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Serenity

2005 1h 59m
Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
MOVIEVIBE Rating
7.4/10
3,995 reviews
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Serenity

A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew find themselves being pursued by an Alliance agent who will stop at nothing to find them.

"They aim to misbehave."

Top Billed Cast

Nathan Fillion
Nathan Fillion
Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds
Summer Glau
Summer Glau
River Tam
Gina Torres
Gina Torres
Zoë Alleyne Washburne
Alan Tudyk
Alan Tudyk
Hoban 'Wash' Washburne
Morena Baccarin
Morena Baccarin
Inara Serra
Adam Baldwin
Adam Baldwin
Jayne Cobb
Jewel Staite
Jewel Staite
Kaywinnet Lee 'Kaylee' Frye
Sean Maher
Sean Maher
Simon Tam

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

A anthonyryan1 Verified TMDB Critic
2013-05-28

A nice wrap-up to Firefly, unfortunately far too condensed. In may ways it felt like they took the major events that would have spanned the next 2 or 3 seasons and crammed it all into a 2 hour movie.

Nonetheless, it provides a decent sense of closure to the series....

M Matthew Sanders Verified TMDB Critic
2014-01-27

This was an extremely poor movie. The weakest character during the TV series, River Tam, confusingly became the story focus in this movie.

Despite never exercising and having a small frame, River fought and K.O.ed a room full of bar patrons.

The crew, mysteriously, were devoted to going to the planet River wanted to visit to help her discover her past despite showing various degrees of hostility toward her during the series ranging from open contempt to advocating her murder.

The main villains do not make sense. They are, supposedly, so wild that they regularly sack planets and cannib...

J John Chard Verified TMDB Critic
2019-09-24

This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then - explode.

Serenity is written and directed by Josh Whedon. It stars Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Music is by David Newman and cinematography by Jack N. Green.

When the captain Mal Reynolds (Fillion) of the space craft Serenity takes on board Dr. Simon Tam (Maher) and his troubled sister River (Glau), it thrusts the entire crew into a world of conspirac...

C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
2025-01-25

At the start, I thought this was a sort of hybrid between "Quantum Leap" and "Guardians of the Galaxy" and that it was just going to be derivate nonsense. It's actually quite a bit better than that as we discover the malevolent "Operative" (Chiwitel Ejiofor) is on the trail of a priceless asset. It's not a jewel or a gadget, it's "River" (Summer Glau) and as he closes in on their ship "Serentity", things are starting to get hot for it's captain "Mal" (Nathan Fillion) and the others in this disparate crew. There's plenty of dissent amongst this bunch, not least because nobody actually knows why...