RipDelight
This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
silverkreahe
What a cool premise. This movie should have made my favorites list. Extraterrestrials, robots, space, wormholes, examinations of what makes us human... But instead I have so many complaints.As the other reviewers have noted, the visuals are excellent. Special effects were, for the most part, excellently done that added to the story. Unfortunately, while the special effects were clear, they were over explained. So much of the story is just exposition, leaving viewers with feelings of "Yes yes I saw that but WHY." And if the director's intention was to get the viewers to ask why, he could have done so without the exposition. In fact, the only special effect that I wanted answered was the destruction of the outer planets. Was that the aliens? Was it malicious and then they changed their minds? Was it to give them the raw elements to create Earth 2 and the other planets and if so why was such destruction necessary if they can create wormholes? There were, like, 3 or 4 good movies floundering inside this film. A story about the global social impact of the Void and the subsequent dark spheres- you didn't really expect your audience to believe that one private company successfully convinced every single nation on the planet to not attempt to interact or otherwise engage with the Void and the spheres, do you? And if you're going to say they did, you've gotta come up with a convincing reason. Or a story about what happened on the other side. We're told years go by and yet all we see are a couple landscape shots and a fever dream? No, you sent a person over there in a robot suit- how did she pass the time? What did she encounter? What did she think? And there's a story to be told about Earth 2 obviously and it's effects on Earth, socially, economically, environmentally. That's a whole new planet in the sky, way too close to not impact the oceans, the orbit, the satellites, etc. You could even tell a story about the subsequent people who became Human 2.0s, as a sequel I guess. And then there are the errors. There were little ones like Jessica 2.0's hands are robotic except for when we're looking at the footage of the planet on the other side of the wormhole - then they're just people hands inside white cloth gloves? Or how we talk about there being an extensive vetting process to become a Human 2.0, we lose the first one, Jessica's the second and we go through the process with her... and then she's aboard the shuttle with another person who wasn't vetted? Just a soldier? But we immediately discard him in the wormhole so I guess he didn't need any story time. Except that he reappears at the very end and it's still fully human - despite that we were very clear that you had to be Human 2.0 to go through the wormhole and that there was no coming back to human after becoming Human 2.0. And I've already touched on my issues with the distance between Earth and Earth 2. This movie needed AT LEAST an story editor, but really needed a different writer. And someone on hand to clear up some science. I don't need action, I need coherent story.
assspam
This was one of the worst things I have ever watched. The audio is bad, the visuals are horrible. The characters are absent. The science is completely missing. There is nothing to be interested in within this movie. No characters to care about. Hardly any story line to follow. Half the movie was just interviewing candidates for a pointless mission that didn't make sense in the first place if these are such powerful aliens that have telepathy anyway.
The entire IDEA of this movie is awful. Screw up the planet so that aliens can build us another beyond physics and science. AWFUL. This is an idea NOT worth spreading. Some nutcase on psychedelics or stoned out of his mind must have written and made this movie.
sampsonraysimon
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.
johnaskew
A bit documentary styled but non the less it was a good and original concept.
Am glad the aliens were not perceived as the usual ugly beasts we tend to see or humanoid stiff versions of ourselves, in fact I still don't know what they looked like unless they themselves were the gaseous spherical clouds that were appearing above the earth. Overall I think it was a decent film and would recommend it.