It's just really delightful—an intelligent blockbuster, which are vanishingly rare, and blue-collar space opera, ditto; in fact a whole lot of touches about the world and the characters are the sort of thing I see much more often in written fiction than on film; and it just really works. I have a couple of minor complaints about aspects name-checked and left unexplored, but for all I know they were casualties of avoiding a three-hour film. Space Sweepers as it stands runs a little over two hours and never feels like it. It's remarkably economical for the lot that happens in it.
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It's just really delightful—an intelligent blockbuster, which are vanishingly rare, and blue-collar space opera, ditto; in fact a whole lot of touches about the world and the characters are the sort of thing I see much more often in written fiction than on film; and it just really works. I have a couple of minor complaints about aspects name-checked and left unexplored, but for all I know they were casualties of avoiding a three-hour film. Space Sweepers as it stands runs a little over two hours and never feels like it. It's remarkably economical for the lot that happens in it.