When the Alliance discover that their secret was about to be let in the open, they send an assassin after a crew member aboard
the ship serenity just to keep to keep
the secret hidden.
Go out and see Joss Whedon's witty whizbang of an action movie, or we will kill a kitten.
Dark Horizons
January 15, 2008
Hardcore fans will undoubtedly be satisfied but its unlikely this will spread much beyond that audience, and even they will find it lacks that human spark and freshness that made the series distinctive and appealing.
The settings and tone are hyper-real, yet the human behaviour is grounded and credible, the moral conflicts complex and involving. Shiny, intelligent fun.
New viewers will be a little bit lost, and old fans won't get quite everything they wanted, but there's enough going on in Serenity and it's all so much fun that it doesn't matter.
After suffering through a summer crammed with TV shows being remade into movies, it's refreshing to see a movie based on a TV show that is so entertaining that it actually makes you want to go and see the show of which the movie was created.
