You know when you hear a premise, and what you think of is almost exactly the film you get? It's a strange kind of satisfaction but at the same time the lack of surprise drags you down a little. So when they say this is a movie where Guy Pearce is forced by Peter Stormare to go on a rescue mission in a space jail, it's no shocker when the result is a low grade adventure where the characters talk in sound bites at each other. Evil thugs, back stabbing corporate suits, a chain smoking anti-hero, it's all stock material. That's not to say the results aren't rather pleasing in some way or another. Some of the quips are pretty fun and our hero Snow (just Snow) does the whole mean trash talking and frowning act pretty well.
