Pretty sure we need to take the keys away from Bruce Willis after this one. Someone needs an intervention… or maybe he doesn’t? Maybe Willis has found his retirement niche and is happy to take the producers cash money to barely star in low budget action and science fiction films because, hell, why not? And this is a pretty bad one that I’m sure he doesn’t feel any guilt about.

So this film is Cosmic Sin, a barely comprehensible, low budget joke of a movie that barely hangs together as a film. It’s set five hundred years in the future where people still drive the pickup from across the street. Mankind has colonized some planets as the hasty and weirdly convoluted text crawl tells us… but doesn’t tell us if we’ve met aliens. Well, that’s fine since immediately aliens show up and everyone freaks out over first contact… and by freak out, I mean they decide to genocide them before they can genocide us. And they do this instantly… there’s a “45 minutes since first contact” text on the screen just as our heroes jet off to murder a species. Thus we get a cosmic sin. But, sir, I know Cosmic Sins and you, sir, are no Ender’s Game. Go home.

The film more-or-less guest stars Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo, comfortable in his B movie roots. But somehow the guest billing Willis has nets him more screen time than Grillo who kind of vanishes from the movie. The rest of the cast fills in the gaps for both big stars though and they range from competent to, well, less so.

But the main cosmic sin of this flick is a barely comprehensible script that combines horribly with editing and storytelling that just keeps not making sense. People who can’t write sci-fi shouldn’t try. There were multiple points in this flick where I had to sit back and say, “Wait… did I miss something? Did I doze off?” But, no, the movie is just poorly edited and strings together scenes and dialog that hand-wavingly tries to explain things. It doesn’t help the actual dialog ranges from generic action stuff to 60s B movie jargon to cringy try-hard attempts at clever dialog.

This is just bad mumbo-jumbo nonsense. I don’t know what I expected… I figured with Bruce Willis in it, there was a good chance it was going to be a B movie mess (sad to say) and I was right. But even other bad Willis movies like Breach make more sense than this. And it makes me appreciate all the more other low budget efforts like the Skyline series. Skip it.

Score: 56