Cargo 2009

I really enjoyed this gem. Subtitles and all. I wish there was a English version. But still enjoyed it.

A little slow at times. It looks good, but the story is meager. The ending was pretty much expected.

Not a bad movie, but too bad its all in German. Everything about it is clearly low budget, but the story is good and compelling.. and unfortunately oh so realistic. Rather good acting too. But when you've recently watched Passengers, then this is 2 steps down and that results in my rating of a 5,5 - 6.

I have a really hard time to rate this because I love it at much as I hate it.
When you think about this is a movie from 2009 then the graphics is Fucking good I mean really good. What I hate the most about this film is it's in German I really hate that Language the same with French and Spanish and a few others. And I got bored time, and time again the tension is there it just for to shot at the time and it just makes it harder to watch.

Not bad, I was surprised, but then it decays

Quite derivative of many other older and recent SF films and although watchable, the themes and ideas have been done to death recently so that the plot twists are predictable well before they happen. Even the design and sets feel copied from other well known SF universes (some sound effects seemed to be straight from Alien when the doors close). However, it is well acted and watchable just don't expect anything revelatory.

So yeah, this got a lot of hype in the press back when it was released here because it's basicly the only Swiss sci-fi movie... They were proud of the special effects in particular which have not aged well and I was more distracted by the balant product placement for the sponsors. Next to recycling various ideas I just couldn't get down with the badly written characters which they cemented in a scene early on which is even worse considering the slow pace.

The special effects in this movie are amazing. What makes it more amazing is that all those special effects you see in this movie are made on a budget of only 5,8 million dollars. That just shows that if you got a talented and dedicated crew behind you (as director) you don't need a big budget of tens of millions of dollars to make a movie visually stunning.

Unfortunately the story did not get as much attention as the special effects. A lot of the story is borrowed from other movies like The Matrix, Blade Runner and Sunshine. That is too bad, because outside Hollywood there are not that many movies that are in outer space and look so visually stunning.