Reviews

Something must be up with the reviews of this movie - are the paid by Amazon?! There is no way in hell that this movie deserves a rating of more than 6, and that's being generous.

The movie really is just people talking. Talking talking and more talking. People talking about things that bring absolutely nothing to the "story" (as if there even is a story here!). Then people running, walking or driving around in a very dark small town in more meaningless and very dark scenes. After running around in the dark there's more talking. Talking on the phone, talking on the radio, talking over each other.

The characters are not likeable either, very stereotypical small-town-in-the-50's. A hysterical girl and a know-it-all radio host guy. I'm not gonna give away the ending, but if you've ever watched anything remotely having to do with UFO's, you'll be yawning and wondering "is this all"? WTF? All that meaningless dialogue for hours and this is the ending?? I could've just watched an episode of X-files or whatever, big yawn and one and a half hours wasted.

The story in itself is terrible and the editing makes it even worse.

Whoever wrote the story doesn't seem to have spent more than a minute on Google looking up what "lucid dreaming" is. In this movie, it somehow means hooking yourself up to a machine to relive your memories (oh, and other peoples too!). The only connection to actual lucid dreaming is the title of the movie.

And then there's the editing. Wow. Like that time a "scientist" casually mentions "that guy does shared dreaming", and then never bothers to explain what the hell she's talking about. And the main character doesn't ask either! Or that time they - for reasons not clear - find some "murder site" in the woods with a childs toy (but apparently no body?!).

Sure, it has a twist. One that you can smell coming from miles away, but by the time it's revealed you just don't care anymore because nothing in this movie makes sense.

I'm pretty sure all of the 8-10 star reviewers were either paid or this was the first movie they ever saw in their lives. There's simply no other explanation for those reviews. Trust me - you will regret wasting your time on this piece of s**t movie.

Two times over the years I have tried to watch this movie, but I never made it more than half way through - and I almost never quit a movie.

Honestly, the raving reviews of thing is bonkers.

First, the story is incredibly unrealistic. These people carelessly jump in and out of icy water (sometimes for no apparent reason) in the middle of winter, getting their clothes soaked and never once have any problem with hypothermia. Just wait a few scenes and their thick fur clothes have magically become dry again for no apparent reason. It's as if it's written by someone who's lived their whole life in a warm climate and only seen snow, ice and winter in movies. Totally ridiculous, and this issue alone makes the movie unwatchable for me.

Next, the whole story is predictable from the first frame if you've ever seen any kind of western/revenge movie at all in your entire life. Again - it's as if the story was written by someone who's seen a few revenge westerns and decided to write their own by copy-and-paste. The whole thing is just one big Hollywood cliché.

Lastly, it's freaking boring. For some unknown reason, they decided to stretch out this unrealistic and predictable plot for almost 3 hours. Not saying it would be better even if it was shorter, but at least it would be less time wasted on this nonsense.

The only reason I'm giving it 5 stars is because I didn't watch the entire movie. Who knows, perhaps it picks up after 1:30 (when most sensible movies end)...

I found this movie quite okay while watching it.

But near the end, I started thinking more critically about it. Here come the spoilers.

They are all very concerned about that one little girl who might be blown to pieces. Well, what about the rest of the people walking around on the street? When you start thinking about it, you realize it doesn't make sense at all. It takes 50 seconds for the missile to hit, and the target is right next to a kind of busy street near a market - but if only this one little girl would move out of the way, they won't care about anyone else walking by... typical Hollywood sentimentalism.

And then there's the usual "zoom and enhance" stupidity. From what I've read about military drones, the resolution is good - good enough to see a toddler walking on the street. However, in this movie, the resolution is so great that you can identify peoples faces. Oh wait, you don't even need to see their face - seeing one side of it is enough. No wait, you don't even need that - one ear is enough! Come on, is this a science fiction movie or a contemporary war movie?

Oh, and the drones. A tiny bug with battery and antennas capable of flying around for several minutes with extreme accuracy, and streaming HD video for a very long time (and somehow it keeps streaming after the pilot went away)... Again, come on. My DJI Mini 2 has a huge heavy battery, and still it lasts only for 20 minutes.

Don't trust the ADHD-attention-letter-combination-kids posting 1-star reviews saying "it's soooooooo slow". Jesus, just stick to your superhero movies then, you're safer there.

The movie is not great, but it actually had me captivated for the first 1.5 hours. Sure, you don't have a lot of information to go on about the reasons and actors of the war, but why do you need it? I think it actually makes the movie more interesting. It seems a lot of the reviewers expect/need all movies to explain every single detail so that nothing is left to the viewers imagination. There's a war, this team of random people who are good skaters need to bring two canisters to an island - that's all you really need to know. I'm sure you can figure out/imagine that the main character was some kind of ice skating pro or local adventurer with knowledge of the archipelago. You don't need to have it spelled out for you exactly down to the last detail. If you do - again, you're better off just sticking with your usual superhero movies.

I do feel that you could smell the ending coming from 200 nautical miles away. I kept hoping for some brilliant twist at the end, but unfortunately the last part of the movie was a real stinker. It felt like another director took over and finished the movie off with weird casting choices (I'm looking at you, Admiral Nordh) and a very predictable, yet totally irrational and "on a whim" 180 degree turn of the main character.

Unfortunately, it seems everything produced by Netflix turns out to be garbage in the end, no matter how good the premise and the first part of the movie...

I usually don't write reviews, and I very rarely stop give up on a movie without finishing it. But this one just started off so cringeworthy that I couldn't make it past 15 minutes.

Actual conversation:

• "How did you get past the access control?"
• "With a zero-day exploit."
• "You know machine code?"

Now, I'm not a hacker or even know much about it. But I do know that "using a zero-day exploit" has nothing to do with knowing machine code.

I also know that one does not simply sit down in front of a computer in an unfamiliar house, type some commands for less than a minute and with ease turn off the neighbours electricity.

Couple this with an intro consisting of Anonymous-lookalikes, annoying techno music, your typical scrolling screens of random garbage characters a la The Matrix and some stereotypical hoodie-wearing people (that's how you can tell that they are hackers!). And that's just the very first few minutes of the movie...