Reviews

This is definitely not a 1 star movie, not even 2. A 6 may be fair, even a 5 and in worst cases a 4, never a 1. I'm sure that rating comes from hate due to unmet expectations but there are a million other movies way worse than this.

Alex does a good job, and the only other main character is not that bad either. I do agree the SciFi tag does not fit much. If anything, this has some fantasy features, but I do not see where the SciFi part is. The mystery and horror tags are a better fit to the movie. Overall very watchable and a fairly OK movie.

For a blair-witch kind of movie it is not as bad as I expected. The acting is great and the movie is short enough to avoid useless and endless scenes that just don't show anything.

Most of the movies use this "move the camera too fast so the viewer can't see anything". Not this one, or not so much.

I find the genre lame, and when I saw the kind of movie it was I was about to stop it right away, but gave it a chance and it is not too bad.

If you want to see, yet again, another copy of the same superhero stereotyped movie, move along. This movie is not for you.

The CGI is good, but that's not the whole point of the movie as it usually happens with every other superhero movie. There is no 20 minute long final fight with the most expected come back of the villain.

This is a movie about what would happen if true superheroes would exist, rather than a fairy tale. Great acting and a good story, well written and directed.

If you want a fairy tale, skip this, there is a whole world of choices for you to dive in.

"All revenge/horror movies are unrealistic". Yes, there's always something that makes it unrealistic, but this movie is just that from head to toes. Feels more like a comedy/gore b movie from the 80s with hilarious scenes rather than a seriously terrifying movie.

It feels unfinished. The acting is acceptable (some good, some not), the CGI is quite ok and the script is fairly good. But the movie doesn't seem to tell much and makes you feel like you just watched a series of good sketches with no connection between them. I ended up feeling I wasted my time.

Granted this movie may not be anything special and it does not deserve a great rate, but there are a lot of hater answers here which are anything but fair.

The movie is more than watchable. It's an action movie, with not that many twists, (and very few of them unexpected, if any) but has a reasonably good plot, great acting, ok special effects,...

Those rating this movie below 5 don't really know what a bad movie is. This is not. Many of the flaws some reviewers point out are actually no flaws at all.

The movie starts off with the wrong foot. At the very first scene you can see two couples running. One of the women is a little behind and the animal gets her. the other three run back, they stop (?), they see her disappear and then the scene is supposed to show you how her partner (Douglas, played by Amaury Nolasco) tries to rescue her and is being hold back by the other guy (Carl, played by Thorsten Kaye), but what you see is Douglas reaching out to Carl, they hug each other and shout "NO, NO!!!!" while he pretends to be held back.

For a moment I thought I was watching a comedy movie, here. But it is not, at least it is not trying to be.

Other than that, the movie is quite ok. Nothing fancy, nothing new and the ending will not surprise you, but very watchable. Acting is fairly good (except for the first scene), effects are working out well and it brings a nice atmosphere.

The movie is really good. It manages to keep you interested all the time. Elisabeth Moss delivers, as usual, a superb performance. From my point of view, this woman is really one of the greatest actresses of her generation.

The story is just ok. Of course, it is not new, but one would expect it to either remain true to the original or bring some new interesting twists. This movie gives none of those. It is a good movie, based on the same idea of being invisible, but that's about all it has in common with the original one.

It is a stalker thriller, a bit like Sleeping with the enemy but the enemy has an invisible suit. It feels like the movie just explored the surface of the invisibility topic. And being it a property of a suit (instead of being himself invisible) makes it less interesting to explore. There is no purpose or personal conflict with the invisibility, just a means to stalk. In the original movie, the guy is looking for the antidote, as being invisible all the time brings some good, but many bad, situations.

The movie focuses on her rather than on "The invisible man", which considering Elisabeth's performance is not such a bad idea, but at some point you may be wondering whether the invisible suit does not only make you invisible but also mute.

Overall, it is a good thriller, with great acting, good soundtrack, directing, editing and not a bad ending, but it won't leave you thinking much by the end. A bit like having a very well cooked but medium to low quality steak.

Nonetheless, it is very well cooked, so I do recommend you watch this movie.

This movie can't be seriously having this rating. The plot is ok, not an original idea, but is good enough.

The production is bad, but I'm not the kind to argue about special effects or great editing. A low budget requires some sacrifices.

But the acting ... that was too much. The acting is extremely bad. It's those kind of movies where the main actor is acting so bad you have troubles concentrating on the plot or anything else. It even makes everything else shine in contrast and you can't wait to have scenes without him, which come rarely on this movie.

A better acting could have made this a decent movie, but now it does not deserve your time.

I've seen worse movies. This one is not a punch in the face but it's till not worth the time.

The plot and the scripting are pretty plain and the editing is very poor. Some situations are simply defying physics laws and don't make any sense. The action scenes are not believable. They look fake all along.

The acting, generally, is not great but also not terrible, as other reviewers mentioned, with the exception of Daniel Joseph who may be bringing one of the worst performances you can find. His character has had his daughter kidnapped and he is absolutely inexpressive throughout the whole movie. At one point he is supposed to be crying and all he does is basically hide his face. You can't tell if he is crazy happy or outrageously angry.

I've seen worse and this is not a 1 start movie, but there's tons of better movies out there to pick before this one.

The rating of this movie (5.2 by the time I publish this review) is absolutely unfair. Many of the bad reviews complain mostly about it being in black and white, which I think if a very poor argument to downvote a title so much. They should have known that beforehand and it is very likely that most of them did not even watch the movie, otherwise why would you watch a b&w movie if you don't like b&w?

I'd give it a 7, at the bare minimum, although it may as well deserve an 8, but I'll give it a 9 to compensate the unfair haters.

The story is good, original as far as I know, and keeps your attention. The script, may not be an Oscar winning one, but it is more than decent and believable. The acting is very good, and the end is probably not the best but still reasonably good.

The build-up is not so slow (another complaint in some bad reviews). It takes less than 10 minutes to present the characters and set up the background that leads to the actual story, at which point the VR story is introduced to the viewer.

At minute 30 you already have the feeling there is more to the VR than what the main character has been told. Before the film reaches the equator, the main character is told the guys he is doing business with are fishy, and then the tension rapidly climbs-up.

Overall, a very interesting and recommended movie to watch.

The overall idea is ok, initially sounding a bit like a Bermudas triangle kind of thing, but it is very poorly executed.

The script is awful, plenty of dialogues with no sense or no purpose and a running sexist joke that reminds you of those in early 70s or 60s tv shows. As if the script was written by a 10 year old boy back in the 70s.

The script is paired up with an equally bad acting. Most of the times it feels like you are watching a lousy dub (when actors are specially bad), with almost no emotion on the words or tone and almost no facial expression, or too exaggerated.

The settings are cheesy, like taken from Star Trek (but those from the first season of the TV show). The walls and command panels look like made with cardboard and overly simplified.

The shooting is ok compared to the rest, although there is a recurrent shot from the outside of the craft that just serves to make the settings' low quality even more obvious. It serves no purpose and makes the rest look bad (like, they are supposed to be in a very bad thunderstorm, but on that shot you can barely see any rain, water or wind).

CGI is also bad, but that's something I am always willing to accept if the rest has a minimum quality. It is not this case: CGI is bad and so is everything else.

To summarize, it is a movie from 2016 that looks like a lousy B movie from the early 70s.

The script is poor, the acting is nothing to call home about.and the setup is unrealistic. Completely uninteresting.

The movie plot starts with a more or less original setup. Due to global warming humans decide to use a cooling substance on the atmosphere to reduce temperature. This does not work as expected and ends up freezing the whole world, making it uninhabitable.

About 15 years later, the only survivors live on an eternal train, that runs forever and never stops. The train is built as a full ecosystem, providing everything the people need. A cast system is also imposed to satisfy the various tasks required to keep the train going.

The whole thing is an obvious metaphor of society, reducing the world into a small environment so that we can associate the various groups of society to individuals and feel attached to them. The metaphor seems about a man on the lower levels trying to climb up the ladder of a very structured society, nothing new here.

It is not a movie with a message only, though. The acting is excellent, all of them. The setup is that of a post-apocalyptic era and the picture is very dark for most part of the film. Lots of shadows, gray, black and white, with some contrasting bright colors every now and then. The colors at times reminded me of The City of Lost Children. There's some small glances at the beautiful landscape, with gorgeous mountains packed with snow.

The directing and cutting is very nice, often combining very close up shots with wider ones in a sequence, giving more power to the great performance of actors and actresses.

Many things seem to be extinct and we are not shown a huge display of future technology. Instead it is very realistic, most of the technology we see is either very similar to what we know or simply extinct.

The characters are credible and diverse though based on classic stereotypes, portraying the lowest society levels very natural and realistic, with feelings and emotions most viewers can feel identified with. On the top of the pyramid we are shown a man with a God-like plan. On the middle levels characters are basically bureaucrats (with a touch of eccentricity).

But the movie is not about imagining a future society, it's about a group of people on the tail trying to get to the front, and this ends up meaning action, fights and violence almost every time they get to a new wagon. Yet, it is not only an action movie either. Fights don't feel like pointless visuals, but they are rather violent actions embedded in the plot.

A plot that has well built dialogs that help you understand what moves each character. It succeeds in combining moments of action with moments of drama.

The way they deploy the plot is intriguing. Only the idea of knowing what's in the front keeps you interested. There's additional things, like some strange messages appearing inside the food and finding out why some people on the tail do get called to move to the front.

The end felt partly as expected. Some general assumptions made early in the movie are in fact as they appear. But I wasn't expecting the details and the way the pieces fit together. It did surprise me and found the end had a nice twist.

I didn't have any preconception about this movie, good or bad. I watched it simply because I like thrillers and the IMDb score was relatively high.

But the acting is probably the best bit of this movie and this is not saying much.

The plot is unsurprising from the first moment, there is nothing left for the audience to guess, imagine or speculate. There is no turn or twist at any given point, so by the time you see the end you are left with an empty feeling, waiting for at least one final turn. The only surprise is to see they provide a hint for a second part ...

The start, the end and everything in between is a stereotype of a classical and unoriginal action/thriller movie. Helps kill time if you find nothing better to do, but I'd recommend you keep searching.

I'm writing this after finishing watching season 1.

First the good things. Before watching anything I was looking forward to the idea of watching a Kevin Spacey's TV show, always loved his acting skills. I haven't been let down on this. The show has great acting, him and any other actor/actress in the show are simply perfect.

The scripting is clever and good, no complaints there either. The fact that Francis takes a step away from the plot to talk directly to the viewer, as a narrator, is a nice touch and helps keep you interested, giving you a bit more insight into the plot.

But for reasons not easy to explain I ended up season 1 convinced not to watch season 2. I'm missing more complex plots. Only reading a daily newspaper one has better plots than the ones happening at House of Cards.

I was left feeling I was watching the show only for the sake of the acting and some sassy scenes here and there, and minding close to nothing about the plot nor asking myself "what will happen with ...", because in most cases it was rather obvious or uninteresting.

I never had the urge to watch the finale and when I did I saw about everything I was expecting to see. Easy to predict and not building up expectation makes it dull, even though it is beautifully executed.