First of all, I am in love with sci-fi thrillers and all that dark fantasy stuff is my favorite dish. So, I must say that the main idea of the story is okayish, as it might seem interesting for someone who never saw anything similar before, but I did see this idea play out before plenty of times, so I saw that main twist coming literally from the first moments of the movie (even though I put the movie on randomly and I never read the annotation or watch trailer, I guess the name of the movie was the ultimate precursor to the whole story and gave it away in my case).
I initially liked the atmosphere and the setting, so I thought I'd give it a chance and see it through. As it turned out there is very little emphasis on that throughout the movie which is a bummer. Nature and world were left unexplored (I mean there are some attempts and some views are great, but there is no emphasis or relation to the initial idea, which just makes it obsolete), even though there were plenty of chances and possibilities to do it right, in my humble opinion.
Same thing with the characters. During first few conversations I thought this would be a movie that might do a good job exploring its characters. Yet all the philosophical mightiness was gone in an instant once the introduction phase ended, characters quickly dropped their facade and became irrational, childish and borderline tragically stupid to favor the development of the plot.
We basically end up with no likable characters a viewer could invest their trust in.
Then the pace of the movie. If it was taking advantage of that slow burn, it might've been good. But as I already mentioned, it doesn't happen.
Once again, this might be a mind-blowing sci-fi thriller for someone who has zero to none experience with sci-fi thrillers in their life. But I saw a lot of those and for me this one is predictable, boring and also kind of pretentious. I mean, it's kind of overpromises a lot in the beginning, then rapidly drops the level of consciousness and reasoning to the ground. Ends up being too blunt.
I wanted to enjoy the movie, but I cannot say I did. Unfortunately. An honest attempt though.
I initially liked the atmosphere and the setting, so I thought I'd give it a chance and see it through. As it turned out there is very little emphasis on that throughout the movie which is a bummer. Nature and world were left unexplored (I mean there are some attempts and some views are great, but there is no emphasis or relation to the initial idea, which just makes it obsolete), even though there were plenty of chances and possibilities to do it right, in my humble opinion.
Same thing with the characters. During first few conversations I thought this would be a movie that might do a good job exploring its characters. Yet all the philosophical mightiness was gone in an instant once the introduction phase ended, characters quickly dropped their facade and became irrational, childish and borderline tragically stupid to favor the development of the plot.
We basically end up with no likable characters a viewer could invest their trust in.
Then the pace of the movie. If it was taking advantage of that slow burn, it might've been good. But as I already mentioned, it doesn't happen.
Once again, this might be a mind-blowing sci-fi thriller for someone who has zero to none experience with sci-fi thrillers in their life. But I saw a lot of those and for me this one is predictable, boring and also kind of pretentious. I mean, it's kind of overpromises a lot in the beginning, then rapidly drops the level of consciousness and reasoning to the ground. Ends up being too blunt.
I wanted to enjoy the movie, but I cannot say I did. Unfortunately. An honest attempt though.
