Intelligent sci-fi...
...so, you know, you wouldn't like it. 'Jumps the shark at the end though.
share'Jumps the shark at the end though.
I agree. I actually liked it most of the way through. (Although I do admit that, having watched several Netflix Original sci-fi movies, I had lowered my expectations somewhat.) You could tell it was low budget but I thought they did pretty well with what they had.
It completely lost its hard sci-fi cred, though, when [spoiler] a planet popped into the solar system with no apparent gravitational effect.[/spoiler]
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LOL... you guys can't be serious. This lost me WAY before your spoiler moment. This film is a travesty. Painful on pretty much every level.
The story was rudimentary at best, and *still* manages to make little sense. They do a 45-60minute build up a big sacrifice and that sacrifice amounts to nothing - had the sacrifice not been made, the outcome of the greater threat would have been no different.
The lead actress was just into the realm of watchable, but pretty much everyone else is tragically hung out to dry by poor direction. Lots of elements stolen from far better films (attempts at Interstellar styled visuals, guy in a wheelchair from Avatar getting to walk again). Much of it is shot as a documentary styled interviews, but none of those actors being interviewed delivers performances remotely close to how an interviewee actually comes across... i.e. they are all blatantly *performing dialogue*.
For the most part, the VFX were weak with the exception of the motion graphics - it looks like those elements got outsourced to someone who knows what they're doing.
The script itself is amateur... it's moments of junior-grade pseudo-science jargon that has contradictory connective tissues, sometimes within the same sentence the supposed scientist speaking them is saying. Simply put, the writer doesn't have enough grounding in science (or logic) to write a project like this, which is the ultimate betrayal of the film. The story, visuals, and acting aren't good enough to make up for that deficiency. The tacked on environmental message du jour was the perfect nail in this coffin of a film.
I could nitpick this film, but honestly, nobody has the time to write that list.
Kudos to them for actually completing a 'film', as the process of filmmaking is a difficult one. But there's nothing redeeming here. Absolute hard pass/avoid if possible, unless you're looking for a drinking game and doing a shot for every stupid thing you see or hear. #drunkin15mins