Masterful Movie

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I liked this.I mean, it wasn't full of action and drama, but that really never mattered to me. I don't need technicolor or car chases or CGI out the wazoo to enjoy a film.Really what you have here is a story about a depressed man on vacation that is dealing with a little midlife crisis and still trying to please his family before hitting them with the bad news.You get into his head and his delusions and, like all indie films, it relies on a smart script because it, well, that is all it has going for it.There are better movies out there, but Escape from Tomorrow is entertaining for what it is and the resources they had to make it with. You can't really judge it against films like Goodfellas that had all the support budget and star power to win over audiences.The film takes dedication to watch and the pay off is there if you have the patience required for indie films.

I just now finished watching "Escape From Tomorrow", and I must say, I was impressed. I didn't expect much. I expected it to be as cheesy as Sharknado, maybe even cheesier. But it was a great movie. But I have no idea how they managed to shoot some scenes in guerrilla format. For example, the part where Jim was imagining Spaceship Earth exploding (I couldn't help but laugh) how could they film a scene like that without some bystander pointing, saying "Hey! How come that guy is filming those people running around like the spaceship earth is rolling around?" I also thought the ending was confusing. It showed him dead with a creepy cat face, but then it showed him still alive and with a new family. What the heck? But overall, "Escape From Tomorrow" was a great movie, and I wouldn't mind watching it again and again.

You've heard the stories about this movie: rogue filmmaker stealthily shoots his feature film in Disney World without being caught or somehow sued to death. The movie screens at Sundance as a buzzworthy curiosity for fans of bizarre midnight movies. The predicted legal backlash from Disney never happens and the movie is allowed to exist and sit in Netflix's Watch Instant library for anyone to see without fear of legal action. So, how does it hold up a few years later, after all the hubbub has died down? Not well is the answer! I was inspired to go back and screen this after I read about another dark Disney-inspired art piece: Banksy's "Dismaland." I don't live in the UK, so I figured the next best thing would be to experience "Escape from Tomorrow" -- a David Lynchian treatment of "The Happiest Place on Earth" that's sadly more fun to talk about than it is to actually watch.During a family vacation to Disney World, family man Jim is informed that he's being laid off from his job. And, as you can imagine, it's all downhill from there. Soon, the only thing he's riding in the Magic Kingdom is a downward spiral filled with demonic visions, psycho-sexual temptations, and sci-fi dread.For the next 90 or so minutes, we watch as Jim pervs out on two French tourist girls in the park, has a weird sexual encounter with a woman who may or may not be a witch, and tries to evade an outbreak of a mythical "Cat Flu" that is basically a death sentence of diarrhea. All sounds cool, right? Then why is it such a chore to sit through? The actors.The actors playing the family --a cast of unknowns-- just scream at each other the entire time, which made me just as uncomfortable as watching real families scream at each other in the real Disney World.I'll give the movie this: though its writing is borderline cringeworthy, the visuals on display are haunting and well-realized. The "It's a Small World" sequence --filled with a menagerie of cutesy puppet faces turning devilish-- is worth finding on youtube or at least fast-forwarding to, if you're in the mood for something that's simultaneously macabre and funny. Also noteworthy is the climactic sequence in Spaceship Earth where the movie goes into full-blown science fiction and we watch a mad scientist give Jim a brain scan with a Spaceship Earth-themed helmet.There are a lot of interesting ideas here but the execution to make any of it meaningful never comes close. Due to its production limitations, I was constantly reminded that I was watching a troupe of guerilla filmmakers putting all their effort into secretly filming a movie at a famous landmark instead of just, you know, MAKING A GOOD MOVIE.I didn't care if Jim made things right with his family, or survived the not-so-hidden horrors that were plaguing him. I just wanted to see what weird Disney-inspired twists the director was going to throw at me next. Sadly, beyond those two striking sequences I mentioned, director Randy Moore's bag of tricks is limited.The film ends with a doozy of the "WTF did I just watch?" variety, and all I'm left with is a fun movie to recount to friends and a bad taste in my mouth.

This movie basically plays with all the legend Urban's myth of Disney world.From the robots humans to the demons employees to the mysterious deaths to the ghost kids...I mean to all that creepy things that we all hear of Disney.i like the movie creepy ambient and the way they put all things together.The acting is average for this kind of movie and the movie never boring and catch you since the opening.Is glad to see a very different kind of horror movie...see this movie and go inside the "dark and cruel world of Disney".