Reviews

I went into this not expecting much. I figured I'd probably wind up turning it off after the first 15 minutes, but it turned out to be better than I expected.

There is a good amount of well, played dry humor. Cena did the job you have come to expect from him. Some of the plot points were pretty awful, yet they managed to keep my interest. Juan Pablo Raba was fantastic in the part of the dictator. He played the part with a great sense of humor, and really kept the movie going. Raba is truly the only serious actor in this movie, and his skills turned it into a movie worth watching. I'm not a fan of Brie, and she didn't do anything in this to make me change my mind. Brie was simply window dressing to provide the ability for the real star, Raba, to achieve his story line.

If you like a good movie about people exploring their lives and mistakes, you will probably like this.

It is not even close to being a sci-fi. I really hate it when whoever determines movie categories has no clue what each category is. Just because a movie has a scientist or fantastical scientific theory, it doesn't make it sci-fi. They do the same thing if there is a fairy in it, or a witch or werewolf. Somehow the idiots in charge think that makes it sci-fi. Here's a clue, if it's about fairies, vampires, witches, etc. It's a FANTASY movie. Sci-fi requires a scientific theory that could even remotely possibly be true. Even if it is a long shot theory.

This is a drama about a couple of people and their problems. It is well written, and well acted. I enjoyed it more than I expected based on its five point whatever rating.

I don't know why anyone would call this movie a waste of time. I found it motivated me to better use my time. It was so slow and boring it motivated me to get off the couch, do two loads of laundry and make dinner, all while listening to this movie in the background.

I am certain the writer/director thought he was being so very clever, creating a movie with a bunch of disjointed stories in the fashion of Quinten Tarantino. Problem he is not Tarantino, and his skills are considerably less honed. In a Tarantino film the disjointed stories are compelling and complete on their own, whereas the stories in this film are plodding, uninteresting, time fillers. Tarantino created individual stories which didn't require the ending to give them meaning, it was just a bonus for the viewer. This movie however, didn't have a single compelling story in it, including the ending which was supposed to tie it all together for the viewer, but unless you are brain dead, you will have seen this ending coming from miles away, and didn't need the droning narrative at the end.

And here's a twist, the twists in the film are not twists but a straight line down a formulaic path, which is used all too often in Hollywood. Oh wait, that was no more of a twist than what this script contained.

The acting was fine, they all very convincingly portrayed their characters. The photography, locations and set decorations were also quite good. In the end I guess I have to thank the producers for financing this loser film, which so motivated me to get up from in front of the TV and accomplish mundane tasks around the house.

Forget the fact it's a low budget movie, I can deal with that. The idea that someone would travel to a parallel world to replace their dead spouse is sheer stupidity. Sure you might be able to find someone close enough to your late spouse to feel like they are the same, but you wouldn't have the same shared experiences. So how long could you fool yourself into believing your with the same person?

Aside from that fatal flaw, the script in this film was not well thought through. We drift from one poorly constructed situation to the next. The central character is supposed to be brilliant enough to construct a device which transports matter from one universe to another, but she is too much of a moron to comprehend simple reality. I know many will attribute her lack of foresight to grief, but truly brilliant people aren't that susceptible to rash emotions. That's the sort of burden born by people with much lower IQ's.

Apparently movie makers have lost all concept of what it takes to make a great superhero movie. When everyone in the movie is cast as some sort of hero, it really takes away from the gravitas of the one super hero. What's the need for the super hero, if everyone can defeat the enemy.

This movie is slow at the start, slow in the middle, and a failure in the end. The story is non-impactful to the viewer. It's impossible to become emotionally invested in the main characters, because every character is treated the same. Basically, it's the idealist version of a communist hero movie, everyone is equal, and the only thing special about the title character is some mechanical/AI enhancements. But, without everyone else, he could never have won the battle, because he is less special than everyone else, despite being the chosen one. Boring, unimaginative and cliche.

18 minutes in, there has been nothing of interest, so I started fast forwarding. 30 minutes in still garbage. 57 minutes in, still garbage. Seriously with all the people involved in this from it's writing, through the pitch meeting, on to the table read, production design, casting, story boarding, photography blocking, on and on, are you telling me nobody in all that saw what a steaming heap of garbage this thing is?

Who funded this thing, a trust fund baby high on heroine? Somebody who needed to get a massive tax write off? Either they wanted to loose money, or they just wanted to pay to hang out with Daniel for a few weeks.

Most professional critics have been extremely harsh in their reviews of this of this movie. Of course, in my opinion most professional critics are complete morons, who have no clue what it takes for a movie to be truly entertaining or inspiring.

I chose to watch this movie because I am a fan of Kunnal Nayyar from his work on The Bug Bang Theory. To be honest I was expecting to be disappointed in the movie, as so many actors who move on from hit TV shows can never seem to outgrow the characters which made them famous. That is not the case with Kunnal's performance in this movie. He created a very compelling and realistic character in his portrayal of the bookstore owner.

I am not a fan of David Arquette, Christina Hendricks, nor Lucy Hale, but they all did amazing work in this movie, portraying characters which I came to care about, which is not a normal reaction for me to any movie characters. Actually, this is the first time I have ever liked a character played by David Arquette. I believe it is the best work he has ever done. Hendricks on the other hand has played a couple characters which I have thoroughly enjoyed, and this was also one of her strongest yet. Lucy Hale, although I have always considered her a decent actress, has never stood out for me. Hale's performance here was, like her costars, very strong and compelling on a real level. I don't know the names of all the actors who portrayed Maya, but each one did a fantastic job of bringing Maya to life at each age. I found these characters so much more real than any I have ever seen in any Oscar winning movie.

Again, I'm not a professional. Like you, I'm just some poor slob who pays his hard earned money to be entertained, and gets angry when I am scammed out of my money by professionals. I can only offer my opinions as to whether or not I find a movie entertaining on a personal level. So, when I see professionals giving in depth opinions based on production quality, character development, direction, set design, blah, blah, blah, I realize they don't care at all about real entertainment. They gauge movies purely on how much they can show off their knowledge of the industry (or what knowledge they believe themselves to have), despite the fact they likely couldn't produce anything worth watching, even if given unlimited budgets and a decade to make something which is even simply tolerable.

In my life I have watched literally thousands of movies, including many of which tried to portray real life. Very few have succeeded in that endeavor. These types of movies generally bore the audience to death before the first 20 minutes have passed. This movie, however, not only succeeds, it could possibly be the best I have ever seen in making you feel it's a true story, without the slow, painstaking attempts at making it feel humdrum.

Some complain the movie jumps around too much, and doesn't dramatize enough using tortured formulaic prose, which attempt to force the viewer into unearned emotional states of caring or despair for the characters. There are no such devices used here, everything is real and earned.

If you are a person who can appreciate a movie which doesn't attempt to manipulate your emotions through overly dramatic monologues and musical scoring, then you should appreciate this gem.

The third season is even better than the first two. Kudos to Seth and his team for making the kind of sci-if show we have been waiting for since 1969. This is truly the one and only successor to Star Trek TOS.

The quality of writing is the same as every other Disney channel movie. It's not big budget, but it's not so low budget that it's horrible.

Standard tropes, standard story line, if you've watched enough movies you'll know who the "secret bad guy" is within a very short time after the movie starts.

Still, if you like Disney channel movies, this one will not disappoint. It will be exactly what you are looking for.

The only thing that bothered me is the tone deaf nature of Disney production and casting directors. They have a Cambodian mom and a white dad, who somehow managed to produce two Chinese daughters. It's really disturbing that their desire to be so inclusive, is so completely tone deaf to reality. And no, they didn't adopt, they are "royals" and an adopted daughter would not be able to inherit a throne passed through bloodline.

The actor playing the father is another Brit with an abysmal American accent. The actor playing the son is only there to titillate the female viewers, the dialog is plodding, and the plot is boring and uninspired. I got to about 25 minutes, and had to start fast forwarding just to get through this hot pile of garbage.

It was great to see Silverstone back in action. It's just too bad they didn't give her a better project.

Although Oldman managed to accomplish some of Churchill's physical mannerisms, he failed miserably at mimicking his bravado. Churchill was at times an arrogant and egotistical man, brimming with self-confidence, Oldman portrayed him as a simpering fool, who questioned his every decision, and didn't have the spine to carry conviction in any of his decisions.

It appears to me this is yet another feeble attempt, which seem so popular in todays entertainment industry, to lessen the impact created on the world by many of the great figures in history. There are those in todays media who wish to retell history in a light they believe is more favorable to their own political objectives. It is a disturbing trend, which should be met with disdain by the viewers of their fantastical imagined machinations. The best lies are those that are told with enough truth, that the gullible with swallow the lie in its entirety.

I've read several reviews that accurately and justly detail numerous flaws in the plot of this show. The one nobody seems to mention is the stupidity of the "one child" rule. If every couple (aka two people) is only allowed to have one child, the population of the station would decrease with every generation, until it gets to a point where there is only one person left. The last child of the last couple.

Not to mention that everyone who breaks ANY law is flushed out the airlock, which would also reduce the population at a considerable rate. Especially when every one of the 100 seems to have had either one or both of their parents "floated" already.

Plus, they're all mating like rabbits, as humans will tend to do when bored, so what birth control is employed to prevent unwanted pregnancies? If it's the "law" that you can only have one child, and they live in a heavily regulated and totalitarian controlled community, why wouldn't women be forced to have their tubes tied after giving birth to their first child? Why wouldn't men be forced to have a vasectomy after fathering their first child?

Granted, that's not the biggest plot hole in the show, but it definitely deserves a mention.

One last pet peeve, this is supposedly a conglomeration of multi-National space stations, yet they have Henry Ian Cusik speaking in the most horrific American accent imaginable, when they could have just let him speak with his own natural accent and it would have not only been preferable, but considerably more believable.

You'd think I would have learned after the last decade of garbage Hollywood disaster movies, that I shouldn't waste my time. But like the characters in this film, I make bad decisions, and turned this on.

Unfortunately for me, my OCD forces me to finish what I start, no matter how bad it is. It was so bad, I paused it multiple times to watch YouTube videos. Had I tried to watch it continuously to the end without interruption, I have no doubt I would have literally died of boredom.

This production is chock full of all the porn quality acting and plot points one could hope for, without any of those annoying porn quality sex scenes.

Technically, the women in the film acted well above the quality of the parts they were given, while the two male leads fell squarely within the limitations and poor quality of the characters they played.

It's almost as if the two men had written this film themselves, based purely on their lackluster sex lives, and misinformed fantasies of what real relationships consist of.

If you choose to watch it, keep the remote handy, because the impulse will fade almost immediately.

Why on earth would they describe the character as an orphaned teen, when the actress playing her is obviously almost 30?

That one fact, sums up how poorly done is every aspect of this movie.

Those who are giving this film more than 5 stars and calling it the best film ever are either, friends of the cast/crew, paid commenters, or brain dead vapid troglodytes like the roommates in the movie.

I'm not saying it was a terrible movie, because it wasn't. Yes it was slow. Yes, it was boring at times. Yes, some of the acting was an excellent representation of bad acting.

That being said, I wasn't upset that I watched the movie. It held my attention for the most part, and it had certain appeal. It's definitely not an in your face, explain every detail to the viewer sort of movie. Definitely not a film from a major studio, as the content has not been dumbed down to the level of a kindergartner for mass consumption by the lowest common denominator.

It is reminiscent of early work by Dree Hemingway's mother and aunt, both of whom I always enjoyed watching.

Given the right vehicle I believe Hemingway will be a solid actor, and a mainstay of the industry. (Although, It would have been more impressive and added authenticity if she had done her own stunt work).

The primary reason I gave it only three stars was for the really weak ending. Yes, I got the meaning of it all, but it could have ended better, and stronger. Also, the camera work and editing left much to be desired.

This episode does a poor job of reaquainting the viewer with the characters we last saw a year ago. This series consists of so much intricacy that requires undivided attention from its viewers, and when there is so much time between seasons, we the viewers need to be eased back into the story and reminded of prior goings on.

This episode jumps around a fair bit, and introduces us to the propaganda minister, who for some unknown reason is espousing the virtues of fascism, when NAZI's were actually socialists. So either the definition of socialism is not the same in this parallel world, or the writers of this show don't know the basics of history. Either way it's just another point of confusion added to an already confusing and hard to follow episode.

It's Modern Family meets Parenthood, but not as funny. (As Parenthood I mean). It tries tries desperately and fails to replicate the dynamic of Modern Family, while using the family formula from Parenthood. With the lost child who lives with mom and dad, the Claire and Phil clones with a growing family and the rest of the extended family. I just don't know how many ways I can say it was a disappointment. Brolin has never been a favorite, he makes a much better bad guy then he does a comedian. The remainder of the cast is ultimately forgettable as well, the mother is cliché and dull, the kids were given nothing to work with by the writers or the director. The story line of the first episode was boring. The writers broke it into four stories that all suffer from lack of originality, and humor. I would be shocked if this series makes it past the first few episodes.