Serenity (2005)
This movie, since its release, has been in the select few movies that are my favourites. When I say "select few" I do in fact mean 'one of the forty gazzillion movies that I liked in general'. Now that that's cleared up, lets talk space westerns. Yes, 'Serenity' is in fact a space western. We never saw it coming. But despite it's absurd genre, it explains the reason why the two have combined. Earth became over-populated, needed to find new planets to colonize, blah blah, some people didn't like the government so they launched a war, etc etc. That's the basic back story. The actual plot of the movie is that a girl named River Tam that has been experimented on by this evil government called the "Alliance". She is immediately rescued by her brother Simon who has given up his lifes dream of being a doctor to save her. He then takes his place upon the Firefly class vessel 'Serenity' which is manned by the meanest bunch his doctors you can find. No, I'm kidding. They are a crew of rebels/smugglers determined make ends meet. But River holds a dark secret which was why the government was all to willing to experiment on her and have now sent an assassin on her trail causing havoc for the rest of the crew as well. That's the gist of it. If it hasn't caught your attention then I'd still recommend watching it just so I feel I've accomplished something here today. Not exactly an all star cast but there will be a few familiar faces. e.g. Mr. Universe (Yes, that's his name) is Charlie Epps from 'Numb3rs'. Wash is Steve the Pirate from 'Dodgeball'. That's just a few examples.
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8.1/10
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