PARADOX ALICE is a typical indie drama with a science fiction backdrop. The main characters are on a spaceship heading into the deepest reaches of space to carry out their mission. The thrust of the film is on human drama at all times which makes this a humdrum exercise in filmmaking. The characters sit around in dingy locations and converse for hours with little else going on. There's no lousy CGI which is a good thing but the setting is only half convincing. Still, it's better than the non-existent story complete with dull characters and their heartache that never really proves all that affecting.

All I need to do is rehearse the 5 main steps of the plot line to convince you that this movie is not good:Step 1: A team of four people flies in a modest sized spaceship to Europa (a watery moon) to gather enough water to save humanity back on Earth. It appears that, in the future, people have gone thirsty and a modest sized spaceship full of water will be enough for everyone to drink. This is just dumb.Step 2: Earth gets blown up, taking some of our own moon with it. No one really knows why chunks of our moon are missing in the wake of Earth's explosion, but that's the deal.Step 3: With just three dudes left on the water tank / spaceship (the one woman on board died), one of the dudes turns into a woman. Yeah, and turning into a woman means squirming around on the floor while growing long, blonde hair and long, Lee Press On Nails. In the gender transformation scene, the Lee Press On Nails literally erupt out of the finger tips of the former dude who is now a lady.Step 4: Then the rest of the movie, roughly half of it, it dedicated to the story of another one of the crew members, a bible-thumping young guy, getting all religiously horny for his now- femme-bot crew member. His biblical horniness makes him crazy.Step 5: Oh, and the movie ends with the newbie-femme alone in the ship, pregnant, finding a new inhabitable planet to replace Earth, but being chased by a Klingony space ship.See? Paradox Alice is not good.

Paradox Alice one of the deepest movies I've seen, and the writing is excellent. It reminds me of "No Exit" the Existential literary work of Jean-Paul Sartre. The characters are complex depiction of religious zealotry in a high-tech future is brilliant.The movie is written and produced by some people who work in Hollywood who decided to get together and just do a movie on their own. It's atypical of Hollywood cookie-cutter formulatic story lines. This movie isn't for everyone. The themes are mature, but well-done in an apocalyptic setting. While it's not chock full of exploding aliens and other such effects, the cinematics are strong and the writing really makes this movie. It kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish.

The description of this "movie" is very deceptive as it describes itself as being a sci-fi movie. However, other than the location and initial portion of the movie it has very little to actually do with sci-fi. The vast majority of the "movie" is a sermon on how god has a plan for all of us and that you should believe in god and without god there is no salvation and so on. "spoiler alert" <- Site necessityThen the movie continues on to depict violence towards the assumed last remaining woman, an attempt to brainwash her, and finally followed up by an equally distasteful and offensive rape scene, all under the premise that it's okay because it's "god's plan" for them.When there is an absolute necessity for something like a rape scene either because of depiction of true events or because it's absolutely critical then while it may be an overall offensive addition it is there because it's absolutely necessary, and often times film makers will mention it happening and avoid showing it. In this movie is wasn't necessary at all, in fact there were numerous ways that it could have been completely avoided or reworked to be only an attempted rape. The only apparent reason why this scene was added to the movie was to bolster the preaching that god punishes those who don't accept him into their lives. I think it's important to state that I'm not anti-religious, I personally belief that everyone has the right to belief in whatever they want.