Final Encounter
Title: Final Encounter (Also known as: For the Cause)
Director: David Douglas, Tim Douglas
Writer: David Douglas, Christopher Salazar
Starring: Dean Cain, Justin Whalin, Jodi Bianca Wise
Year released: 2000
Their synopsis: “Two human colonies on a distant planet are locked in a brutal hundred-year war until a group of brave soldiers decides it’s time to end the fighting.”
My synopsis: Six people from one town cross some mountains to deliver some metallic object to some other town in the hope destroying it or something and ending some war.
Quick review: It was like a longer, more violent, and less cohesive version of a Dora the Explorer episode.
Biggest suspension of disbelief: The communication system of touching, or not touching, seemingly any point on the side of one’s head. Also, that the one-liners were supposed to be funny.
Pros: The special effects were well done. Nonsensical and pointless, but well done.
Cons: You know what always helps a film? Zero explanation of anything that’s happening.
Biggest movie cliché: Name any war movie cliché and this film has it.
Say a nice thing: I didn’t die watching it.
Say a mean thing: I want Dean Cain to fall off a horse and break his neck.
Unnecessary spoiler: Sadly, there’s a happy ending.
Most relatable current event: The unrelenting and unwinnable War on Terror.
Final review: I don’t want to call it interesting and engaging, those terms are too strong, but it was almost both of those. If you can make it past the first 20 minutes, it becomes a semi-watchable film.
Ranking:
2 bees