Another movie that is completely destroyed by the poor quality of the chain of events. The absurd numbers of side changes the main character has, the big speech from the captain that clearly goes to another movie, the commercial poses of everybody, the plot, the plot itself is a huge waste of time. Character develop is a joke in this movie.

In other hand, the visual photographic scenes are very good, that brings the necessary balance to watch this movie till the end.

It seems the tried to make a change to normal workflow, by putting the main fighting scene at the middle of the movie, in an action film that is a big risk if you don't have enough plot to make a comeback. This film just fill the space after the fight with useless words, with character introduction, its a mess....

I would NOT recommend this to friends

At some time in out future, or perhaps past, Earth has colonized the galaxy with 500 billion people or so. As it turns out , it is not like Star Trek and inhabitable planets are inhospitable and there is only one other intelligent species out they are down to their last one. So even though we made it to 500 billion in space, we couldn't sustain it and everyone is told to come back home, apparently not a well thought out plan as the Earth couldn't hold everyone, ergo "The Homecoming Wars." A truce was made and a Gaia Coalition was formed telling everyone to stay away from earth, i.e. go back and die or something.

After creating plot holes big enough to drive a dark mattered powered starship through, enters Harlock a space pirate who is stealing detonators from dead planets. Logan signs on as a crew member although he is really an operative for the Coalition who want to prevent Harlock from returning to earth, which becomes clear later on. It is confusing as to who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. The plot twists at 30 minutes, then twists again at an hour, and then again. The pirate soldiers wore outfits that looked like there came out of "The Fifth Element" while the Coalition opted for classic Starwars storm trooper outfits.

The entire film is CG. There is a cute blonde, but I am an old fashion guy. Tifa is my first and only love. About an hour into the film it attempts to build character through some flashbacks, but it really sucked at it.

The film is about two hours long and my interested started to wane at about the third plot twist, which seemed more like a sign of bad writing than good. I enjoyed the graphics and an introduction to the Harlock character, another in an infinite series of Japanese animated characters I never knew about. The plot could have been tighter.

Parental Guide: No f-bombs or sex. Brief areola-less shower nudity.

The human race has spread to the stars but, having reached 500 billion, they have overpopulated the universe, so they have all decided to move back to the Earth. The problem is that the organisation in charge of everyone has decided No. However, there is this space pirate called Harlock who has his own plans.

This is based on a manga which I haven't read. It is a CGI feature, and it looks great.

And it's a muddled mess which hasn't been thought through. It's frustrating sitting through stuff which looks so good, asking yourself questions about things which are illogical or worse. Next time, get the script sorted out first.