* - The genre of science fiction is unmatched by any other in promise, seeing as with some creativity, a few good ideas and maybe some nifty effects there is practically no limit to what one could put onscreen. On the other side of the coin, the genre also has amongst the most potential of any to also fail miserably in its attempts and come off seeming laughably inadequate and absurd. Unfortunately for the makers of 2007’s “Millenium Crisis” it is the latter of these two categories into which they have tossed their preposterous flail at filmmaking. To say that this was filmed on a shoestring budget is probably almost literally accurate, in that it seems like the producers sold exactly one shoestring (worth about $0.80 in my estimation) in order fund their embarrassing shambles of a movie. Not only did they decide not to pour any money into it, they also hired a 9th grader to film it in his bedroom with some pack-in computer graphics and editing software and a cheap webcam that he got on sale at one of those little kiosks at Target that are sandwiched between the DVDs and the video games. Oh, and they also asked the 9th grader they hired as director to write the script, into which he put all of his greatest fantasy ideas, such as a scene in which a topless woman has a sword fight with a ninja. I’m serious. That’s actually a scene in the movie. Ted Raimi (the somewhat known TV actor from “Seaquest” and “Xena”) is in the movie for some reason, though. What the hell was he thinking?
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