Stephanie
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
karmauk
Okay, so I watched this film based on the IMDb rating, (at this point, roughly 1300 votes giving a 7.2 rating). After watching maybe 30 seconds, I pressed pause in confusion. You know how when you watch a film, and it's immediately apparent that it's not as good as you thought it was going to be? This was definitely one of those occasions. So, I returned to IMDb to read the reviews. Having done that, one might conclude that it's one of those classic 'love it/hate it' scenarios - but then I noticed something that seemed a little odd to me. All of the positive reviews appeared to contain the same, or similar, English grammar/syntax errors. Of course, one would never convict on suspicion alone, my suspicion is however, that they're all written by the same person. Because of that, after years of using IMDb, I wanted to write a review. But wait, I thought, I should at least give the film a chance before coming on here to condemn it. So I started watching again.I'm proud to say I managed to watch a whole hour - even though I wanted to turn it off after the first five minute opening scene, and nothing that happened in the subsequent 55 min's did anything other than reinforce that urge. It's bad. It's really, really bad.The acting is awful. Though to be fair, a large part of this may be due to the actors maybe not having English as a first language? I'm just guessing. The storyline just.... well... there isn't one really; far as I can tell. Apparently there's some sort of planetary alignment, or such, that will affect the Earth's magnetic field and cause weird stuff to happen. Whoever made this film took that as licence to make the entire film, (well, the first hour at least) as unintelligible and disjointed as possible. The whole thing consists mostly of long, drawn out photographic type shots or sequences, culminating in something abstract, unexplained or just plain stupid - then jump to the next long, drawn out photographic type shot... etc... etc...And the music? As has already been suggested by other reviewers - it's incessant. Every single scene, or even sometimes just a change of shot, has its own piece of music. All of which is usually set too loud over the dialogue. And whilst sometimes, the music score and photography may complement each other, the fact it never lets up just serves to spoil the whole thing.All in all, I'm giving it 2/10. The only reason, despite the phony reviews, it doesn't get a one, is because every once in a while, there's some really nice photography. Also, whenever one of the 'monsters' appears, the makeup/special effects aren't too bad, and just for a split second you think it might be about to get interesting. Unfortunately not the case. If you're into 'artsy' type films, or you study photography, you may get something out of this - otherwise I'd say it's a fail and give it a miss.
KiKeNiCo
Being a sort of knowledgeable film nerd, sometimes you just have to dive in title vaults to find something new and potentially interesting.Sometimes that vault is IMDb listings: sometimes that path is one to hell. How this inarguably piece of garbage keeps a 8 score from 2000 votes and some ranking out of IMDb listings is beyond comprehension..if not for a clever advertising ruse. Because that's all this film is: a neat publicity stunt. All you find around the web about this film is an awesome plot with some deep explanation of characters, atmosphere and weird mythology, a cleverly put trailer and a nifty poster to awaken your interest..which it does. Problem is the real thing is a pretentious boring and lame plot less video feature. The acting is atrocious, so thank god for that cheap ominous and uninspired soundtrack leveled up the dialogue volume. Editing is just incompetent with some atrocious sense of pace, and continuity is something unheard of for this crew. Photography can redeem like a 1% of the movie, but that's kudos to the beautiful scenery: camera wise, it is submitted to abuse with some of the worst shaky-cam treatments ever, 40% of the whole film is feet frame based, 20% pitch black and the remainder just expressionless embarrassing faces.And I thought this was a horror film..Well, the horror is real, just fighting the narcotic effect of boredom. A couple of creepy post-prod faces, some overused ffwd editing crap combined with unclever topical imagery out of some 2000's Ringu type film. And a tree; and waves showed in reverse. Creepy.Don't even waste a glimpse into this thing, don't even remotely believe any of the good reviews out there: don't fall for the con. I should have seen it coming in the atrocious first 5 minutes, but I was naive and hopeful. Serves me right for trusting the internets.Damn.
shende-229-611519
I don't understand the high ratings except that perhaps the reviewers all worked on the movie or know the actors and director.The music is so annoying I had to shut it off multiple times.It is so slow I fast forwarded several times.The acting is atrocious and if you depend on good acting to get through a movie like I do,this movie will be unwatchable.Artsy fartsy mystery science theater 3000-esque b flick is how I would describe this first attempt by the director.Again the high rating is rigged.This movie had no redeeming qualities.Trust me if you like good horror but appreciate good acting and a logical plot/conclusion-don't bother watching this film...or..go ahead and watch it and see for yourself.Don't rent the DVD or spend a cent on it though!
