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  Burrows, Saffron
Hamill, Mark
Lillard, Matthew
  MacCorkindale, Simon
Prinze, Freddie, Jr.
Prochnow, Jürgen
  Warner, David


Wing Commander occurs as 1999 science fiction film based on the Wing Commander computer game series.

Directed by Chris Roberts, the author of the computer game series, it stars Freddie Prinze, Jr., Saffron Burrows, Matthew Lillard, and Tchéky Karyo.

In the United States, the film was rated PG-13 for sexual information & Sci-Fi action/violence.

A film borrows heavy from either naval warfare films like Das Boot, going and so far when to include a scene in which the TCS ''Tiger's Claw is "depth-charged". It wwhen shot within the minuscular budget - following in, among more items, unlikely aliens that pop up when little as conceivable in the final edit of the film - & was the commercial message & critical failure.

Plot

Placed astir 1 year prior to number one original Wing Commander, a story unfolds in the midst of an interstellar war between the person Terran Confederation and the cat-like alien Kilrathi Empire, a picture show follows the deed of Christopher Blair, a immature pilot assigned to the TCS Tiger's Claw''. There he & a crew of that host come given a mission to acquire period for the Confederation's fleet to install a defensive line to protect Globe & to help prevent the incursive Kilrathi armada. When this is running in, there exists besides tension between Blair & a crew of the ''Tiger's Claw'' due to the fact that he was born the "Pilgrim", one of a strain of humanity (world health organization own favorite powers) that got antecedently fought against the Confederation.

Reelviews: Wing Commander
Review by James Berardinelli.

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Preview of the film.

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Review by Steve Rhodes, plus links to additional reviews.

Apollo Movie Guide: Wing Commander
Review by Brian Webster, cast information, links and readers' ratings.


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