Trailer makes it look like a cheap knockoff of "The Core" (which was a lame movie to begin with). Knowing Scifi, it'll suck ass. Serves 'em right for cancelling a perfectly good TV show just so they can fund crap like this.
With virtually no exceptions, Sci-Fi Original movies suck. At least in this one, it doesn't look like they are running through endless, perpetual forest the entire movie. The only Sci-Fi Original I liked was Anonymous Rex, perhaps not just because of my furryness, but also because it was very tongue-in-cheek and comedic. Compare that to say, the horror that was Alien Apocalypse, and the attempt as seriousness is laughable. We ain't laughing with the movie, we're laughing at it.
I think we know the real reason Sci-Fi canned Mystery Science Theater. The B-movies they mocked on that show are far superior to the supposed high-end movies Sci-Fi tries to foist on us.
An even greater mystery is how The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas can even remotely classify as science fiction...
Especially demonstrative of some of the poverty of their imagination in that they already did a cheap knock off of the movie "The Core", i.e. "Deep Core". Why don't they just go back through the long catalog of old good sf short stories and do those instead?
They really should stick to simple sci-fi movies. For example, the old Twilight Zone isn't very advanced by today's standards at all, but it's the stories, the ironic outcomes, and the disguised political commentary that make it have eerie relevance even today. This is because the show was well-written. Too often, sci-fi places the visuals ahead of the story.
Some of the best sci-fi has nothing to do with robots, aliens, or genetic experiments. It's about the moral underneath the whole tale.
