Dante 01

Film: Dante 01, 2008
Director: Marc Caro
In a nutshell: A strange new prisoner arrives at a remote space station populated by the criminally insane.

Some films are less than the sum of their parts. Here are the parts of Marc Caro's mystical sci-fi turkey Danto 01:

For hubristic scientists and space madness, see Soderbergh's Solaris remake and Danny Boyle's Sunshine. For amnesiac messiah and heavy handed religious iconography, see the unwatchable French sci-fi turd Eden Log. For claustrophobia and interminably slow pacing see, well, all of the above. For bald murderers incarcerated in a space penitentiary, see Alien III. For Christ-like prisoner who can heal the dying by magically eating their disease, see The Green Mile. For awful greenish colour filter that looks like the camera lens has been fished out of a stagnant pond, see every shitty torture porn film from Hostel onwards. These are not exactly high quality components (actually, The Green Mile ain't so bad) and you can't build a Porche from a bucket of rusty spoons.

Ugh, I lack the energy to attempt a synopsis.

Dante 01's half-baked script and simplistic production design reek of "low-budget debut feature", yet this is hardly Marc Caro's first venture - he made the wonderful Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children in the 90s with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. How, then, has he managed to make a film as terrible as Dante 01? It is a mystery as incomprehensible as the plot of this film, and as uninteresting to solve.