Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

UofSciFi I have always like two genres of movies better than all other genres (Historical Fiction/Drama & Sci Fi adventures). So it come to reason that I'd was interested in this one from the first time that I saw the previews.Then I seen it and discovered that this was more of a concept film than anything. ......And to be frank with you the concept doesn't sell! ! ! The movie takes place in a type of Neo-Futuristic landscape based on the 1930's. I though the story was actually good. and the acting was actually good. The musical score was actually good. but the fantasy- ish pulp fictionized comic book look of the film actual made it hard to watch.(at least it did for me) This film is worth watch one time ....it not going to become an instant sci-fi classic with you. Nor will this film generate enough interest that you'd want to see a sequel(trust me, If they make a sequel I will not bother to see it)This film will never rival/compete with other sci-fi films like the Star Wars, Alien(s), Starship Troopers, Matrix,Star Trek and other franchises seem to produce every time out.I'm giving it 4 out of 10 stars (And I'm only going that high with it because the acting & musical score are good)

Steve Pulaski "Sky Captain" Joe Sullivan (Jude Law) is a free-lance fighter pilot who works to protect New York City. When a series of heavily armed robots begin to attack the city, Joe winds up working with Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), a newspaperwoman who obsessively searches for the next best thing. The robots attack Lower Manhattan by flying through the skies before making strong landings on the ground below, smashing through the streets and destroying everything in sight. The robots are a product of Dr. Totenkopf (Laurence Oliver), a World War I scientist who has been working towards the ultimate goal - the fabled idea of world domination. His robot henchman are looking to take every civilian out who doesn't comply with his plans; Sky Captain is assisted by Franky (Angelina Jolie), a sexy fighter pilot who looks to assist him in tough predicaments as well as Dex Dearborn (Giovanni Ribisi), the head of research and development for Sky Captain's many planes.Such is the wacky premise of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which would've made for a fantastic pulp novel about fifty or sixty years ago. This is one of the quirkiest but most charming films to released in the 2000's, as it's the kind of film that needed to catch lightning in a bottle several times to even be made. However, thanks to writer/director Kerry Conran's persistent drive to shop the film around, finally coming in contact with producer Jon Avnet and then the production company Aurelio De Laurentiis to finance it, Sky Captain evolved into a $70 million studio gamble that was, to be fair, lucky to see the light of day.This is the kind of film that seems destined for critical and financial disaster (and only the latter became slightly true). Sky Captain is one big homage to the action serials of yesteryear, being shot with monochromatic sepia filters to replicate the feel of a grainy, pulpy adventure being shown through a shoddy film projector. It was also the first major film to be shot almost entirely on a digital backlot, which has actors acting before greenscreen sets (now a pitifully common practice), with Sin City following a year later. Sky Captain is not a known commodity either, not stemming from any line of comics (although it could've fooled me by its look and story) nor any preexisting media property. With that, this film was a gigantic leap of faith that turned out modestly well.To begin with, I absolutely love the look of the film. The monochromatic filters, the blatantly artificial backgrounds, and the action serial-feel in the pacing and suspense all pay a cheerful homage to a genre we don't see anymore. I'd shell out money for a film like Sky Captain much faster than a contemporary action property, where scenes don't even last three seconds and camera angles muddle the action to make the chaos indistinguishable. This is a film with a beautiful look, assuming the looks of a city-based 1920's film like Metropolis, the perilous quick-cuts of a 1930's action films like King Kong, and a gritty 1940's film noir like The Maltese Falcon throughout its one-hundred and six minute runtime.Law and Paltrow also drum up likable chemistry throughout the film; they assume their roles nicely, with Law probably being the only actor who should play a fighter pilot by the name of "Sky Captain" and Paltrow really nailing the news-obsessed reporter taken along for a ride by the coattails of a masked crusader of the sky. With the visual feast and the enjoyable banter between the leads taking place, it's hard to initially see Sky Captain's core issue. To be fair, I was gearing up to write a positive review up until I realized something gravely troubling.For a film decorated with classic special effects and a nostalgic look, despite using new technology, the story here is stunningly simple and unengaging. Some may claim that it's adhering to the story of the simplistic page-turners from decades gone past, but in the modern age, there should be at least a bit more meat and substance to the story. And if not, a basic plot line like the one used here could work as a satire of the genre. Yet, through all its silliness and its routine plot, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is serious in its story and that's a frustrating thing when the story is lacking as it is here.At the end of the day, though, it's hard to clamp down on Sky Captain too much. It does something that's totally brave and foreign to contemporary cinema; the fact that this film got past the talking stages is an unprecedented achievement for present-day Hollywood and Conran himself, who wasn't working off any nepotism whilst pursuing his dream to get this film made (he shot a cheap short film in his living room to shop to producers). If you can forgive a fairly weak story and embrace the acting and the visuals, there's no good reason to skip Sky Captain - there's your recommendation within a kinda/sorta nudge in the other direction.Starring: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, and Laurence Oliver.

robinski34 The opening credits of Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow promise exactly what the film delivers, a ripping yarn in the mold of Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers, with all the suspension of disbelief that those matinée serials required of the viewer. The PG rating is the tell-tale that you should not expect plotting of Nolanian complexity, this is a kids' film, and if you treat it like that, it's good fun. There is the odd gaping plot hole, but there are also some nice touches, like the appearance of Laurence Olivier and a certain recurring camera device for example, which help counteract the patchiness of the jeopardy. If you can accept occasional failings such as the yawning chasm in the lack of resolution of the research subject scene, this can be an enjoyable romp with a watchable cast.

tbahri-380-572824 Simply awful, what has started as a very promising movie with some nice new sic-fi ideas ended up as one of those Cheeseburger/Cowboy movies, full of clichés and non-logical events, dialog (oh specially that one, it simply can't get worse) and even story, that can't be considered Sci-Fi, it is a cheeseburger rubbish.The super cowboy who is super self confident and super brave and super "in control" who is also supposed to be super funny is - again - saving the world, of course while saving his own girl who is also super confident, super smart, super funny, and she is fighting entire armies without even breaking her high heals shoes !!! amazing ... keep on that Hollywood ... another 1 out of 10 movie, just because zero is not available.