The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Paradox Alice (Originally titled The Serpent, The Prophet And The Angel) is a very unusual scifi effort.It tells the story of a world stricken with a lack of clean drinking water to an extent where wars are breaking out globally because of it. A ship manned by 4 people is on a desperate mission to acquire water from space and are on their way back. On route however (No spoilers here) a very unusual event transpires that changes everything and possibly the entire fate of humanity.The "Thing" in question is very original and quite well thought through, sadly it makes for some very uncomfortable viewing.Now recently I was debating a very bizzare point in the movie industry. According to statistics around 80% of Americans identify themselves as Christian, so why is it that almost everytime A Christian is shown in a movie they are a dangerous, unhinged and/or "Wacky"? You'd think that wouldn't be the case.This movie is a perfect example. We have a devout Christian, a young man who begins obnoxious and escalates to highly dangerous and arguably the movies antagonist. He even quotes Leviticus, part of which is "'Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible; anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord is to be put to death". Now this frustrates me because people instantly slate the Quran claiming its full statements that tell it's followers to be violent and kill unbelievers while wearing lead blinkers that prevent them from acknowledging that the bible does as well.I've gone off on a tangent, my apologies. Bottom line is religious antagonists are a double edged blade. They are bad guys you want to see defeated but at the same time are far too relatable as you don't need to go far to find one in the real world.Paradox Alice has some great ideas but too much is badly flawed. Credit to the cast, credit to the filmmakers but it's one of those films that really gets under your skin more than was intended.The Good:Some great ideasLooks goodHas a certain charm to itDetestable antagonistThe Bad:That Christian kid needed dropkicking into space from the outsetPremise has some weirdly uncomfortable momentsFinale was a let downThings I Learnt From This Movie:Christian logic "If I'm a good person then God will protect me" also Christian logic "The entire earth has been destroyed and everyone is dead, god has a plan"I don't understand why stunt boobs are a thing

All I need to do is rehearse the 5 main steps of the plot line to convince you that this movie is not good:Step 1: A team of four people flies in a modest sized spaceship to Europa (a watery moon) to gather enough water to save humanity back on Earth. It appears that, in the future, people have gone thirsty and a modest sized spaceship full of water will be enough for everyone to drink. This is just dumb.Step 2: Earth gets blown up, taking some of our own moon with it. No one really knows why chunks of our moon are missing in the wake of Earth's explosion, but that's the deal.Step 3: With just three dudes left on the water tank / spaceship (the one woman on board died), one of the dudes turns into a woman. Yeah, and turning into a woman means squirming around on the floor while growing long, blonde hair and long, Lee Press On Nails. In the gender transformation scene, the Lee Press On Nails literally erupt out of the finger tips of the former dude who is now a lady.Step 4: Then the rest of the movie, roughly half of it, it dedicated to the story of another one of the crew members, a bible-thumping young guy, getting all religiously horny for his now- femme-bot crew member. His biblical horniness makes him crazy.Step 5: Oh, and the movie ends with the newbie-femme alone in the ship, pregnant, finding a new inhabitable planet to replace Earth, but being chased by a Klingony space ship.See? Paradox Alice is not good.

Being part native American, human transformations have always been something I've been intrigued by. Almost every native American folk tale (from my tribe, at least) ends in a transformation of some sort; man to animal, man to object, or even man to woman. The ladder was usually the coolest story.It seems like no films on Earth involve this idea, but it appears I have found one, Eric Dapkewicz's Paradox Alice. However, Paradox Alice is a generic independent film with nearly no redeemable qualities at all.With better writing, this film could have been worth it, but as it is, the only thing this script is good for is testing to see if your new paper shredder works. The concept of sequential hermaphroditism being a plausible way for a species to survive is compelling enough for me to suspend my disbelief, but the film gets lost in this pretzel a tangled "love" triangle. The two other males, one being a nerdy Christian mama's boy and the other being a rigid old captain, both fall for their friend who has just become a woman in an unsettling and sporadically amount of time. If my best friend turned into a woman overnight, it would be extremely hard for me to forget he was once a dude, thus, it would take years for me to actually fall for him/her, if I even ever did. But these guys forget it instantly and pursue her after just a few days. The captain character is begging for a kiss after what seems like 45 minutes.The acting is abysmal. Andrew Hernon as the captain character gives such wooden delivery in every scene of the film and he makes me want to throw my remote at the TV screen; every scene he's in is just completely torn to pieces by this guys lack of acting skill. Stewart Calhoun as the nerdy Christian somehow manages to be even worse, but it doesn't help that his character is written unbelievably poorly. The only credible actor in this film is Jeneta St Clair, who actually does a pretty good job and she deserves better work than this.The overall look of the film is very cheap. The lighting is atrocious; the film takes place in a futuristic space ship, not a damn cave. The ship computer/robot thing looks like a Sony camera with a tin can taped to the side, and I swear the film was shot in a garage. There are wooden bookshelves in the control room and the characters use futuristic visual trans-space communicating devices that look identical to iPads (gee, I wonder why?) But I will partially dismiss this because the budget was, what, $1000? If even?Most people seem to bring up the rape scene. Honestly, I did not find it that disturbing for two reasons. One: it is extremely brief...I mean, it lasts like three seconds before the male climaxes. The only thing I was thinking was "Wow, this guy finishes really fast." Two: the acting is so horrendous that it made it obvious that the rape was not real, therefore, I was not disturbed by what I was watching.The most baffling and confusing part in the film is the very ending. As the film begins to wrap up, we see the Xenomorphs (the creatures from the Alien films) aboard the ship while the ship computer spouts gibberish. This is obviously a twist ending...but what the bloody hell was the twist? Was the computer working in cahoots with the aliens the entire time? Was the gender transformation all because of the computer? Were xenomorphs on board the ship the entire film? (How else did they get on the ship at the end, besides just spontaneously appearing on board?) Most importantly, why the hell were there Xenomorphs in this film at all? Was Eric Dapkewicz trying to imply that this film is in the same universe as the Alien franchise?I've checked out the other works of Eric Dapkewicz, or "MakoDap" as he goes by on YouTube. He is the editor for several major Dreamworks films such as Flushed Away or and Puss In Boots, and those are some of the best edited animations I've ever seen. In the past, I also listened to and reviewed two albums by his band, Imaginarious, and both reviews were pretty positive. However, I have also checked out some of his stuff on YouTube. This man is very into transformations, man-to-woman specifically. He has created online comics depicting male-to-female transformations in graphic detail, most of which are sexual and contain some form of eroticism. Also on his YouTube account are the films he has directed, The Kiss and The Last Piece Standing, with Eleven being uploaded this summer. All three of these films have male-to-female transformations as the main theme. Another reoccurring plot point among nearly all of Dapkewicz's YouTube work is that after a man transforms into a woman, he/she becomes very horny and has sex with another man, usually willingly and very happy to do so. The ladder theme is very peculiar and disturbing, and it seems like this is just a masturbation fantasy for Eric Dapkewicz to get out of his system. That said, most of his YouTube work is actually crafted very well and he has a natural talent for storyboarding, but I don't recommend any of it.Overall, biggest problem with this film is that its just forgettable. The script is awful, but not so awful to the point of where its memorable. The acting terrible, but none of the actors are among the worsts (except maybe the captain). The effects are just mediocre, the sets are mediocre, the editing is mediocre, everything just blends in. Its the solid definition of a 3/10 - 4/10 film. I honestly don't recommend it even in the slightest, but I do think Eric Dapkewicz can make something good given some money, a good script and actual actors.

The usual fodder coming from Hollywood characters in movies these days.You have the "normal" atheist/agnostic people and the evil, schizophrenic religious one. The only thing that slightly redeems this film is the interesting twist on how the human race will stay in existence. Of course, this is based on anything and everything but God. Nothing new there either. I enjoyed the first part of the movie, but once the only female on board died it went straight downhill from there.Apparently, the person writing the script for the religious nut isn't very familiar with the Bible or they really believe Cain's wife was one of his sisters.However, if you like watching movies about a woman being treated as either prize or piece of meat you'll enjoy this movie more than I did.