MovieChat Forums > Half-Life (2008) Discussion > Saw this movie at Sundance, it's AWFUL.

Saw this movie at Sundance, it's AWFUL.


And before anyone asks, my dislike for it had nothing to do with it being titled Half-Life.

This movie was absolutely boring, minute for minute. I was in the premiere screening and everyone around me looked supremely bored and impatient. The movie had terrible pacing, which was only rivaled by much of the acting being simply not very good. Not everyone was a terrible actor, of course. Alexander Agate and Leonardo Nam were both excellent. However, Lee Marks and Ben Redgrave were absolutely atrocious. Most of the other actors? Mediocre at best.

Generally, the movie was somewhat unwatchable, and I find it scary that a film like this would make it into Sundance. There's nothing to watch here, no subplots worth mentioning, and nothing wraps up practically well. With the way the music would swell unnaturally at times, I expected the movie to end, and then it kept going. This happened probably 5 times.

Oh, and also? The movie looked completely average. Good colors, nothing over or under exposed, but absolutely nothing about it felt inspiring.

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You appear to be on a mission to bad mouth this film--review, multiple postings, etc.

We get it, you didn't like it. But apparently you're out-voted...but I don't see a need to go on and on.

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I think you forgot to bring your glasses and hearing aid ... because it was an amazing film from begining to end , nuff said.

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boo, it sucks...no aliens no guns, Gordan freeman looked like a little kid!, lol JK

I <3 Spell check

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They forgot to bring Gordon's glasses. That really ruined the film for me. He doesn't have perfect eyesight, you know!

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This was worst movie I have ever seen, totally sucked. It is awful, as poster said, I wanted to fast forward through it, but was watching with someone waiting for anything interesting to happen. After, they said I should have fast forwarded it. There was not a two minute piece of anything interesting in it.

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I completely agree with you. The makers of this movie took themselves very seriously for amateurish tripe.

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