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4/10
Too esoteric
wbagot127 February 2024
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I didn't expect much as I was pretty sure it was one of those shoestring home shot movies. I recently watched Gabriel which was inexpensive, and frankly was a better movie. I thought this was filmed in Australia or New Zealand and was surprised it was filmed in the United States.

The reality that the film tries to create doesn't make much sense. The point honed in on is that the universe creates parts of itself to experience life so it can learn about itself. Okay, but after 14 billion years, how long does it take to learn?

We are just dust, the temporary expression of this desire to learn that passes back on into nothingness. There may have been something in there too about the strongest force being love. It was hard to tell.

The main character has found the love of his life and they're going to get married, but he has to go into space for 7 years to a worm hole and find out if we are more than dust. It's not really explained how this will give him the answer. The mission is one that was tried by his father earlier and he was lost forever, but this time they think they've got it. It doesn't work and he's lost forever too, but signals are being sent to earth and she's still pining for him even though she's going to marry a new man, and the fact that he left her for at least 7 years on something he knew had never been successfully done doesn't seem to impact her holding out for him either.

It turns out there are earths all over the universe, apparently created by the universe as part of its 14 billion year road of self discovery. He could just stay on one of these alternate earths where people have alternate timelines and time moves at different rates. They're also the ones that created the wormhole, somehow, even though they look just like us and have our same level of development and even the same people, except there's also a spaceship in the air.

It's never explained how this whole endeavor was supposed to answer whether we're dust. There's never any mention of theologians or going to them for perspectives on the soul or the meaning of life. It's 7 years in space or bust.

In the end he goes back to his earth, finds 80 years have passed and it's a flaming burned out world, and that's it. He walks into space in his suit until he runs out of air or something like that. I'm not sure what the universe learned about life from him, but hopefully it's important.
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2/10
A real stretch that failed
kirachloe16 February 2024
This movie tries to be so artistly highbrow and fails miserably. The writer was being too intellectual for their own good, making a move with way too many inferences that just aren't supported, either by the script or the presentation. It appears the actors tried to make this work, but the rest of the movie did not support this. The directing/scene setups were just not there. The camera work was barely better than amateurish. I am assuming the bare scenes were an attempt to continue with this eerie, academic, mood of the movie, but that failed also. And all the flash backs and scene jumps just make for a disjointed movie that is incredibly hard to follow and enjoy. I can't give a 1 star as it appears there was effort here, but so poorly focused a 2 is the best I can give.
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1/10
Awful
jhr20126 September 2023
Caught this one on Tubi and wish I didn't.

I started watching it and got too far in to turn it off, although I should have. The plot is weird and the acting is atrocious.

It tries to be cerebral like a lot of space movies but fails miserably. Also the timeline jumps around. Far too many flashbacks that make no sense.

Lots of questions as well. Who built the spaceship and is responsible for the trip? Why travel to Saturn? What is the purpose of the trip? What's the significance of the astronauts father? What was his mission?

I'm giving this a rating of 1 although 0 would be more appropriate.
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9/10
Space Exploration from A Different Point of View
fleet20831 February 2024
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Anger expressed within the first ten minutes of dialogue turns me off. The movie has been made for immature minds needing a hook to catch their attention; I'll switch to another movie immediately.

In this, the anger was brief and I gave the film a chance to show itself more fully.

An astronaut flies a mission to a worm hole beyond Saturn to seek out his father who went before but never returned. Seven cryogenic-induced sleep years out, one year to observe, two years to debrief and seven sleep-filled years to return...and he was recently engaged to a wonderful woman.

It seemed cruel, to me, to become emotionally involved with someone considering such a future, but she takes it rather well.

And then the theme becomes clear after he meets his father and the storyline becomes one that I've never encountered in 70 odd years of loving the science-fiction genre.

In a four star rating system, I give 2 stars just for being different and fresh (which gets harder as you age).

But in IMDb's 10 star system, I give it an honest 9 stars! I'm buying my own copy as soon as available for my library.

But then, I'm a movie-lover, not a critic.
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