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Cast/acting rating: good actors, good performance(10)

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Reflexion rating: does the movie stimulate any provocative though(10)

Production rating: how well produced is the film, good FX(10)

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dimanche 10 avril 2011

#202: Cargo, Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir

Genre: Sci-Fi/Science-Fiction


Annee/Year: 2009


Format: DVD


Cargo. A first full length feature Swiss movie from directors Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter. The resuts are mixed but there are multiple good points even if the overall is disappointing. When i bought this movie I thought it was an anime movie due to the cover of the DVD. But it is a real actor movie; which was a first good surprise. The movie is set in the future when human kind's life on the earth become so miserable that they all move into gigantic space stations around the earth. The scenes showing these sapce stations are definitely well done visually and are amongst my preferate scenes from the movie. This made it bode well from the start. The period shown is when the earth is looking for new worlds to colonize. This is made very difficult since moving from world to world takes years at a time even a close to light speed travel. This is nice because this is realistic; however it is not since the script does not account that time flows differently from static people when traveling at speed of light.


The story is about a doctor lady joining a cargo ship flying to the closest waypoint station (station 42) which is supposed to be the point from where reasearch ship fly out from. On route all staff are put in cryo sleep but one to oversee operations. So when our lady doctor shift comes up about 3/4 of the way to the station she starts seeing strange things a believes somebody else is awake on board. She wakes up othe membersof the crew and trouble starts coming down. They soon find out that their cargo is a large number of humans in cryo sleep and the story opens up to show us that what most people think is family moving to perfect nice new planets is actually much darker. Humans have not successfully colonized any other planets and their families moved on to these new dreamlike planets are actually in a virtual planet while they are all really in cryo sleep. Dark and scary. Good premise but the action around it is not so interesting and that is the week part of the movie. How does it end...certainly not in a memorable way. So good beginning interesting premise but week story in the end. Only for real sci-fi fans who iwll enjoy the few good bits from that movie.


Cargo. Premier film des réalisateurs Suisse Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter. Ce film a du bon mais n`est pas très réussi dans son ensemble. Aucun acteur connu ne joue dans ce film. Le film se situe dans le futur ou la terre est si polluée que toute la population est déplacée dans des stations spatiales gigantesques (qui forment les scènes les mieux réussies du film). La vie dans ces stations n`est pas vraiment géniale et tous les humains ne rêvent qu`a une chose: de rejoindre les premiers chanceux à se relocaliser sur de nouvelles planètes vierge.


Notre héroine s`inscrit sur un vaisseau cargo en direction de la station 42 qui est un port de départ ou tous les vaisseaux de recherche de planètes à coloniser font leur départs. Le but est de rejoindre la famille de sa soeur qui est déja relocaliser sur Rhéa après avoir gagné son passage. La mission est d`une durée de 4 ans où pendant la plupart du temps l`équipage est en sommeil cryogénique sauf un membre qui s`occupe des opérations. L`atmosphère du vaisseau nous rapelle beaucoup le feeling du vaisseau de l`Alien original: noir, industriel et impersonnel et claustrophobique et isolée.


Après le trois quart du voyage notre docteur se prend a voir des choses étranges à bord du vaisseau. Elle décide donc de reveiller ses collègues de voyage et d`enquêter sur la situation. Rapidement ils découvrent une sombre vérité. Le cargo est en fait des humains en sommeil cryogéniques et connectés a un serveur qui les laisse évoluer dans un environnement artificiel qui simule les colonies promises.


De la l`action du film est étrange et déconnecté même si l`histoire est intéressante. Cela nous laisse l`impression que plusieurs parties ont été coupées vers la fin. Un film intéressant pour les grands amateurs de sci-fi; mais pas pour tous.


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Link: http://www.cargoderfilm.ch/


Rating perso: 6.5/10

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