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It was a really interesting concept with the split personality angle but difficult to grasp the thread of what was happening for much of the film. This would have been fine if you were invested in the characters but they were hard to root for as their motivations just did not seem convincing. I didn't really believe in the protaganists passionate, single minded pursuit of "the work" nor his partner's total commitment to stick by him in the most extreme circumstances. A great example of how to execute this kind of story really well is Shane Carruth's 2004 film 'Primer' and although Minor Premise evoked some aspects of that film it was much less enjoyable, for me.

Neuroscientist Ethan Kocher attempts to continue his father's work in the study of brain patterns. However, when he carries out an experiment on himself he finds that his brain has been divided into several distinct personalities (one particular personality is a dangerous one). This isn't the only concern to Ethan though as he soon learns that he must try and reverse the procedure as soon as possible before his brain is destroyed completely...

Despite its short running time, Minor Premise does take a bit of time to get going (the start is filled with seminars and mind-boggling jargon which I suspect will go over some people's heads). It improves ever so slightly once Ethan starts to focus on his father's work. Sadly though, a lot of the time we're just seeing fleeting moments of Ethan's varying personalities and they never seem to get explored in any kind of depth (this is a problem inherent in making a film focusing on multiple personalities). For this reason, I never found the film to be particularly involving; if anything it's repetitive and quite boring.

Lead actors Sathya Sridharan and Paton Ashbrook give reasonable performances, but their efforts are mostly wasted in something as dreary as this. I would have preferred it if Ethan's 'normal' personality had a bit more charisma, charm and likeability as at the very least the film would have given us someone to root for, but I just found myself not really caring here.

In short then, Minor Premise is an interesting idea mostly wasted due to its lack of depth and repetitive nature which made the film tedious more than anything else.

I'm much more interested in the genre when it trades in big ideas over big effects and Minor Premise delivers this in spades. You've just got to marvel at the creativity involved in conjuring up a scenario where the brain's hemisphere's are split into ten separate personalities in a chess mach against each other. They mine this concept for an effective race against time thriller that makes the most out of it's minimalist setting.

Sathya Sridharan's delivery is on point, but also a little understated, as many of the sub-personalities are never even fully explored. You can only imagine what would happened were the role given to someone like Jim Carrey, and while an over the top performance may have been more impressive, it would likely border on parody.

For such a heady film, it's kind of hard not to overthink the glaring flaws in logic it stumbles through along the way. Sure, such an outlandish premise requires a little willing suspension of disbelief, but one can't help but feel they could have tightened up some of the details. It's not enough to derail the train for me, but if you get hung up on the little things, there's sure to be a couple that rub you the wrong way.

**** "SPOILER / ONLY RELAVENT IF YOU'VE SEEN THE FILM" SECTION****

We're expected to believe each personality accomplishes everything within 6 minutes? One of the personalities buys and installs a security camera, in 6 minutes? It would take longer than that waiting in line at the store. Why didn't they take any precautions to keep the more erratic personalities away from the irreplaceable, life altering equipment? He just leaves the embodiment of anger, prone to smashing things, in a room with his life's work, like there's no alternative? The way they treat having an equation like some sort of secret password/skeleton key? I'm no neuroscientist, but I doubt they're all just one line of algebra away from taping into the inner mechanics of the brain. Honestly, the whole thing is preposterous really, and for the most part, I'm all for it, I just needed to vent a few gripes.

I'm not sure what the point of this movie was. I really did not enjoy it. Tedious and seemed much longer than the actual run time. Not sure why so many people found this to be a good movie.

Minor Premise: In ways a bit like Split because neuro-scientist has split his consciousness into ten different parts, Trouble is he did it deliberately to troubleshoot a memory editing device , the different segments control him for six minutes at a time. Leaving him with blackouts, some his personalities are creative others are violent. This affects his lif and continuing grants as a researcher, his relationships and even his continued existence. The editing is good ar tines especially when he tries to get the maths of his experimental machine to work out. But it can also be confusing as it chops and cuts between timelines. Pay close attention. To this interesting SF tale about memory and consciousness.. Directed by Eric Schultz in his directorial debut. He co-wrote the script alongside Justin Moretto and Thomas Torrey. 7/10.

I can't understand the amazing reviews on this. I couldn't even finish this film. The plot was weak, horrible acting. It was as if we watching someone who was so bored by lockdown that they were trying anything to get through but for us the viewers it was irritating and boring.

It is very wonderfull to watch this.this movie is very entertaining and thirilling.

Hello scifi lovers, I saw this flick last night , I was curious mainly because de good reviews here, but couldn´t finish, I coud no make it though the first 30 minutes. It's so difficult to follow, everything is a mess though the director makes some ineffective attemps to clarify things. You will get mess up with the neuroscience jargon, the formulas, the whole context is so complex. If you are lucky you might grasp some of the thread of the story and try to follow it but it is so demanding intellectually thay eventually you get tired and bored. When a movie becomes causes the same degree of tension as a math exam then it is no entertainment, it becomes a torture labeled as art. minor premis, minor entertainment

I'm a screenwriter and this flick really stunned me. Totally original, compelling sci-fi from an Indy studio that focused on script and story, not CGI. Really impressive work. Finely drawn characters and grade A performances from the whole cast and the director, too. It's up there with PRIMER and INTACTO.

A great movie. I like it. And who does not, you just did not understand him.

Mediocre horror movie of 2020. The protagonist does not have the air of a scientist or an acting qualification. The subject is also mediocre. If you change the personality every 6 minutes, you will explode. While watching, I waited patiently to see how this nonsense would end. But the movie didn't seem to end. As for the topic briefly:

His son continues the project that his father carried out before. The essence of the project is that the brain can be traced by recording memories and emotions. But his son plans to increase the capacity of the brain by developing it. The first one tries itself and ultimately splits into a shape that reveals 10 different states.

The movie shows a woman and a man who do science on their own from the middle to the end. But it's really boring.

There is no sex or nudity in the movie. There is one very short masturbation scene. There is also a very short foot fetish scene.

The rating of the movie is inflated.

A troubled young brillilant neuroscient, apparently building on his father's work of penetrating into human memory, gets a grant and experiments on himself in his basement. Instead unlocking the secrets of consiousness, he comes to fraction off about eight or so different aspects of his own psychic make up. In the film, he cycles through them in regular order until they reassmble for a short time into one integrated personality. Think of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde times four. He enlist the help of a friend to video tape him and track the cycle.

Even in the most skilful hands, it's going to very difficult produce a story that avoids massive confusion in the audience about what's going on and why, let alone develop characters that aren't didactic sock puppets for the underlying premise.

The quality of the acting is superb, as is the overall production value. Where it falls apart is that it doesn't have a story to tie it together and give it continuity. It's one scene stictched to another, that gave me the feeling that the sceneplay was being written during production.

The result is an interesting failure, but one that promises better work in the future.

Minor Premise was well titled as thats exactly how this film was. A movie with a minor premise that did not really go beyond that. It felt as though it was a drug induced vision and nothing was really happening. The premise of this movie that there was though is that its about a scientist whos experiment he wants to do again and find out the reason why things happened. I dont think there was anything wrong with the main two characters in this as both of them were pretty decent and watchable, just a shame the movie was not. Overall theres not much I can say about this it was there to watch but it was just too odd to make it good and everything didnt structually make a good movie.

This movie is really fantastic, it has its own flavor. The story of this movie was superb, I will strongly recommend you to see this movie. Very interesting and suspenseful. Keep watching...

Just not twisty enough.

I liked Sathya Sridharan's perfomance as Ethan. But, while this strives to be a sci-fi thriller, it is simply just not twisty enough. (Indeed, I think there is only really one twist and that is not particularly satisfying.)

Even the ending is pretty predictable. I guess nobody really wants to see a straightforward ending, but the ending here is a little too obvious to be enjoyable. (There is an element of ambiguity to the ending, but it's not made as ambiguous as it might perhaps have been.)

So, it wasn't terrible and I don't massively regret watching it, but I couldn't recommend it to anyone else.

I'm not sure if this film is very, very smart or very, very stupid, which probably says more about me than the film. I will say one thing definitively and that is it's fairly intriguing if you let yourself get into it. The lead actor, and more or less the whole show with one smaller exception, is played by an actor who seemed so familiar to me yet there is nothing in his credits that I have seen. His name is Sathya Sridharan this is a whale of a role for any actor and he mostly pulls it off. This low budget budget film, and it shows now and then, is about a man dealing with 10 aspects of his consciousness as he has separated them from being one entity. Beyond this intricate scenario he changes from one aspect to another every 6 minutes. So we see him jumping from apathy, exuberance, anger, psychosis, etc. He is sometimes at war with himself somewhat like a split personality. While a lot of this is very interesting some of it is not very clear at times particularly the time jumping. He has brought this dilemma on to himself by following in the footsteps of his father who pops up every now and then as well though I'm not so sure how much this character is needed. As an on and off assistant to him in all of this is his very patient ex-girlfriend who is the one exception that I mentioned. This will either be boring, nonsense or intriguing depending upon the individual watching. I suspect that the first choice will be the most common, but for serious sci-fi buffs you probably want to take a peek at this.

Didn't know what to expect going in-the beginning threw you into the plot right away, but by the end of the film I didn't really miss the usual extra exposition & setup. "Minor Premise" was very creative with lots of Memento vibes and phenomenal cinematography.

It was interesting to watch the movie, but unfortunately at one timea.

The plot was great. It kept my wife and I guessing until the very end. Definitely very interesting and suspenseful. worth a watch.

Wow! Felt like I was watching Momento again for the first time. Thought the premise would be very difficult to pull off for the lead but he nailed it and the supporting cast fit in perfectly. Awesome story!