The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
... View MoreYes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
... View MoreThe joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
... View MoreThis is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
... View MoreI'll get the negatives out of the way first. This film is low budget with a limited story line and a weak script. The acting is pretty dodgy, mainly from the male character to be fair. The two women were not that bad, and given a decent script and story to work with I think they would do OK. So for the positives. There's not a lot of action really and I found the first half hour pretty unbearable but I did stick with it and I have to admit it ended up not too bad. I was curious to see how it ended and I actually quite liked the ending. I like the ambition of this film, despite the low budget (about £50 I think!) it does its best to create tension and atmosphere and sometimes almost succeeds therefore I've given it 5 for effort. I suspect most people will hate it but it has a certain charm ...
... View MoreThis was not an easy genre of film to make with a lower budget but considering it was i was impressed. The sets and special effects were great and the filming was really top-notch! The acting was a little uneven mostly by the females in the cast but they had their moments too! The men i thought were really good and made the story very intriguing. I would definitely recommend it to others to watch but not to the hyper-critical people who would enjoy picking it apart. People don't realize what goes into making a film and they so easily tear it apart. If you can make a movie for under a million dollars that can hold someones attention for the entire time then you got a decent film!
... View MoreI would not be as brash as the other negative reviews here; as long as you don't mind the plot unfolding sloooowwwwlly you should watch it yourself and make up your own mind. This is not an action movie although there is the occasional bout of interpersonal shouting, shoving, attempted thumping or incompetent wrestling. It is a drama which takes place on a spaceship traveling from Mars to Earth, the three persons on board having little to do in the way of work apart from minor inspection and maintenance duties.My complaint is that as a psychological drama it doesn't break any new ground but misses opportunities to explore the what, how, and why of the hallucinations the, (in my view very young) crew members experience. Yes, the screen play uses flash backs and a lot of hopping back and forward in the story time line to show each character's subjective experience and I presume that is in order *not* to be a mundane and boring narrative; we the viewers have to work it all out for ourselves. By and large the movie lets us do this, but these three characters are supposed to be the intellectual cream of the crop of university aged students in a future human society on Mars. That being so it seems unlikely that they would all be so naive and lacking in insight concerning the fact of them each having hallucinations.Even if they were all hopeless geeks it beggars belief that the company or government department running the Revitalize Earth project would leave them to run amok on such an expensive spaceship without benefit of some comprehensive training in psychological theory and practice. In other words they would have been discussing their situation in a more rational and insightful way rather than just bickering like a bunch of gormless primary school kids
... View Morethis easily should be rated a 3 out of 10! the current 5.1 is far too generous, heck even a 3 is generous. the opening scene was pretty indicative of how poorly it was all put together so i really didn't need to torture myself for another 40 minutes until i finally could not take it anymore. i am quite certain i have seen better camera work on Youtube from 12 year old's, yea it really is that bad. anyone rating this above 3 stars is either easy to please or is involved with the project in some way, is a fake review or was payed or influenced to put something on here to skew the vote. pathetic. Unfortunate, because we see this a lot here on IMDb especially with lower budget movies like this one being a perfect example. if you really have nothing better to do, you can always see it for yourself but be warned, this is utter garbage!
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