Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

vrvlvnd I bought this film on DVD without reading the cover properly, thinking it to be of somewhat quality. Two minutes into the film I realize my mistake. Other reviewers have gone into detail about how awful this film is, so I won't reiterate on it. The film makers might be talented in some ways, but that's not enough to release this on the open market. Don't waste your time, people!There is an interesting plot idea here (which is why I bought the DVD). Sadly it's nowhere near developed. The actors cannot act, the English Language probably looks passable in script, but doesn't work on film. Bad editing, holes in the storyline and some strange details (others have mentioned how a 5 year old contemplates suicide and Writes a note about it, for example ...).On the plus side: Excellent cover, good enough to fool a hasty customer!

OJT To appreciate this you really need to know some basic info before viewing. Otherwise you're most likely to find the film awful. Like if I didn't know that Roberto Rodriguez first feature "El Mariachi" was made for a total of 8000 dollars, you wouldn't really think that the film is more than OK. When you get to know it's made in one shot due to the cost of 35mm film, you simply cannot be more impressed.What you need to know about this film, is that it's made of a couple of 17 year old Norwegian high school kids with all amateurs in all roles. Then it's easier to get impressed. However this doesn't make this film more than a curiosity, due to this, because there's too much not functioning, though the idea is good enough, photography work is well done, the effects are OK for it's budget and the score functions very well. On the worse side is amateurish acting, incoherent storytelling, badly spoken English and cheesy dialog from most of the actors and a confusing rhythm. It's made with English dialog just to make the market for the film bigger.But being made for less than 10.000 dollars, there's quite a lot which surprises. This film actually made it to Cinema release at a couple of cinemas in Oslo, with quite good turn up, and is released on Blu-ray and DVD in quite a handful of countries by Another World entertainment.We're in a future world where teleporting is as common as making phone calls, when 18 year old Ian Finch loses his five year old adopted brother Dylan, when he disappears like half the population of the world goes missing. Dylan seems to be a bit sad, and he strangely enough puts a paper note into his brother's pocket. When Ian later on finds the note, he immediately runs back home, only to find some dusty remains of Dylan in the bathtub. He is then surprised by a boy at his own age, facing him with a gun.The film could have been much better if it wasn't made out to be an action movie. The fear in threatening and the use of weapons make the bad acting come to be too obvious. This is shot digitally, which means they could have managed to train away the bad acting with more than one take. Can't say anything other than that the bad acting ruins it for me. The best scenes are shot in Oslo (which is not supposed to be Oslo, though), without any actors. Another running scene with no dialog is the film's best scene. The two main actors, Harald Evjan Furuholmen and Hugo Hermann, related to the missing 5-year-old, have their moments, and shows there's some acting talent there, but mostly runs around looking cute and estranged cheeky. They should have had some hours of theatrical training to use their voices. I think it would have been better if shot in Norwegian. A couple of the lesser roles are played brilliantly, though. Graeme Whittington is by far the best. Maybe this was bad casting in several roles?Well, it suits as an example of what is possible to do on a shoestring budget today with digital technology. The two teenage creators Jarand Breian Herdal (writer and director) and Jens Peder Hertzberg (Visual effects creator) are talented, but in need of a more time and professional supervision when it comes to many things. Using 10 minutes of the running time of the film on character development in the film would have helped a bit, and much more rehearsals for almost everyone involved. The two trailers made for this, both featured on the DVD and Blu-Ray are giving the impression of a better film than it is, and shows more quality and talent than the film. See what youngsters today are capable of achieving in both film making and distribution, even if it lacks some serious quality, is very interesting, though. We haven't heard the last of these two film makers. Let's hope they attend film school before they do another feature, while rehearsing on making short movies and improves on their own quality measures.The DVD and Blu-ray version, very professionally packaged by Another World Entertainment has a 3 minute (why not longer??!!) "the making of"-interview with the two young film makers, also in English, and this gives some of the thoughts behind the project as well as how they managed to make the film in less than 10.000 dollars.I think this film might be used in start of film schools and media classes, but maybe just in parts, as a discussion around how it shouldn't be done. It's suited to inspire young film makers, no doubt! I give a weak three stars (out of ten) for the overall effort, obvious drive and talent. More precisely: Packaging (9), score (8), sound effects (8), photography (6), trailers (5), visual effects (5), plot and idea (5), locations (5), casting (4), But dragging down is dialog (1), instruction (1), acting (2), script (3).Still will be looking forward to see what's next, but in a few years time. Far away from low budget young debuts of the likes Steven Spielberg (18 when made "Firelight") or Xavier Dolan (19 when made "I killed my mother"). Hope they doesn't take as long as Uwe Boll, but more like Peter Jackson (both with directorial debut as 27!) has in turning out decent movies, and hope they are connected with talented people along the way. There's loads of film talent in Norway, so my hope is hanging up there!

Diane Alexander My initial review was going to start with "If a couple of high school students decided to make a movie this is the one that they would make." Imagine my surprise when I then read the previous review and found that this movie was actually made by group of Norwegian high school students. Nailed it.The soundtrack is generic, the acting, dialog and overall screenplay values are that of a high school play. A badly acted high school play. Very. Badly. Acted. The camera work is amateurish and the editing is utterly confusing. I initially wanted to turn this piece of awfulness off within 10 minutes but forced myself to watch almost 30 in the unlikely hope it would get better. It did not.There is nothing redeeming about this work and it is absolutely not worth watching for any reason save as a case study in how not to make a movie.We now live in a world where a group of amateurs can create a movie (and I use the term generously) and have it distributed internationally on Blu-Ray presumably through manipulation of SEO. This is not a good thing. Don't waste your time.

pontram ...is not masterb*t**g, no, of course, it's shooting. Handling cool weapons.In the opening, there are two boys, which are the main characters in the movie, fighting inside a research building against numerous enemies in SWAT uniforms, defeating them, and then disappearing using some Hi-Tech devices they were searching for.After that, we follow a young man, Ian Finch, one of the two boys we've seen before, going out for a walk in the morning with his 6 years old brother Dylan, before Ian has to leave Dylan for work. First Dylan seems to be a bit sad, but when they are on the walk, he is OK. Back at home, he puts a notice into his brother's trouser pocket, and when Ian finds it on his way to work, he is alarmed and immediately runs back, but only to find some remains in the bathroom which are looking like ashes.Next, Ian is facing a mysterious, hostile boy, the other one of the two at the opening, in his own home.While to this point there maybe enough for a viewer to be caught for watching the whole movie, it became obvious that this is not a really professional production. In fact, it is a project from students of the - what I read - Ullern Highschool in Norway, funded with a budget of circa 7000 Euros or about 9600 USD. That is very few money for a movie, and we have to honor that the director/producer was able to make a movie with it.Also to honor is the basic idea - three billions of people disappear and the main character is on the run to rescue his little brother - and the professional camera-work and scenography, and especially, a compelling soundtrack.But there most of the good ends. One can literally smell the spasmodic efforts (in the cut-room) to make this a good modern movie, and technically, with the above said, this should work. Although, it doesn't. On the contrary, it fails on the most important occasions. The dialogs are often very cheesy, while meant to be cool, especially when it comes to revealings. Scenes from the future of the storyline, at an investigation office, are placed against the flow of the story, seemingly to polish up the thing, while they are only annoying. The movie tries to put a puzzle together, or, two parallel universes, but a lot of logic and consistency is lost during the process, and the plot itself has not enough substance for advanced puzzling. That's sad, because with more care and a more mature approach, it would have had the potential to be a decent movie. And, someone may have thought, that showing people who are permanently waving guns is essential for a good movie instead of being more subtle.Subsequently, the focus of the adventure goes to practice in handling guns, a big firefight - that from the opening - and teleportations like in "Jumper", but through public accessible portals, while escaping the authorities. A certain revelation at the investigation office mentioned above, near to the movie's end, is out of the blue and not understandable. It's verbal Deus Ex Machina like in some SciFi of the sixties. Only the last look in the mirror is something appreciable.So, I say, the creators are talented, even gifted, but obviously do need professional support and supervision in storytelling, character development, dialog writing and script QC for coherence. The movie itself maybe finished for its makers but is in a raw state and should not have been released on DVD before a rework. Theoretically someone will buy the idea and do a remake, which may or may not be better, but more watchable.But, to see what today's 17 years old youngsters are capable of achieving, its a good occasion, and only one worthwhile hour to spend.