ShangLuda
Admirable film.
Maidexpl
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
Geraldine
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Little-Mikey
I love sci-fi flicks, always have and always will. But this movie reminded me of a video game that was made into a movie.I had to rate it with 5 stars because the special effects were impressive and the movie held my attention from start to finish.Our heroes, a crack team of commandos, led by two leaders who don't get along, perhaps due to the fact that they were on opposite sides at one time and are forced by a common cause to work together.Their mission is to penetrate a villa that is full of hidden traps and snares to retrieve a precious artifact.The first problem with this movie is in how this DVD was packaged. I couldn't help but to notice that the two stars are made to look as unphotogenic as possible. You would never guess that the female, Vivian Wu is one of the most beautiful actresses. She was depicted on the cover as a plain and unappealing Oriental, which is not so.Vivian Wu plays the part of "Diana", a beautiful hologram who wins the respect of one leader and the hatred of the other as the team penetrates the villa in pursuit of what it was the team was assigned to locate. The special effects are well done and since the story takes place in the future, this allows a lot of leeway as to what is believable and what is not. Remember, this is science fiction, not science fact.The movie is entertaining, but exactly the type of movie that I would want to watch over and over again.Rent the movie, if you must. If you're a sci-fi fan, you won't be disappointed. But don't buy it unless it is on sale.
gridoon2018
"Encrypt" is a medium-budget film that tries to do at least three genres simultaneously: post-apocalyptic sci-fi, commando-type action, and philosophical rumination on what it means to be a human or a machine. It achieves modest success in all three fields. Occasionally the budget constraints show through and it becomes a bit too talky, but in general the effects are pretty good and the relatively unknown actors play their parts solidly (the most familiar name is probably Vivian Wu, who appears exclusively as a hologram). The script is rather ambitious and concludes with a hopeful but not happy ending. If you can find this movie, it's worth a look. **1/2 out of 4.
Orson-17
A user comment by Roger Tay states: "How on earth does dreck written as badly as this actually get made?" Well Roger, let me explain.This was an original script and I happen to know the screenwriter on this project, (God I love living in L.A.). I read the script way before it was produced. This is not what was written. Producers, and there are many on a project, try to dance around each other making changes to justify their existence.When enough changes are made, the producers bring in another writer who knows nothing of the original intent of the writer and tries not only to make the lame changes the producers want, but will do his/her best to change at least 51% of the script in order to share a full "screenplay by" credit on the project. And that's how this was re-written. So, to answer your question.... you take a bunch of 30 year olds who know how to dress but know nothing about story telling and give them a decent script to destroy.
Skrib
Guys,As the author of the EnCrypt screenplay that was the basis for the Sci Fi Channel movie of the same name, I must point out that writers receive no credit when a film is good (because it's the result of the 'director's vision'), and often all of the blame when it's bad ("Man, this was a piece of crap! What was that writer thinking?")
The EnCrypt film is not the spec screenplay I wrote, which, after all, was shiny enough to sell to strangers at the Sci Fi Channel. Another writer was brought in behind me and extensive changes were made resulting in the film you saw. If anyone is interested I'll email them the original spec screenplay. Judge for yourself what EnCrypt would have been in a perfect world.The world is not perfect.-- Richard Taylor
