In 2519, humanity fights its first interplanetary war. Not against an alien species, but against one of our own colonies, which is trying to secede. The rebels are ultimately crushed when General James Ford deploys a Quantum Bomb against them. This kills 70 million people and makes him the most hated man in human civilisation.
Twenty-five years later, we have our first encounter with an aggressive alien species at an isolated mining outpost. The survivors of the attack are brought back to Earth to debrief, and the aging General Ford is called in to consult.
The 'survivors' prove to be under alien control, and are a diversionary attack while the aliens invade the human colony planet of Ellora. Human authorities scramble to assemble a strike team to send to the besieged planet. Despite his age, General Ford is assigned to this force on the basis that the mission may need someone of his proven ruthlessness.
Cosmic Sin is a sloppily directed, sloppily written, sloppily acted mess of a film. I'm not sure how Bruce Willis ended up attached to it*, but it's one of eight movie credits he has for 2021, with a similar number slated for 2022 on his IMDB page. Perhaps he has reached the Danny Trejo "As long as the cheque clears, I'll be in anything" stage of his career? Certainly his presence in the film is purely physical, with no indication of any emotional connection to or interest in the project.
So does the film have any value? Well, perhaps as a practical example of time dilation theory. I mean, if you want to make 98 minutes feel like they're about 12 hours long, Cosmic Sin's muddled narrative, clumsy dialogue and at-best-mediocre acting will certainly do the trick.
* edit 28 March 2022: it has now emerged that Willis has early onset memory loss and is churning out as many films as possible to make money while he can still work.
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