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Please, don't compare the utterly pointless and miasmic 'Beyond' with the excellent 'The Walking Dead.' While both are melodramas, TWD has well-developed characters and believable story arcs that make it re-watchable. Beyond has neither, plus it's barely watchable the first time around. Yes, there was symbolism, but symbolism alone does not a movie make! Beyond has all the creativity of a paint by numbers coloring book. From the very first unbelievable 'death defying' act, to the mindless wilderness wandering, to the exasperating and muddled flashbacks, to the final absurd ending it's a convoluted and inconsistent mess of epic proportions. Continuity was thrown out the window! Quite possibly it's the worst movie that I have ever seen and I've over 60 years of movie theater, TV and the Syfy Channel experience to reference. The only thing sci-fi about Beyond is the presence of space craft as seen on the cover. { SPOILER ALERT: it's a delusion (as apposed to illusion which it is not since it all takes place in his head).} The symbolism is heavy-handed, the special effects are high school level, the direction is confused, the cinematography is bland, the acting is wooden, the plot is practically non-existent. Once you know what's going on you will ask yourself: 'WTF?' If you are not annoyed and if you actually enjoyed this dreck of a movie then your expectations must not have been that high in the first place. It's a story that only dreams that it had 1/10th of the intelligence, suspense and compassion of TWD.
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