I have watched plenty of low and no budget movies in my time, but the easiest way to summarize this movie is: "How the hell does it have a >7 star review? JUST HOW???"
I can forgive the plot holes in the story, most likely written by one person or a very small group of writers. The story can be easily forgiven as long as it has some interesting concepts to hold interest: this is maybe sort of there if you look REALLY REALLY hard?
The acting is pretty bad, which is expected of low/no budget movies. This is easily overlookable for anyone that isn't expecting someone thats not A-tier talent to have good, consistent acting. The acting isn't the worst I've seen but its far from good.
The video editing is probably the best part of the movie, shots that seem like they should make sense although they are maybe not quite where they should be. It feels like a young editor trying their best with what they have to work with and honestly i can say that they did the best they probably could with it.
All of this leads to the absolute worst part of the whole movie: The audio.
The volume levels and gain are totally inconsistent even from one shot in the same scene to the next. There are plenty of high priced audio equipment and i understand the budget probably wasn't there, but there are cheaper alternatives that could have worked better. Parts of this movie (like every scene when they're in the car) sound like they were recorded by one of the actor's phones placed at the bottom of a pringles can.
I wouldn't just give this a low rating, i would rate it as utterly unwatchable and say that anyone looking at these reviews before watching the movie has already wasted more time than they should for this movie.
I can forgive the plot holes in the story, most likely written by one person or a very small group of writers. The story can be easily forgiven as long as it has some interesting concepts to hold interest: this is maybe sort of there if you look REALLY REALLY hard?
The acting is pretty bad, which is expected of low/no budget movies. This is easily overlookable for anyone that isn't expecting someone thats not A-tier talent to have good, consistent acting. The acting isn't the worst I've seen but its far from good.
The video editing is probably the best part of the movie, shots that seem like they should make sense although they are maybe not quite where they should be. It feels like a young editor trying their best with what they have to work with and honestly i can say that they did the best they probably could with it.
All of this leads to the absolute worst part of the whole movie: The audio.
The volume levels and gain are totally inconsistent even from one shot in the same scene to the next. There are plenty of high priced audio equipment and i understand the budget probably wasn't there, but there are cheaper alternatives that could have worked better. Parts of this movie (like every scene when they're in the car) sound like they were recorded by one of the actor's phones placed at the bottom of a pringles can.
I wouldn't just give this a low rating, i would rate it as utterly unwatchable and say that anyone looking at these reviews before watching the movie has already wasted more time than they should for this movie.