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2021 · sci-fi · action · adventure

Cosmic Sin

Directed by Edward Drake1h 28m2021

In the year 2524, four centuries after humans started colonizing the outer planets, retired General James Ford gets called back into service when a hostile alien fleet attacks soldiers on a remote planet. The threat against mankind soon escalates into an interstellar war as Ford and a team of elite soldiers try to stop the imminent attack before it's too late.

Our read: Cosmic Sin (2021) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.

ElsewhereIMDb2.516kRT3%Metacritic9
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • cold
  • epic-stakes
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Where the cast leads
DNA · twelve axes

How Cosmic Sin feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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What watching it is actually like.

“You want to rubberneck a legendarily bad Bruce Willis space flick.”

ends bittersweetyou’ll be fine aftera rollercoastergrips from the openattention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonight — Skip unless ironic bad-movie night beats actually good sci-fi tonight.

If Cosmic Sin is your film
Battlefield Earth (2000)
future-war incompetence played with baffling straight faces
(unless Dutch angles give you migraines)
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
space-opera grandeur collapsing under its own silliness
(if you want laughs not confusion)
Moontrap (1989)
cheap future soldiers versus aliens on a budget
(unless eighties cheese feels too charming)
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