This film has got to be some attempt to get Mario Lopez back on the celebrity map. I don't think at this point he cares what kind of press he gets: he'll even settle to have a rumor that he's gay spread around to get him attention.

The Journey: Absolution begins with the destruction of life as we know it, compliments of a lame CGI meteor hitting a lame CGI model of Earth. Skip ahead a few decades, and Mario Lopez has recruited into a military installation in the Arctic to find his friend, who is male. Haha. Richard Grieco is the ruthless commandant who trains the recruits and periodically selects one the most elite of the troop to be a part of the Z-team.

Everything that can go wrong in a movie does here. Uninspired direction, cheap, flimsy sets, embarrassing sexist scenes, flat, dull performances, laughable dialogue, bargain-basement special effects, and cliches and plot holes in the script larger than the hole left by the meteor that hits Earth.

Richard Grieco's constant repetition of, "For the sake of Pete," brings to mind John Travolta's mindless repetition of "leverage" in another sci-fi turkey, Battlefield Earth. Mario Lopez shows us exactly why he starred in Saved By The Bell and not much more.

The only truly decent thing about this flick is all the hot men prancing around in nothing but underwear and black combat boots. Otherwise, this awful, awful attempt at sci-fi falls flat on it's homo-erotic face.

2 out of 10

I have seen some movies that were pretty out there and totally incoherent, but a lot of the times it is because they are one of those home brewed movies done on the cheap. Not saying this thing had blockbuster money behind it, but it was not done on the super cheap either and it totally made no sense. It is to the point where it almost seems like it should be a sequel to something.

The story, oh boy, going to give this the old college try. An asteroid has decimated earth and 30 years later Mario Lopez goes to a base in the arctic to train or something. It may be a school, and it has airtight security, but some girls can somehow get in and where the heck are they coming from? A crazed guy is running the show and he seems to have motivations and he is an alien...I guess. Mario is trying to save his friend and people are aware that the guy running this place is unstable, but Mario has to save his friend before they shut the place down and then his friend gets shot and Mario seems to get over it in record time...did I mention there may be aliens or something?

The movie is horrible, my explanation is more coherent than the actual movie as I truly watched this thing in a state of confusion. Mario Lopez just does not scream bad ass and Richard Grieco is so over the top whispering then shouting and Jamie Pressly in this thing is pointless, just a way for the director to convince the viewer that this is not his homoerotic fantasy fan fiction.

So, no, this thing is not good. Once again, people dare say Manos: The Hands of Fate is the worst movie of all time, but I knew what the heck was going on in that film, the story had a coherence. This thing did not. If you are a woman or a gay guy it may be worth viewing as there are dudes with no shirts and in their underwear all over the film, but even then you will not enjoy the plot! Honestly, I have seen better stories and plots in adult films!