Wing Commander . Tucson Weekly . 03-29-99

Wing Commander

DIRECTED BY: Chris Roberts

REVIEWED: 03-29-99

In a tremendous waste of talent, Tchéky Karyo, David Suchet and David Warner, who all have the good fortune to have been born in countries where spending millions on a movie adapted from a video game would be considered a bit gauche, are tossed into outer space for this multi-million dollar movie that's based on a video game. Like a video game, there're lots of explosions, you don't have any interest in the characters, and dialogue is not exactly the most important element. Unfortunately, even as a shoot-'em-up Wing Commander fails, as the outer space scenes are poorly lit, and it's always difficult to tell who's shooting at who. The scary space aliens are also rather lame, looking like burly guys with immobile, rubber, kitten faces. I guess the big draw for Wing Commander was supposed to be teen heartthrob Freddie Prinze Jr., who's claim to fame is that he's a bit cuter than his father and doesn't have an insatiable appetite for cocaine. There's also a surprisingly decent (i.e. not horrifyingly bad) performance by Matthew Lillard, who was annoying in Scream, Scream 2, She's All That and, I'm guessing, in person. But Wing Commander's biggest sin is that it's dull. If the future is going to be this boring, I'm canceling my membership at the Cryogenic Institute of Greater Metropolitan Tucson.

--DiGiovanna

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