Thursasprengir There's more ham in this movie than a Lutheran Easter picnic. I can't believe that anyone went to the trouble to make this movie. Yes, I toughed it out to the end - mostly because I'm a masochist. The dialogue is stilted and juvenile. The characters are so one dimensional I expected them to disappear when they turned. The special effects are only 'meh' for 1999, but are laughable compared to now. I saw another reviewer say that s/he preferred this (at times) to SW Episode 1. That's another ham-fest, but at least it has LIGHTSABERS. The ships in this looked amateur. I mean, come on, Rapiers (a light, lithe weapon IRL) were these chunky, pig-nosed things that looked like A-10 Warthogs... in space. No, it just doesn't feel consistent, or cool, or watchable ever again.

Ed Heath There is a little quip in Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide about a job - "The hours are good but most of the actual minutes are lousy" (paraphrasing).Wing Commander has a phenomenal cast, but that is about all. Even in saying that, all of the big name performers in this movie have been in at least one (other) stinker in their career I believe. The script is at about an eight grade level, the year is 26 something and yet we are still using torpedoes (of the submarine type), missiles and some kind of guns. I swear they throw in a submarine hiding on the ocean floor and getting depth charged type scene just to remind us what else Jurgen Prochnow is known for (and to give him a chance to look at the ceiling again).Look, if you let the movie wash over you it *is* mildly entertaining, even as it throws cliché after movie cliché at you. Don't think too hard about the script, don't worry if a scene is boring or painful because the movie moves briskly along.

david-sarkies It seems that there are a lot of people out there that never really liked this movie, but as far as I am concerned it wasn't all that bad. Granted it was based on a computer game in which Mark Hamil, among others, played starring roles, those obviously when the film came out minus Mark Hamil people were incredibly disappointed. Personally, which I had played the game and enjoyed it, I did not expect it to be identical to the game, and also noting that the creator of the Wing Commander franchise directed it, I at least knew that it was going to have the original creative juices flowing into it.Since Wing Commander is a space flight simulator where you fly space fighters around and shoot up Kilrathi, that is in effect was I was going to expect from this film as well, namely lots of dog fights between Kilrathi and Humans. Also the main characters from the game (and the only ones that I can remember were Paladin and Christopher Blair, though I suspect that there were a lot of others as well which I recognised from the game).The thing that I really appreciated about the film was that a lot of the craft had a very World War II feeling to them, especially the raptors, that basically looked like World War II fighter planes (without the propeller because propellers, and in fact jet engines, don't work in space). Unfortunately you don't see much of the Kilrathi, and when you do they are only briefly shown before they are gunned down, however what you do see are their ships. I guess this is because we are simply following the main characters, who are all humans, around and only being able to see what that see.As I said I liked this film, not only because it was science-fiction and had a fair share of dog fights, but also because of the way they created the setting. I also remember seeing this movie with a friend of my who was also a big fan of the games (though I only ever played one of them).

stekare Ten years after the Wing Commander released, it is still the best sci-fi movie ever made!It would have been fun with a renewal of this film for the story is great and I think it would be a hit movie.I like everything in this film from the actors to the effects and story. Given when the film was made, it is clearly the best film I've seen in the last 10 years! i would like to see more films and series like Wing Commander and Space above and beyond to come in the future! I hope that the film industry is listening to us sci-fi enthusiasts! But no more Steven Spielberg series because he destroys everything he does.