This movie tries to bill itself as a sci-fi survivor story, but just can't quite keep the charade going. First and foremost this film is a ponderous relationship drama. In fact, I'd argue it's a melodrama. The main character is an aloof, disconnected slacker with no more attractive qualities than his swarthy, ill shaven, casually dressed actor can bring by default. His girlfriend Maya is a needling, immature, inconsistent, over-emotional fountain of simultaneous boredom and annoyance.There is nothing to like here. The progression is simultaneously flat and instantaneous, with no actual payoff. The entire premise of the movie is thrown out in its last seconds as an elaborate symbolic representation of the characters' relationship struggle.If you enjoy sniffing your own farts and think that it's particularly engaging to point out the symbolic nature of the static on the television screen over the character's left shoulder while they try to eat pasta from an upside-down fork, this is the film for you.If you want something that isn't trying to be an over-pretentious melodrama, look elsewhere.
... View MoreIf you liked the movie Another Earth you might like this one. Like the summary states this is more about the couple's relationship and not the aliens or science fiction. We never found out if the aliens actually killed anyone or if it was just the breakdown of society. The acting was good, but there quite a bit of back and forth from the past to the present time. As the movie approached the end it became unclear to me what was reality and what was just a blurred memory of the main character. I was disappointed that we never got to see the aliens, where the other people went, and if the crazy doctor really hurt the wife or not. We watched the movie on Netflix it was only given a one star rating. Below is my rating. Acting: 4.5/5 Plot: 3/5 Cinematography: 4/5
... View MoreWhile I was initially invested in Cole and Maya's budding relationship, I too quickly became tired and irritated by their constant bickering while waiting for the sci-fi element to kick in to full gear...which it never does. There are a few tense moments where you get a taste for what this movie could have been and then? The most unforgivable, cheap, lame plot device!!! It was all a dream/hallucination! There were NO ALIENS!!!! Absolute waste of two hours of my life if, you, like me were drawn into the film by the the synopsis' promise of a "struggle to survive in a world where the human population has been left decimated after an extra-terrestrial attack".
... View MoreIf i could sum it up in a sentence, this movie has a terrible plot line and a misleading title but has good acting. I was expecting a movie to be about alien invasion, but the entire movie was about the personal life of a couple with issues. The only references to the extraterrestrial beings were essentially their floating ships. Their floating ships would just hover around doing essentially nothing. There were random dead people everywhere... The movie went back into time, went into the present, into the future, back and forth every 7-10 minutes.Not worth my Friday night, i kept expecting something to get better, but half way through the movie i started skipping forward and found that literally nothing significant happens in this movie.
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