthermore, Dante 01's visual splendour is developed with Caro's unusually colourful lighting techniques and a fantastic make-up effects team- recalling one utterly horrific, superiorly graphic death scene (sizzling skin has never looked so realistic).
The film becomes increasingly more satisfying during the final half hour. Not meaning to spoil things for you, but there's a Sunshine-style twist that occurs, which is sure to exhilarate you and help you agree that Dante 01 is one of the finest and most original Sci-Fi's in ages. One to quietly recommended.
Marc Caro, director -in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Jeunet- of Delicatessen and City Of Lost Children, in his first solo feature manages to accommodate more than enough in the way of dizzying special effects and stunningly detailed set-pieces. However, as Dante 01 flies ahead with all its beautifully intriguing images, you begin to loose hope of any defining plotlines.
...Not that this is a bad thing, of course. Furthermore, Dante 01's visual splendour is developed with Caro's unusually colourful lighting techniques and a fantastic make-up effects team- recalling one utterly horrific, superiorly graphic death scene (sizzling skin has never looked so realistic).
The film becomes increasingly more satisfying during the final half hour. Not meaning to spoil things for you, but there's a Sunshine-style twist that occurs, which is sure to exhilarate you and help you agree that Dante 01 is one of the finest and most original Sci-Fi's in ages. One to quietly recommended.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Lambert Wilson is as excellent in this intriguing film as his character is mysterious. However, the film really demanded more time than it was given to explore Wilson's potential origins, the tension between the other prisoner's natural impulses and their growing faith in their new found saviour, and ultimately the predicament they face as their doom beckons.
The finalé was a bit of a cop out in my view, but it doesn't make the film any less worth seeing. It just means it isn't great and is only 3 - not 4 - stars.
The finalé was a bit of a cop out in my view, but it doesn't make the film any less worth seeing. It just means it isn't great and is only 3 - not 4 - stars.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Visually stunning, well acted and unremittingly bleak French sci-fi that promises to be a cerebral treat like 2001 or Silent Running but that ending leaves a bad taste in the mouth. The expected enigmatic protagonist appears at an infernal prison station orbiting a volcanic planet - Dante. The intriguing guinea pig/lab rat angle of above versus below is not explored to any satisfactory degree and ambiguity in the final ten minutes mean you will either think it's genius or perhaps a cooler head will prevail and you will feel cruelly cheated by a left-field ending that is not sign-posted and instead of being revelatory, it is almost risible. A glorious mis-fire.
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Great visuals but what happened to the plot
This is a classic case of form over function. The director clearly invested all his effort into making a great looking film but forgot that you need a plot to go along with... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Rickath
Clumsy mishmash
Disappointed in this. It starts off promisingly enough, but dissolves into chaotic assemblage of scenes which, I think, the director/editor ran out of footage and ended up cobbling... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jinjapewbs
Very polished but seriously flawed
A decent but not outstanding film that treads some familiar sci-fi ground- an isolated space station, claustrophobic, its true purpose shrouded in mystery, with a cast of sinister... Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2009 by Mr. Stuart Bruce
yawn
Though visually a great looking film, and well acted too (gotta love domanique pinon) and although i love marc caro's other work.......this film bored me to death. Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2009 by James Basham
Confusing and disappointing
I got this movie because I really like the previous movies by Jeunet (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Amelie from Montmartre and others). Read more
Published on 19 July 2009 by Thomas Senderovitz
some nice visuals....
Only slightly better than eden log. There are some nice visual effects to be seen here but that's all really. Read more
Published on 29 Oct 2008 by godzilla78
Disappointing but still better than most recent sf films
I was expecting big things of this. After the almost-brilliant Sunshine and the darkly impressive Renaissance, I thought proper sf was due a, erm, renaissance in European cinema. Read more
Published on 13 Oct 2008 by Bass cadet
French salsa SF
Mah..... A "cerebral" SF movie, in french, with some classic themes: prisoners in a stellar prison, Alien 3-like, "scientific" experiments "Umbrella-style", a "mystic" hero. Read more
Published on 13 Oct 2008 by Empe
hmmmmmmm.....
I get the feeling this film will receive a mixed reaction. On the plus side there are some nice special effects. As for the film itself..... Read more
Published on 22 Sep 2008 by godzilla78
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