Two fighter pilots, Lieutenant Christopher Blair (Prinze Jr) and Todd Marshall (Mathew Lillard) rendezvous with Tiger Claw commander Captain Janson Sanski (David Suchet) to undertake a near-suicidal mission to uncover the strength and plans of the Kilrathi fleet. Our army, equipped with vessels build with bubblegum, string and cardboard (apparently) and fighter craft that function like actual airborne jets in space, are in grave jeopardy when the Kilrathi fleet approaches Earth faster than the our lads can manage. Several hundred years into our future, and humanity has spread into the cosmos, only to encounter the warlike race of aliens known as the Kilrathi Empire. Then white-hot screen star Freddie Prinze Jr ( I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scooby Doo) teams up with recurring B-movie stalwart Matthew Lillard ( Scream, 13 Ghosts, Scooby Doo) and up-and-coming model-slash-actress Saffron Burrows ( Deep Blue Sea) to headline this astonishingly bad waste of everyone’s time (a film so bad, even Mark Hamill wasn’t credited for a voice cameo he provided) that proves the old adage whereby you can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear the dialogue is rancid, the visual effects are third-rate, and Roberts’ direction approaches incoherence the longer this miasma goes. Based on the director’s own video game franchise, Wing Commander is a Frankenstein’s Monster of tropes and cliches, liberally borrowing not just its junk-tech steampunk aesthetic from any number of other (better) films but wasting an A-list cast with such heinous dialogue it should be considered a crime to have even been written. Very few cinematic films I have seen venture into territory so egregiously awful, so embarrassingly bad, so unimaginably unwatchable, as that achieved by Chris Roberts’ 1999 sci-fi adventure Wing Commander. Synopsis: Blair, a fighter pilot, joins an interstellar war to fight the evil Kilrathi who are trying to destroy the universe. ![]() Principal Cast : Freddie Prinze Jr, Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows, Tcheky Karyo, David Suchet, Jurgen Prochnow, David Warner, Ginny Holder, hugh Quarshie, Ken Bones, John McGlynn, Richard Dillane, Mark Powley, David Fahm, Simon MacCorkindale, Craig Kelly.
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