Serenity 2005

Reviews (16)

1. D

   DirkH 8 月 25, 2026

   Made me watch Firefly and confronted me with one of the greates mysteries known to man. Why on earth was this series cancelled?????

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2. F

   friendofhagrid 8 月 25, 2026

   in love with zoe and her perfect hair

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3. C

   Comicbookfan 8 月 25, 2026

   Never watched firefly but have watched this a lot of times and this still holds up. A scifi film that knows to keep an audience engaged and shows good use of world building and has characters that are well written. Its got a good balance between dark and light moments , there’s lots of comedic moments and one liners but the plot gets serious in its later half and nathen fillions mal gets dark in his behaviour getting pissed off and angry with the situation he’s in. Exciting , intense, lots of action and a fikm that keeps itself busy never letting go of the action throttle but still keeping story and emotion involved.

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4. C

   Carl Hudson 8 月 25, 2026

   A damn near perfect film – fun, entertaining, always moving forward, never stopping to re-fuel. It’s a testament to Whedon’s brilliant writing, directing, characters and actors that it works nearly just as well stand-alone as it does when viewed after Firefly.

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5. M

   megan 8 月 25, 2026

   nathan fillion is gonna save the world and all our lives someday and there’s nothing we can do to stop that

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6. M

   Mary Conti 8 月 25, 2026

   After finally barreling through Joss Whedon’s cult TV favorite Firefly in the span of a week, I jumped down into the show’s half movie half series finale Serenity Part of what disappoints me most about the cancellation of Whedon’s show is not losing what the show was, but what it could have become. It was clear with the back half of the show’s first (and only) season that it was ramping up to explore its characters more, and introduce more moralistic situations that made it so interesting, along with further worldbuilding. Serenity, the film as it exists, almost seems to pretend like it exists in a world where we did get 98 episodes of Firefly. There’s a sense of respect…

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7. J

   JaFritt 8 月 25, 2026

   Me: Wow, this Firefly show is damn good. Can’t wait to see where it goes next- Fox: NAH! I say let it die! Let it die, Let it die! Let it shrivel up and die! Me: *Swears in Chinese*

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8. S

   Simon Ramshaw 8 月 25, 2026

   Dear ‘Who Ever Was Responsible For Cancelling Firefly”, I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for sadistic pleasure in annoying fanboys, I am in no position to stop you, as I do not have patience for people like you. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you bring Firefly back now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. Love, Simon (Just kiddin’, o’course, but seriously, mate, do all of us a favour and bring it back. I won’t ask nicely again…)

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9. D

   DirkH 8 月 25, 2026

   Every single time…. Happy In good company Revisiting friends Caught in the momentum Perfect escapism Lump in throat Confused Angry Completely and utterly miserable Every single time….. Goddamnit.

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10. C

    Cellar Door L 8 月 25, 2026

    How come a space universe with this much sauce only got one movie and 1 season cancelled series and not having at least 5 movies like Star Wars or Star Trek?? VIOLATION. I don’t even know ts got a cancelled show called The Firefly if it wasn’t every review on this movie only talk about them lol. Prime Video do your thing guys, I know you need something after The Boys ends.

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11. S

    shookone 8 月 25, 2026

    Joss Whedons Firefly debacle wrapped into a blockbuster stand alone corset. the pre Avengers test series works best as geeks fetishization of both: genre and women. the female body made for the male gaze, but cleverly deconstructing the secret fantasies from nymphomaniac (Kaylee) to the unknown danger (River). nonetheless, it’s foremost sexy as this is not a gender study class. that way we can forgive the movies necessity for the satisfaction of conventional needs.

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12. K

    Kit Lazer 8 月 25, 2026

    I’m of so many minds about this. I have come to love this show over the course of our coverage on the pod solely because I’ve come to love these characters. I’m grateful to get this movie, and of course the cancellation wasn’t their fault… …but the ending of this story and the answers to the lingering questions (what few we got) were better in my head.

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13. C

    CinemaSerf 1 月 25, 2025

    At the start, I thought this was a sort of hybrid between “Quantum Leap” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” and that it was just going to be derivate nonsense. It’s actually quite a bit better than that as we discover the malevolent “Operative” (Chiwitel Ejiofor) is on the trail of a priceless asset. It’s not a jewel or a gadget, it’s “River” (Summer Glau) and as he closes in on their ship “Serentity”, things are starting to get hot for it’s captain “Mal” (Nathan Fillion) and the others in this disparate crew. There’s plenty of dissent amongst this bunch, not least because nobody actually knows why this unassuming woman is so valuable to their determined pursuer – but can they keep together and focussed long enough to evade capture and maybe even find out? None of the acting here is really worth mentioning, but the dialogue is quite entertaining, the visual effects deliver well and there’s loads of high-octane cosmic adventure with choreographed fisticuffs, zapping lasers and an excitingly created denouement that the CGI lads can be proud of. I didn’t see any of “Firefly” (2002) on which this is based, but as a stand-alone sci-fi adventure it still works well.

14. J

    John Chard 9 月 24, 2019

    This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then – explode.

    Serenity is written and directed by Josh Whedon. It stars Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Music is by David Newman and cinematography by Jack N. Green.

    When the captain Mal Reynolds (Fillion) of the space craft Serenity takes on board Dr. Simon Tam (Maher) and his troubled sister River (Glau), it thrusts the entire crew into a world of conspiracy and galactic despots.

    Coming at it as a complete novice as regards “Firefly”, the short lived TV show that Serenity is spawned from, I personally have no frame of reference to work from. What I found was a hugely enjoyable sci-fi Western hybrid that deserved a better box office than it got. The cast are all comfortable with each other and very watchable, which isn’t surprising since Whedon has transported them all over from “Firefly”, good move that, while the action quota is high and the black comedy rich.

    Where the itches start to appear for newcomers like myself, is that it does feel like an extended TV episode. With a twisty plot that sees Whedon cram much into the 2 hour running time, it demands the utmost attention. Which is fair enough to a degree, but many go (or more pertinently would have gone) into “Serenity” for a sci-fi action adventure, not for a tickle of the cranium. If this contributed to the poor show at the box office? I’m not sure. But you have to think this really was only made for the die-hard fans of the show.

    Galling really, because the last third is a ripper of a blockbuster. The action sequences are expertly crafted, the story explodes still further and the principal characters really let loose, particularly the excellent Fillion. Biggest plus of all, the finale doesn’t cop out by insulting those who have stayed the course chartered by the good ship Serenity and its crew. It’s smart genre film making, a very enjoyable film without doubt, but really it’s not got mainstream appeal. Which might suit those die-hards in a selfish kind of why, but that also means we are unlikely to get a sequel. And that’s a shame because a newbie like me could easily stand some more of this whizz bangery. 7/10

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    Matthew Sanders 1 月 27, 2014

    This was an extremely poor movie. The weakest character during the TV series, River Tam, confusingly became the story focus in this movie.

    Despite never exercising and having a small frame, River fought and K.O.ed a room full of bar patrons.

    The crew, mysteriously, were devoted to going to the planet River wanted to visit to help her discover her past despite showing various degrees of hostility toward her during the series ranging from open contempt to advocating her murder.

    The main villains do not make sense. They are, supposedly, so wild that they regularly sack planets and cannibalize its inhabitants, but can still work together well enough to fly space ships. The entire population of these wild people came from the planet River wants to visit and from a single research facility. I’d guess about 1,000 research and support personnel were initially infected. They have no way of infecting further individuals, the facility was shut down, and yet their current population is many times the original amount. How?

    The plot does not make sense. It is not engaging. None of the characters are interesting. The characters die without emotional impact. Pass on this movie. Like the TV series, this is a waste of time.

16. A

    anthonyryan1 5 月 28, 2013

    A nice wrap-up to Firefly, unfortunately far too condensed. In may ways it felt like they took the major events that would have spanned the next 2 or 3 seasons and crammed it all into a 2 hour movie.

    Nonetheless, it provides a decent sense of closure to the series.