Just Really Good Movie To Watch...............................

Bland preachy save the planet tripe. Another preachy pretend to be intelligent borefest. A film is supposed to be above all entertaining and engaging. This is neither. The characters are flat and undeveloped and generic. The dialogue is in docustyle inteview format which means you dont really get characters that go through any type of arc. I couldnt even tell you the characters names or anything about them because they are undeveloped. When I dont know anything about the characters i dont care about them. When I dont care I dont watch. The dialogue is dry and goes on about how we need to take care of the planet. They drone on with the same loopy soundtrack tune all thru the film. We get visited by aliens that bring us a new planet because we have done such a poor job of maintaining our own. They do this by somehow transporting it thru a wormhole nearby. We decide to send a human in the wormhole. To protect the human we pull its brain and plug it into a robot body. This actually makes for a cool concept that they could have made into a story of its own dealing with the character that went thru with the surgery. But its just another poorly executed plot device to move the borefest forward. If I were to describe this film I would say its Robocop mixed in with contact and the global warming preachyness of World War Z, documentary style. It sucks and anyone who thought it was intellegent and thought provoking is a moron.

A little 2001:, a little Contact with a dash of Interstellar and Arrival. The Beyond tells a story about how we as a species might react to the discovery or confirmation of intelligent life. Its not the the typical Hollywood fare. The Beyond paints a picture of how we could interact with another life form and the kinds of technologies we would need to develop to do so. The documentary style works for me because it seems like how it might happen. Its not about action or lasers or the hero that saves the day. The action in this movie is the wormhole and the formation of new planets. The heros in this film are scientist and astronauts. People who put their lives on the line to pioneer new discoveries. To me, its a smart movie that won't work for everyone but it sure worked for me.

It's a weird movie. And although it lacks any tangible structure, it's anti-climactic and I didn't really care about any of the characters, it was one of the most original films I've ever seen. There was a realness to it that transcended it's documentary-style delivery. I hope more people continue to take risks and push the boundaries with Sci-Fi.