Firstly, if anyone can even reach the midpoint without fast-forwarding, you are a champ. No normal or sane person can sit through the entire 2 hours of this nonsense.
This is director, producer, editor, actor etc... Ali Pourahmad's first attempt at filmmaking, and I think he should change hobbies. What you will notice in the description of this (for the lack of a better word) "film", is that there's no writing credit. That's because there is no story in the painstaking 2 hour long runtime. Pourahmad should also remove his name from Editor, as I saw zero editing. Had there been any, this nonsense should have had 75% of the runtime cut out, and left with a short visually stunning music video.
Almost every scene is ridiculously long and mostly unnecessary with zero narrative. The dialogue is the absolute worst I have ever heard, that you will either cringe or die of laughter. The acting is like a dad from the 80's forcing his family to say something, anything, for the VHS camcorder he just purchased. And most of the filming and sound seems from the 80's as well. In some scenes with multiple (for the lack of a better word) "actors", one or two out of the three in a scene are blurred so bad, I'm certain they were green-screened in using 80's GS technology.
In the beginning, you will feel like you're watching your skilless gamer friend playing the original PC game Doom. Just a lot of random scenes and a lot of walking around all over the place for nothing. Then all of a sudden BOOM!, an alien will appear just waving its tentacles around for about 5 minutes. Then some random robots just looking at a screen pressing buttons for 5 minutes, again, nothing being narrated and zero dialogue. Then a bunch of soldiers walking around aimlessly inside a ship taking turns who will lead the walking, blurting lame dialogue. Pourahmad should also remove his name as director, as there was zero direction to the scenes or storyline, and zero direction to any cast member.
So what we have here, it seems, is an older sci-fi failed short movie, a presentation of a students old 90's CGI talents, a presentation of a freshly graduated CG-VFX student, and recent video clips of impressive model and set designs - randomly chopped and tapped together, and played out for 2 hours, with an impressive score. As a huge fan of sci-fi, and a sucker for stunning visuals and set designs, once I made it to just before the 1 hour mark (yes, I was that patient waiting for something to happen), all I did was ffwd to all the epic and stunning visuals of spacecrafts and robot scenes, viewing them in awe with the awesome fitting score. If I have time, I may just clip out all those breathtaking elements, edit them together for maybe 30-40 mins of viewing, and simply enjoy the eye candy and awesome score, or mute the volume and play my favorite melodic electronic music in the background.
I'd even go as far to say the better HQ visuals were some of the best I've ever seen, and should be submitted for awards consideration to whoever created them. Those stunning and breathtaking visuals are the only reason I'm giving this film a generous 3/10, otherwise even a 1 would be too generous for this nonsense. I mean even the title is grammatically incorrect - maybe needed an apostrophe?
This is director, producer, editor, actor etc... Ali Pourahmad's first attempt at filmmaking, and I think he should change hobbies. What you will notice in the description of this (for the lack of a better word) "film", is that there's no writing credit. That's because there is no story in the painstaking 2 hour long runtime. Pourahmad should also remove his name from Editor, as I saw zero editing. Had there been any, this nonsense should have had 75% of the runtime cut out, and left with a short visually stunning music video.
Almost every scene is ridiculously long and mostly unnecessary with zero narrative. The dialogue is the absolute worst I have ever heard, that you will either cringe or die of laughter. The acting is like a dad from the 80's forcing his family to say something, anything, for the VHS camcorder he just purchased. And most of the filming and sound seems from the 80's as well. In some scenes with multiple (for the lack of a better word) "actors", one or two out of the three in a scene are blurred so bad, I'm certain they were green-screened in using 80's GS technology.
In the beginning, you will feel like you're watching your skilless gamer friend playing the original PC game Doom. Just a lot of random scenes and a lot of walking around all over the place for nothing. Then all of a sudden BOOM!, an alien will appear just waving its tentacles around for about 5 minutes. Then some random robots just looking at a screen pressing buttons for 5 minutes, again, nothing being narrated and zero dialogue. Then a bunch of soldiers walking around aimlessly inside a ship taking turns who will lead the walking, blurting lame dialogue. Pourahmad should also remove his name as director, as there was zero direction to the scenes or storyline, and zero direction to any cast member.
So what we have here, it seems, is an older sci-fi failed short movie, a presentation of a students old 90's CGI talents, a presentation of a freshly graduated CG-VFX student, and recent video clips of impressive model and set designs - randomly chopped and tapped together, and played out for 2 hours, with an impressive score. As a huge fan of sci-fi, and a sucker for stunning visuals and set designs, once I made it to just before the 1 hour mark (yes, I was that patient waiting for something to happen), all I did was ffwd to all the epic and stunning visuals of spacecrafts and robot scenes, viewing them in awe with the awesome fitting score. If I have time, I may just clip out all those breathtaking elements, edit them together for maybe 30-40 mins of viewing, and simply enjoy the eye candy and awesome score, or mute the volume and play my favorite melodic electronic music in the background.
I'd even go as far to say the better HQ visuals were some of the best I've ever seen, and should be submitted for awards consideration to whoever created them. Those stunning and breathtaking visuals are the only reason I'm giving this film a generous 3/10, otherwise even a 1 would be too generous for this nonsense. I mean even the title is grammatically incorrect - maybe needed an apostrophe?
