Reviews

Brilliant escapist Sci Fi. It's difficult to fault this adventure if you have the ability to suspend disbelief with a smile. A character developing the chops to manipulate Time and Space hasn't been done so well.

To give the film some commercial enhancement, violence and action scenes are peppered throughout. There's even a twinkle of romance.

Philosophical thoughts on the mechanics of time and how it allows us to manifest into existence are welcome, and so happen to be close to the truth regarding how time generates, enables and embodies the fabric of the material dimension we exist within.

To try and find improvement for the story, I was wondering if she would have been able to mitigate the uni attack by the gangsters at the end, thus saving lives, pain and suffering. However she would've been onto that via her ability to slip throughout time and foresee the future in that there would be no to mitigate them, as the cop took care of the situation 'in time' :)

However the film would have been short of one action scene if this were so. Plus she says we never really die.

Thanks Luc, this is one of my favourites.

I appreciate what they were trying to do with this film, regarding a lot of long brooding shots. Going for a hypnotic atmosphere for the film.

Unfortunately many of the brooding shots are of the main character, who spends most of the time standing around like an expressionless zombie. Dear film makers, even though we do get an explanation for her zombie-like behaviour near the end of the film, if you wish for us to empathise with a main character, you need to write in more humanity for her, for us to connect with.

Have her doing things on screen we can relate with, both when she's by her self and with others. Just staring into space and doing nothing is devoid of humanity, thus our connection with her. Even the little girl version had minimal character development.

Fine, have her like this in small part so we know there is something different about her, but have her interact with her environment and people much more so that we can understand, journey with and feel with her.

If we don't connect to a main character, the entire film flops.

The film is also hampered by a bad sound mix, with one of the issues being unnaturally mixed in ADR, and some bad casting and acting. Some actors do a great job, like her bearded assistant, but most actors don't look or behave well for the part they were chosen for.

Twice, I had to laugh, when lieutenant walks into frame to summon another character. One at 00.11.00 minutes and worse instance of it at 00.51.16. This soldier's comedic overacting would suit a skit in the 'Benny Hill Show' or the 'Goodies'.

Some of the digital compositing is bad and distracting. The last example I remember is the main character standing outside of her old home with a train passing in the background. There were some worse ones than this. Did the senior compositor go to lunch and let a student take care of this and the other bad composites? Seriously. I only say this as there are other shots, namely with the giant plant thing, which are superbly composited.

The musical score is good as is the 'slow seeding' concept of 'alien conquest', though how that thing grew unnoticed, alone, ruins the credibility of the film. It's unbelievable that a plant could grow to gargantuan size unnoticed while being monitored by military assets. It's the plot hole of plot holes, and removes one from any trance-like connection with the film which one might have gained previously.

To get that large so quickly, justify this with your writing. For example, in the scene when the main character is looking at the seedling with her head on the ground, if she and we had of observed that plant grow a few inches or a few feet within the duration of that scene, then this might go to justify how the plant could have possibly shot up so fast. But in this scene it stays the same size. So why blow that opportunity to try and cover this plot hole?

I write all of this so you the filmmakers can do better next time, as there is talent here. Quite a lot of talented potential. Very good looking cinematography too. But improve your writing skills, or collaborate with other writers with successful histories by running your script by them and listening to them, or get them to collaborate, or get someone else to write your story. And hire a more seasoned casting artist. Casting is a specialised skill. Successful filmmakers hire the best.

Sci-fi done well with mind blowing concepts. What is missing for me is more about the nature of the future people we get hints of at the end. It's probable they are evolved humans. But could have alien people and humans been working together by then? Writers, let us know what has happened. It's fine for us to use imagination, but it's more satisfying as a viewer 'knowing' the answers

The future man who came down first, how many 1000's of years evolution had he had compared with the final people? So much to wonder about with this story. To the writer's, thanks for the top rate story and it's believable execution. There could be a sequel to this. You're clever enough to figure one out.

As well as the script and VFX, the score was great. And thank you for populating the cast with some really beautiful women.

Good looking film, but unbelievable as to him finding her. Right, it could just be random. But a bit more extrapolation on the pathway, what ever is was, would be good.

Or just his part of the situation, how did he track her? Was he the one in the roof at the start? How did he get to the roof? If they had more of Jack monster's perspective in this it would have been quite powerful. Some scenes of him looking for her etc. Too much of a stretch in the realistic universe they present.

I also wonder why he attacked the vehicle if he wished her no harm. Perhaps his monster side has mood swings.

Apart from this it's a well rounded film. Realistic all the way.

From the start this is good, and the first half good. Great tension build up and superb acting, particularly form the young woman. But the ending area?

Though the very ending speaks of non-human intervention of some type, that's all we are given. The degree of detail we are given in the ending is: non-human intervention of some kind. That's it. No further elaboration. So, are they aliens, demons, lagoon creatures, clones, body snatchers, parasites, swamp zombies, mound people ...

With such in-conclusion, I feel I wasted my time. I want to know what happened. But, we aren't told. What purpose? Breeding? Perhaps, but it's unclear. And why? Why are they doing what they do?

The filmmakers have perhaps embedded some deep cryptic clues, which I can't be bothered to go back and decipher, because I'm so disappointed and un-intrigued after this ending. Anyone could work out the problem here with the story. Pity, and the first 3/4 had so much promise. Four stars for that.

This is quite a good idea, but one needs to fill in the blanks with ones own imagination, to a very large degree.

For example, when the police come at the end, what proof did the good guys have of the bad guys being bad? They would have needed a recording device at that meeting at least to provide evidence, to tie the villains together as a group in addition to the evidence at the building, with the brainwashing image-files and rigged wiring. Yet no recording device or even a hint of one were apparent. This is a major gap that the viewer must fill at their own discretion.

What is the scratching the neck about? Are people programmed to do this, or are they implanted? Again, absolutely no enlightenment is given.

And the Cussak character, how the hell did he end up like he did? He was armed. So? We don't know. Doesn't make sense why he would sacrifice himself at that precise time too. Where is his character development to justify his sacrifice? Pretty much totally missing.

The film needed a better sound mix too. Some dialogue, way too quiet.

The film kept me riveted until the end, but the end was an utter disappointment. Perhaps the next film will be completed.

The new romances in this were emotionally inaccessible for me. One can observe the machinations of love in play, but the 'new' connections in the story were empty of true love and unconvincing. At no point did I feel emotional about these connections, like I did successfully in The Titanic for example, where the romance is fleshed out well and is engaging.

I don't think it's the fault of the actors. More the script and direction, with the people behind these tasks not understanding what it takes to create interactions and develop the needed romantic continuity which will generate empathy and investment from the audience into a romance on screen. If this had of worked, the romances would've pulled the story together and made the series powerful.

The casting, the choice of actors, these may also have been an issue, or the issue. Where we have highly skilled actors but they just don't have that matching compatible chemistry to connect with each other on screen well enough.

I enjoyed seeing the medieval hicks part, the superstitious folk populating the town and their attitudes and actions. It's relieving that there was no witch-hunt style heavy violence in this.

Entertaining and brutal, but oh my the writers of this kept many of the characters carrying out exquisitely stupid decisions, which was highly frustrating, and I almost gave up many times for how illogical things could get.

For example, if you have a few sighted people in an otherwise blind stone-age world, train them up with the bow and arrow! Then, when the blind evil enemy soldiers escape with cartloads of bombs, and those evil blind soldiers are only equipped with swords, one should hang back, and one by one, pick ALL of them off with arrows, with no chance of harm coming to you because you can keep your distance, and they are blind and only have swords.

But no, the writers had to allow the enemy to reach the good guys city, at the expense of the logical thing to do which would be to carry out the above mentioned strategy. Drag out the show to allow for more drama and conflict. This is just one example of many happenings I could describe.

Highly frustrating.

Some of the acting was good, sets and design good, sound good and enough emotional drama and battles to overcome this overwhelming quantity of bad logic ... just!