![]() Pic’s appeal lies in other areas, from its mimicking of period, stately Americana in the dialogue (Mal: “No more runnin’ I aim to misbehave” Jayne: “She is starting to damage my calm”) to the plot itself. Thereafter, most of the action is confined to futuristic interiors - handled OK but, excepting a late-on mano a mano by River, with no special atmosphere. pull off a payroll robbery on an outer planet and are disturbed by Reavers. Main action sequence, realized like a space-age stagecoach-and-Injuns chase, comes early on, as Mal & Co. Also on board are his deputy, Zoe ( Gina Torres), similarly dressed and holstered like a cowboy Zoe’s husband, Wash (Alan Tudyk), the craft’s ace pilot gruff gunslinger Jayne (Adam Baldwin, in a good impression of Warren Oates) and corn-fed farm girl Kaylee (Jewel Staite), the ship’s mechanic. Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds (Nathan Fillion, channeling a combo of Harrison Ford and the late Eric Fleming from “Rawhide”), who heads the crew of Firefly-class spaceship Serenity, a rusty-bucket transport vessel. Tone lightens as the main story and cast show up. ![]() In an interesting idea that largely lies undeveloped - and has some contempo relevance in a globalized world - the Independents hate the Alliance because the latter are “in their homes, in their heads, (and) tell them what to think.” The Alliance is also inside one particular head - that of River Tam (Summer Glau), a 17-year-old telepath whose brother, Simon (Sean Maher), rescues her from Alliance boffins and security high-up the Operative (Ejiofor) in a pre-credits sequence that’s one of the best in the picture. ![]() We’re 500 years in the future, following a war in a newly colonized solar system that was won by a coalition called the Alliance the losers, the Independents, roam the outer planets like frontier cowboys, along with the Reavers, thugs who eat their enemies live. Major addition to the cast is Brit thesp Chiwetel Ejiofor (“Amistad,” “Dirty Pretty Things” and upcoming “Kinky Boots”), who darn near steals the movie as the good guys’ ruthless nemesis.įamiliarity with the original episodes isn’t necessary, as a tight opening effectively recaps the backstory. Series went on to immediate cult status on ancillary, and most of the key actors reprise their roles here. The Fox network axed “Firefly” in December 2002 after only 11 of the 14 completed episodes had aired. Though the widescreen movie contains a reasonable amount of action sequences, it was clearly made with considerably less coin than tentpole studio fare, and still shows a TV-style aptitude for soundstage sequences separated by occasional exteriors. 30, a potentially risky gambit for a cult-fueled venture that would benefit from more time to build beyond its card-carrying audience. Following its world preem at the Edinburgh fest, pic goes out wide Stateside Sept.
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