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This Danish made independent sci-fi is quite the surprise! It tells the story of a revolutionary new power source, but as usual nothing goes to plan and it puts the entire world in jeopardy. Filmed from two perspectives, real time in entirely first person and flashbacks through a more traditional format. Though quite disorientating it actually works. With a mostly unknown but competent cast, gripping story and SFX that are considerably better than you'd ever expect from a movie of this type I was certainly left impressed. Sure it's not flawless, certain elements don't work as well as others but as a whole this is a very well made movie and certainly puts many similar Hollywood efforts to shame by comparison. I'd call this essential viewing for lovers of sci-fi, a lot of fun. The Good: Very stylish Some great visuals Bérénice Marlohe The Bad: Something felt missing Transitioning between first person and third person can get frustrating

The premise was almost interesting. Generate 'identical' universes, cannibalise one for energy... Obviously the company that wants to do this says the cannibalised universe is devoid of carbon based life, but gives no reason why that should be the case. Here, it is presented as a mistake. Missed opportunity #1, since the level of evil required to knowingly eat 7 billion people for the sake of powering toasters and phones would have been fun to play with. As it was, that the idea that a massive building would be duplicated, but the timeline and 'alive' (whatever that is) bits of planet walking around in the form of people would not is just taken for granted. Missed opportunity #2 was making the 'echo' world unashamedly a copy. Not sure how two identical universes can tell which one came first - and that would have explained the side effects, which were left as a mystery. No copy of the post- duplication race to fix, no battle of consumption. Missed opportunity #3 was failing to capitalise on the essential Sci_Fi genre by ignoring the ethical and moral issues raised. Even if they'd just left some of the main dude's family alive, there would have been more drama. Failing to get opportunity #1 added to the beigeness of the film's core. As for the rest. grunting POV chases, enemy drones that just hang about looking pretty, until it is time to kill deus-ex style, pointless rebels, pointless company men, pointless everybody, really. and then he turns it off. and with it the last opportunity is missed, the chance to add a hint of ambiguity to a black and white, pedestrian tale. And then we come to the sound design. POV is confusing, but we can live with it. The flashbacks were unexpected and unnecessary, perhaps serving to insert the lead's face into the film regularly, because POV doesn't let us see him. What was really bad, as opposed to unsettling, was the sudden change in volume between now and then. Then was soft spoken, quiet, low noise. Now was loud, brash, shouting and gunshots. So sudden shocks as the film transitioned between times. Adding to the sonic sins, there are repeated long stretches where the sound gets muffled, i guess to represent concussion. So the loud and shouty periods of pointless running and shooting and lame pretend hiding in cover (really providing POV based camera angles when a free camera would have done it better) are broken up by muffled, dull stretches of heartbeat and fuzz. really not worth watching, pretty much irredeemable.

It's worth a watch instead of negative reviews around it. The story is good and the acting if not perfect is decent. The graphics and sound effects are decent too. The movie is pretty good from the point of view that it's not a big/huge Hollywood blockbuster and likewise should not be viewed in those terms.

In my opinion, we can never have enough science fiction on TV series, or movies unless it's pathetically poor, and this one is decent enough to watch. First person shooter-type (a la Hardcore Henry), and parallel universes. It's been done before (the last time I recall a similar plot was in Fringe (awesome series cancelled by pencil necks). It won't be a classic, but it definitely entertains.

If you ever wanted a decent Half Life Movie this is the nearest you are gonna get.This has a similar outlandish science fiction plot, portals between dimensions, a Barney Calhoun type character. Hell, the hero even looks somewhat like Gordon Freeman minus the glasses. Too bad the hazard suit is missing. The hero even picks up a crowbar at one point of the movie. I do not know why so much hate in the other reviews. This is a pretty smart looking sci-fi movie which I enjoyed. Seeing the reviews I almost didn't. I am glad I saw this. Decent graphics, the plot is straight out of a video game so are the camera angles. The lead takes 1-2 very stupid decisions but what the heck, its a video game inspired movie after all. I enjoyed this movie.

This is an okay sci-fi movie, although it does have some imperfections. It's certainly not dull, and the story is original. The acting wasn't bad either. It should be taken into consideration that it didn't have a high budget, I think they did not too badly with what resources they had.