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Teleios (2017)
It's a movie with a message.
In many ways this movie reminded me about the original Star Trek series. The costumes, the props, the effects, the clichés, the play, and even the way it tries to explore social norms and problems.
It's definitely a low budget film, so don't expect amazing visuals. It's not an action movie that would hold you on the edge of your seat, either. It's a drama and if you could overlook 1 hour of SciFi clichés, you might come to enjoy it. I certainly did.
Be warned, the plot does involve 3 different themes, one of which comes out as surprise twist out of nowhere, yet it strangely rhymes with the events on the station. It's not hard to imagine that both are result of the same logic, even though they are completely separate events. In retrospect this twist is probably the reason why I liked this movie and why I would recommend you to watch it.
Eragon (2006)
A long time ago in a Kingdom far away
I must say that I enjoyed the movie. The scenery is beautiful, there is a lot of action, remarkable battles and some magic. However there is something terribly wrong with it. According to most of the comments here, the plot alteration compared to the book have taken the essence from the movie and had faced the actors with impossible task to bring something smelly to life.
But that's not the worse part of it. I haven't read the book and I probably won't. But what is left from the book in the screenplay is 70% "Star Wars - New Hope".
No, they are not Jedi, they are riders. They don't have light-sabers, they have dragons. The movie starts with chaise of a princes that holds something precious (no death star plans or robots here, not even ships, just a stone and horses). The princes is captured but not before she sends the precious stone away. The stone ends up in a young boy who works in his uncle farm, where he's been abandoned by his mother. There is the friend/cousin, who flee off the planet/village (well, he doesn't say he is going to join the rebels nor we see him in the final battle). The stone turns out to be dragon egg that hatches. This leads our hero to the only man who knows something about dragons - the local analog of Obi-Wan. The old man then have to take care of our young hero when imperial troops kill his uncle in their search for the stone. Of course the old man starts to teach his pupil but is killed when they attempt to save the princes from the enemy castle (just a normal castle, it doesn't fly and doesn't destroy princes' kingdom). After the successful rescue, guided by young mysterious archer/shooter (nothing like Han Solo) they flee to the rebel base where the final battle with empire forces takes place.