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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Missed Opportunity,
This review is from: Dante 01 [DVD] [2008] (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.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Visually and audibly beautiful,
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This review is from: Dante 01 [DVD] [2008] (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.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Alien 3 Versus The Green Mile,
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This review is from: Dante 01 [DVD] [2008] (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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