Joey_Fantana
Oct 19, 2018
1/10
I'd been looking forward to this since halfway through 2016. My intrigue was entirely based on the poster and the tagline and the fact it was touted as a sci-fi, action, adventure. Zero promotion and even Letterboxd doesn't have many details to go on, however I found this wallowing in the depths of Amazon Prime.
Here are my stream of conscious thoughts as I watched....
- Main guy is appalling. Appalling. I cannot believe he has been in other movies. I could start acting tomorrow if this is the acceptable standard these days.
- Nauseating camera work. Not shaky cam, not handheld, something far worse.
- Jumps into a doomsday/conspiracy/I'm-not-too-sure-what plot with absolutely no explanation, progression or development.
- Jumps from scene to scene inexplicably. Missing out whole scenes of development.
- Director's mates found some shockingly bad police uniforms and decided to join in.
- I wonder how much Seth Gilliam got paid for the 3 minutes he shows up for.
- Black woman going "mm-hmm".
- No transitions of any kind.
- No lighting of any kind.
- No sound effects of any kind. At one point a character shoots a policeman in a government building. It needs to be seen to be believed but what stood out was the gunshot that sounded like a cap gun.
- No set design of any kind.
- The main character's shoes are two or three sizes too big, his hair changes length, style AND colour with each passing scene. Never seen a film where the time between shoots was clear as day.
- Time travel plot now! When did this happen?!
- Main character tries to sneak into police station by asking for a fictional police officer at front desk. Two scenes later he is miraculously walking through the police station with no explanation.
- Misrepresents mental illness to offensive levels
- Characters just appear!
- Looks and feels just like a Michael Scarn movie... I miss the Office
- Slow mo pigeons
- Every single contextual element was either cut or not filmed at all. Shit just... happens. No explanation. No transition.
- I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the director did every single job outside of the acting on this piece of shit
- The first shot is a top-down view of Manhattan. And I think the budget was blown right there. The rest of this is outstandingly bad.