Theo Robertson Some people have criticised CRIMSON FORCE of ripping off the plot of STARGATE but this is misleading . Let's be honest here and ask did anyone watching this shout out " Hey this reminds me of that movie with competent actors , a big budget and big action sequences " ? The film starts with the first manned landing on Mars in 2037 . In other words the greatest achievement in human history has come about and for some reason everyone reacts as though they're just spending another day arriving at a mundane day at work . The whole apathetic banality of the characters continues throughout the movie One irritating thing for the audience is that it's painfully obvious that the budget only stretches to a couple of small sets . In fact it could be the exact same set with the set designer tinkling with things to make it look it another set . Director David Flores doesn't help matters by shooting nearly every shot in medium close up which means CRIMSON FORCE ends up being a dire boring movie that doesn't even aspire to be a clichéd so bad it's almost good type of movie

TheLittleSongbird I have disliked the SyFy original movies more than I have liked them, though there were a few I was surprised by. Crimson Force is not their worst or quite bad enough one of their bottom-of-the-barrel movies, but it is still really bad. The special effects even for SyFy are really cartoony, while the rest of the production values including the most fake-looking and inauthentic ship interior ever and rather choppy editing don't fare much better. The script is awful, very hackneyed and lacking any sort of point, while the story is highly derivative(of Stargate mainly), wanders about all over the place and never seems to find a consistent tone and the characters are clichéd and annoying. Unlike the bottom-of-the-barrel SyFy movies, Crimson Farce(excuse me, Crimson Force) does have a redeeming quality, which is the performance of David Chokachi. He's not too camp and he didn't seem to take things too seriously. Which is more than I can say for Thomas C.Howell, whose performance, a very uneasy mix of campiness and phoning in and both at extreme levels at times, is the complete opposite. All in all, a terrible movie, I've seen worse but that is little consolation. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Rabh17 I mean, this one is Bad. The kind of Bad that belongs in a Film-making Textbook-- under Example # 3aAT the same time, It's a Bad that can be watched if only so you can tear it apart. You'll be uttering phrases such as:Oh Please! You've got to be kidding! RIP OFF!!! Huh. .Right! Die Already!. . .make up more of your own.I won't even BOTHER with Spoilers, because they actually are WORKING with a "Plot". It makes ABSOLUTELY no sense, and it's AWFULLY complex and involved with Preistesses, secretive world governments, Greedy Corporations, warriors, ancient Technology neo-buddhist monks with white eyes, and the old warrior from Stargate, no less!. . .but IT IS A PLOT! That's Star # 1The Ancient Martian Sets and props are actually pretty thorough-- even if they don't make sense either-- but anyways, they did make very good use of what was probably a miserly FX budget. That's Star # 2The Black Character didn't Die in the first ten minutes saving another crewmember. That one's close to my heart. They broke a Sci-Fi Film-making Tradition! That's Star # 3They didn't step out onto the Martian Surface with only Respirators. That's Star # 4 for minimal scientific realism. And all female characters wear dark, tight and utterly utilitarian wife-beater style marine undershirts. As a Guy, I give them a Star # 5 for accurately targeting their audience. And on a Script level, the Final Star # 6 for NOT hearing that tired Line: "We have been watching you for over a 1000 years". (What can I say-- that line always ticked me off in Sci-Fi)Yet all the same-- Watchable, with derision a la Mystery Science Theatre. This Movie IS a Candidate for that venerated venue!Oh. . .and your girlfriend can yap all the way thru this trainwreck without any diminution in collateral enjoyment. 'Cause you can rest assured that the Girlfriend will NOT be paying any attention to what's on the screen. And this is one time that even as a Guy, I cannot naysay her.Gosh-- I hope those actors got PAID?!?!?

David Whelan This movie is dodgy, plain and simple. In some sequence you can easily tell that the characters are animated in-particularly the rock climbing shots. It wasn't even good animation. In another shot, the camera is all over the place. The camera man must has being shaking like mad. This is not acceptable in a modern day sci-fi flick but yet this movie was allowed to do it. Apart from that, the storyline is weak also. It all seemed like an episode of Stargate. The alien intrusion on Earths History, the staf like weapons and the dodgy looking crests here and their just gave the film a look of stargate rip-off which is just not on. Fair enough, originality is hard to get these days as almost all ideas have been done at some stage but to copy big elements so glaringly is the sign that the producers were half asleep when they were doing this picture. The acting was OK however but again not the best. Overall this film is a poor sci-fi flick so check out other sci-fi movies if you want to be entertained.