Best movie of this year hands down!

Expected more

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

This film is so ambitious and such a spectacle unto itself that it really defies reviews that spring from the typical needs of a moviegoer, and yet it really isn't quite an "art" film either. From the outset you just have no idea what is going on, and so you are forced to author your own plot in the most satisfying way. Besides a manuscript somehow lodged in the hull of the ship, What is the relationship between the eerie opening Civil War scenes and the solo mission 200 years alter? I love visual puzzles like this, and frankly they keep me loyal to the end, which may make me a weak critic. However, I want to do more than simply applaud the risks and experimentation, because I feel there is something very solid in the payoff that you truly do have to decide what to do with.

I read online that the budget for Love was $500,000. At a personal level this would be a nice lottery win, but in the film industry just a catering budget. The result is impressive to say the least, especially the Civil War scenes, which are incredible, a bravura piece of inventive film-making and editing that looks like it cost millions. The story isn't entirely original, but it is handled in an interesting way that maintains interest to the last frame. A good companion piece to Solaris (the Soviet version) for a sci-fi double bill.

An extra effort to be able to convey the artsy value, this in the contrary film kind of fails to deliver a meaningful story. The movie starts out interestingly with the civil war sequence and the contrast move to the space age. But then it wears out its welcome when it takes the isolation scenes a bit too far then change to a crude reproduction of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. I've suspected such a move since early on with the all too similar opening scene of orbital shot of earth. But the later on redoing the whole significant parts of Kubrick's work; hallucination scene, the warped out light speed kaleidoscope scene, and even remaking its own black monolith, is a low effort indeed. Yes this movie gets artsy with all that abstractly reachable scenes and the great sound works. But that's just it; the story doesn't even do justice to all the viewers' curiosity successfully built. The acting is quite nice though. Acting alone Gunner Wright can handle those close up shots well enough with his varied expressions.

It started with an incorrect synopsis on Netflix, that Lee found a way to travel through time. At first that made the most sense, since it showed civil war combat at the beginning, which was by far the best part of the movie. Then began the downward spiral into nonsensical, grossly incorrect ISS imitations. At first I told myself it is simply low-budget, they didn't want to CGI weightlessness. It was interesting to try to piece together his character through the snippets of history they show you. It was still irritating to see him walking around on his feet. But for me, the worst part is they show him doing SO MANY gravity-required tasks. Fine, you don't know how to set up a weightless harness. But you don't need to continually show that gravity exists! Just hide it a bit! Drinking water from a bottle, showing it slosh around? Why not just put water in a ziploc baggie to imitate space drinks? JOGGING ON A TREADMILL? Just add some exercise bands to tie him down to look like actual space treadmill running. PUSHUPS? Laying in a twin bed with sheets? Just use a sleeping bag strapped to the wall. COME ON! Jesus, has the writer/director ever seen a space movie? This is simple, cheap stuff. No creativity.The last scene for me was when he woke up to smoke. That was pretty exciting, but then they totally botched it. He jumps up, all intense, runs for his mask, which was a neat addition. Then he grabs one of those plastic clamps you get at lowes... proceeds use it on a pipe and it makes a ratchet sound... WTF? then the pipe falls loose and sucks up the smoke. Wait... no fire? This movie can't really be so pretentious that it wants you to think he hallucinated smoke to vacuum up, but no fire? It literally makes no sense. And I tried my hardest to give it artistic liberty, but there was just far too many lazy flaws in editing and basic concepts.I could not see past the slews of glaring flaws. I did however like how eerie it was to have the control panel light up with strange interference sounds. If it focused on that aspect, and less on random cuts to blurry video tapes and the wall of $10 walmart fans, it would have been a neat movie.