SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Steineded How sad is this?

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

IDontRideBarrels Overall this is a fairly mediocre film. It's short, under 80 minutes, so it's not a waste of time even if you hate it. Dead Space: Downfall is much better even though it's 3 years older. The plot is more cohesive and so is the animation style, a very important aspect.While there can be some complaints about the plot in Aftermath (mostly regarding repetition), it's reasonably decent, and the biggest complaint is the visual aspect. The film is divided into multiple parts and each is made differently - some with 2D animation and some with 3D animation. The 3D is completely awful despite the lighting (inexcusably worse than cutscenes from some PS1 games) and the 2D is weird in the last portion (not objectively BAD, but the style isn't fitting and heavily conflicts with previous sections). Most people would probably rate this as a 7 or 8 if Aftermath used the first part's 2D animation throughout.If you're a fan of Dead Space it's probably worth watching Aftermath, but I wouldn't recommend it; I'd recommend Downfall instead. It's not amazing, but it's much better than Aftermath in all aspects.

FlippyisFloppy This was better than what the reviews from others seemed to be. Honestly I enjoyed the movie and I will point out the Pros of the movie and the consPros: +First 3 Animations from the flashbacks where great (wasnt a big fan of the last one but it was fine)+Excellent Story to help fill the gap between the first game and second game.+ Voice Acting was good, not great but good. Cons: - The CGI animation was terribleOther Notes: Yeah yeah I just felt lazy and shorted the review by doing a Pro and Con thing, which is somewhat unusual for a movie review.I'll quickly explain why I gave it a somewhat average rating. The main reason was because of the CGI Animation, I swear to god if they did the regular animation (any of the first 3 flashback)instead, it would of been bumped to an 7 or 8. I can't believe they even considered using that bad of an animation. Otherwise everything else was good about the movie. Last thing, the fourth animation I wasn't particularly fond of. The main reason? Everyone looked like they where on steroids or something....and to me that gives an ugly appearance.But Overall I really did enjoy the movie, it definitely something worth watching especially if your a Dead Space fan.

JoeB131 Okay, I did a review of Dead Space, and realized it was based on Video Game Schlock... So I should have known better. Fool me twice, shame on me! This film follows the recollections of three survivors of an encounter with the magic artifact made by aliens who created humanity to be the baseline for cannibalistic zombie-monsters.As much as it agonizes me to say this, they went with the Rashomon approach, of telling the story from four points of view, and just to underscore it, four different animation styles. The wrap-around footage is CGI schlock, while the actual recollections are done in various types of Korean produced anime. You get the feeling the five animation teams had little to do with each other, and therefore drew four different types of artwork... Even the uniforms and equipment were inconsistent.Interesting? Kind of, but not really. If anything, the CGI wraparound story is the worst because it's such poor quality of the YouTube variety...

Raymond Ng I personally enjoyed the first dead space animated movie that came out in 2008 so I was eager to see another installment. The first movie had all the elements that made the film great and enjoyable. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for this one. The problem lies in the direction the film decided to take this time. My main issue with the movie is how it switches from horribly poor cgi to hand drawn animation. It is quite irritating and almost as if the people developing this couldn't decide on one set of animation to take the sequel. Who knows? Maybe they were trying to save some time and money getting this movie to roll out with the follow-up game. The all shade-cell cgi animation during the present was poor and looked relatively similar to that of "iron man armor adventures" TV series on Nick. It might work okay on that show but it just doesn't work in the sci-fi horror landscape which this movie is. We lose a lot of the visual details that are displayed along with the tone of the film it tries to be. Am I suppose to laugh or be creeped out during the scenes involving the daughter Vivian? I would think the latter but I just couldn't help but laugh at how bad it was when they showed her all full of blood and the instant transportations (you know since she's a ghost/hallucination) as her father was being dragged to the chair to be interrogated. I welcomed the hand-drawn animations with open arms when the flashback scenes to aegis took place and prayed it would stay throughout the course of the film. The first movie had the right balance of hand-drawn animation and cgi mixed in so why couldn't this one be the same. Why include the shell-shaded cgi animation that looked like some amateur made it for animation class. The plot was fairly decent but ultimately forgettable so I wont bother addressing it. Overall, I left film feeling disappointed but still entertained. It is worth a rent.