Starring: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres and Alan Tudyk
Director: Joss Whedon
Rated: M
Though very popular, Star Trek is still an acquired taste.
The short-running series on US television, Firefly, was also an acquired taste – too late to save it but strong enough to get the green light for a big movie.
Serenity is a spaceship in a universe five centuries hence where human behaviour, despite the technology, is not too much different from our own.
There are the overtones of Star Trek with an MTV style which should prove engaging for younger fans.
However, the complicated plotline is not served so well by the television visual style nor the granite-jawed (on wooden performers) and deadpan TV soap opera acting style.
British Chiwetel Ejiofor stands out, acting wise, as the villain.
Loud and brash, violent and flashy – reassuring many of us that it is probably better living now than in this future.
