Realive

This is what science fiction should be about. It provides a unique story about how the reanimation of the cryogenically frozen person could happen in the future. An how that person could feel, it isn't a rosy picture but probably the most realistic one I seen. I agree with other reviewers that it a tad boring in parts, wish we got a wider perspective on the world he was reborn into. May be if it ended on a happier note, it would have made a better film. The moral of the story, make sure you have a clause in the contract that you aren't the first reanimated because the first will always be the worse, an probably the first hundred attempts after the first, yeah make sure you are only going to be animated after the procedure is fully perfected. The character was lumbered with a body that barely worked, held together by spit and glue and luck and lots of machines, recovery time that lasted years. It no wonder he suffered from depression and tried to kill himself for a second time.

The movie is a bore. I kept waiting for it to get better, but to my un-surprise, it never did. To me this was an all-around failure, but I did have to give the film credit in a few places. The acting was good, but the story-line was bad. This gives a peek into what it may be like if someone were revived after being cyro-frozen. I didn't like this version of what it might be like, mainly because it is without a lot of emotion. It doesn't allow the audience to feel emotional about any of the characters. There was 0 character growth. The memories from the main character were repeated over and over. Concepts like happiness or humor were deplete from this movie. It was all basically null of any and all feeling....maybe a tad of sadness, but no not really that either. I do not recommend this movie, and I do believe being revived in a future day and age after being frozen could offer humanity better options. This movie was a miserable outlook on cyronics and revival.

I am not a fan of slow paced films (and this was just that), and I have a certain level of expectations when it comes to sci-fi and do expect some level of action/suspense (which this film did not have), BUT I was still very impressed and surprisingly enjoyed this film much more than I expected. The highlight of this film is the directing, writing and editing. This is Mateo Gil's 2nd attempt as writer/director and he just nailed it. Combining the elements of the cinematography and editing with his outstanding directing and screenplay, this one is a winner for me. It is very though provoking and has elements that will have you thinking about this film long after the closing credits. It's not your typical sci-fi, not your typical love story, nor is it your typical psychological thriller. But what it is, is a well assembled miss-mash of variations of each elements put together intricately that work very well. Everything about this film was done perfectly (all within a 7M budget) and I can not find one area that could have been improved (except for the pace to have been faster). Aside from the excellent directing, writing/screenplay, the cinematography, editing, sound/score, visuals, sets, locations and even costumes were all on point, as was the acting that was convincing from every character involved. This is about as good as it gets for a low budget B-type film. If you can appreciate a film that excels in every category, and can overlook the typical Hollywood action, fast paced drama and vfx you would expect from this genre, you will really enjoy this film as I did. A very well deserved 9/10 from me

If you are looking for anything related to Sci Fi, look for some where else ,Its a Deep sleep movie with a waking up psychotic breakdown Movie continuously goes to past & not for even a scene but more like for 3 second moments ,though movie emphasized to show the depth of Love but it failed to even give enough time for that love to develop ,instead shred the story line into literally thousands of pieces ,at some point i had to close my eyes cz scenes were changing so rapidly .annoying & irritating ,repeating same scene of past again & again ,no real dialogue .Boring & annoying as hell Its more like a Story of a Failed Experiment where you actually feel sorry for the Researcher that they gave opportunity to one of the most whiny ,depressed person who can't even process anything straight . So the Main character is what ,Who ever watching a Deep sleep & wake up movie don't want to be .Character hover in the past & forget about the possibility of future & He even admitted that his love stories has many flaws & To Me their story doesn't even make sense as true love in any situation So you find here a broken love story ,Investing billions in the Worst Candidate & a Character whose Reanimate problems doesn't even make any sense as Whole motive of the project is to live in future not in Past .So this story is more like Oh i made a mistake & i don't want anything now .Story of a Confused character who is also confused in his motivation for his confusion .

This film has two stories one is about Marc Jarvis' (Tom Hughes) past love lost story. His love affair and full wonderful life with the lovely Naomi (Oona Chaplin.) We fast forward some sixty years into the future where Marc is awoken after having his body frozen. Marc had cancer in his past life, he decided to have his body frozen to bypass the agony of going through the painful chemo treatment. His lover Naomi at first is set against the idea, but later she relents and aids Marc in his suicide plan to save his body the ravages of cancer, so his body will be fresh for future doctors to repair him and bring him back to life. The past life story of Marc was very interesting and believable. When we get to the science fiction future writer/director Gil Mateo paints a somewhat believable picture of the future, yet he has his characters the brilliant doctors and scientists make illogical decisions and blaring mistakes that defy explanation. Here is what I am talking about. When Marc is awoken and undergoes the slow process of adjusting to being alive again. The doctors at first make logical choices. Yet later when Marc begins to recall some of his painful memories of his past life. The doctors unbelievably give him a device that he places on his face like glasses that allow him to vividly see his past life memories. This therapy backfires badly as Marc is caught in a depression thinking of Naomi and his past wonderful life. For most of his present life he has an umbilical cord attached to him and to a machine to help keep him alive. His movements and life is very restricted to the hospital. The one bright advantage of the future? A gorgeous, cute nurse and assistant for Marc, Elizabeth. She cares for him in a loving way that many would be begging to go to this hospital as patient, especially when she tells Marc that when his get stronger they can have sex!! This would be the best therapy for Marc or any guy, to take his mind off the past. It was working until. The writer of this film decided to make complete morons out of the once brilliant doctors. The doctors hand Marc a box of memorabilia that he possessed from his past life. That includes a love letter from Naomi. This sends Marc into an even deeper tailspin of depression. He wants his life and freedom back and to be like he was, not hooked up to machine and restricted to this hospital. When Marc is told that Naomi is frozen and in a chamber Marc visits the chamber. Without supervision where he is what he doing? He wanders into the doctor's office, finds tape of the previous experiments before him that all went horrible wrong shown in bloody vivid detail. Now Marc gets even more depressed and defiant and regretting that he was brought back to life. Complicated even more when at fund raising event Marc is brought before to a group of financial donors. Here the moron doctors make another blunder, they reveal that they are going to bring Naomi back to life. REALLY!! You dumb Idiot doctors!!, After Marc just saw the videos of all the failed horrible experiments that went wrong!! He doesn't want Naomi to go through that!! Spoiler ALERT!!!! Marc having had enough of this abuse by his idiot doctors plans to commit suicide. He asks Elizabeth to aid him like Naomi did in his first life. Elizabeth agrees and tells him where the medicine is that will end his life. SO GUESS WHAT?!!! Marc just strolls through the facility. He opens up a cabinet where all the medicine is stored and drinks the medicine that will end his life. Why did the writer Mateo make everyone in the future a moron idiot!!? Why aren't there any locks on the medicine cabinets? Or security cameras that have alarms that go off alerting everyone that their prize valuable patient is about to do himself in?!! Marc is depressed, he had an altercation with a doctor. Logically he would have been under heavy surveillance and watched over. But there was no logic written in this future sci-fi story!!

REALIVE was thought-provoking, deeply moving, and delicately handles sensitive subjects with a deftness one doesn't typically expect from a Syfy film. I was hooked basically from the very beginning. The conversation between the doctor and Marc/Lazarus was so very well done. It was grave and serious without being overly dramatic. I like how the guy asks "Why?" and the doctor is just kind of flatly states "It's cancer." Not to be morbid, but that was probably one of my favorite scenes in the movie. The expression on the doctor's face says so much even as he just says "It's cancer." Actually, the whole way they portray Marc dealing with this diagnosis in the beginning all feels very real and true as well. Enough so that it put a hitch in my throat watching it. The cinematography in REALIVE was nice. The movie is filmed in two time lines. Before re-animation and after re-animation. The 'before' is done in soft, warm colors with movement and laughter and light. The 'after' in cold blues and sharp lines. The facility in the future is conveyed as state of the art and, er, 'futuristic' without being over the top. Its crisp, stark, and rather effective even without a bunch of wires and monitoring equipment everywhere. To be honest, I had no real desire to watch REALIVE. From the stills and the trailer, I thought 'eh, not my type of movie' and didn't give it a second thought. But then I was offered a chance to do an interview with one of the actors, so I decided to give it a go. REALIVE really isn't my type of movie. I prefer blood, guts, and shoot-em-ups. Spaceships, aliens, and planetary exploration. I don't do feels or thought-provoking flicks as a general rule of thumb. I appreciate that they're around for the people who like 'em, but they just don't get my motor running. This is, I thought as I was starting it up, the type of movie where I'm going to end up picking a book up halfway through it. Sweet baby Cthulhu, I was wrong. One of my favorite things about the movie was how it handled the subject of cryogenics and reanimation. This isn't one of those movies where it's like "Yes, you are alive again and everything is perfect" It was one that actually looked seriously at how reanimation would actually work. While I don't want to give anything away, let's just say that this is the most believable approach to reviving someone from cryostasis that I've ever read or seen. From the actual reanimation itself to the body's adjustments afterwards. The love story is also well-handled in REALIVE. It isn't typical, and it isn't super-mushy. It's got an element of star-crossed lovers to it, but not quite that bad. It was there, but it wasn't what the story was all about (to me, at least.) The ending of the movie was deftly handled as well. It was one of those deals where you were pretty sure you knew how things were going to end up once you were past the halfway point, but you still couldn't look away. Overall, REALIVE was a fantastically done movie. It put tears in my eyes. That's a fairly difficult thing to do. From the script to the editing, there's very little I would have changed. (Literally, there's like one scene involving two of the doctors that was a bit much. That's it.) I'm happy that I decided to watch it, and definitely highly recommend it to all my fellow sci-fi lovers out there. Disclaimer: I received a screener of this movie free for review consideration.

It's more of a sad love story than a sci-fi!! Lack of drama, poorly written characters!!

Something of a mood piece leaning toward gattica over trek in styling and pace, it's a good one to watch when you've seen almost everything and have a cold or for whatever reason get stuck indoors. It's more mature sci-fi instead of talking rodents and giant smurfs. Considering a movie has such a short time to convey complicated ideas, this film is put together well and shoots and hits at more of those targets than one would expect. Presentation is good on all fronts. The lead role could have been written for anyone really, male or female and they had to choose one particular lifestyle to represent the story and the one they chose was OK, but some wont like it. This is a movie that could have gone longer in many directions. The actual science of it all was done well and can serve as an example of a direction that could have gone longer. That's what a good movie does. Makes you want more. A once watch flick that makes an impact. I'll buy it for the box art and put it on my recommend list.

This movie is about a silicon valley snowflake--the alpha-snowflake in a troupe of snowflakes. They form a circle of dinner-partying friends, including man-bun Ken, that has become cliche in television and movies. The protagonist, Marc, is reanimated in 2084, but the technology is closer to what I would expect in 2030 at the latest. The future he is reanimated into is never shown. I assume this was done deliberately to maintain the sense of sterile hopelessness that ultimately consumes him. Marc is an unimaginative self-centered garden-variety atheist who "knows" there is no afterlife because he has not been there. He ultimately proselytizes at length about the utter meaninglessness of life that his unique experience has revealed to him and decides to kill himself and take action to keep his old girlfriend (a character from The Big Chill) from ever being resurrected. Marc does not have the foresight to realize that, even though his resurrection is profoundly lacking, technology will inevitably be mastered that makes it possible for him to be completely normal and, relative to his original life, considerably superior. The film is filled with the typical indictments of industry and medical research that one expects from snowflake dinner-party movies. The doctor is predictably ambitious and only somewhat regretful of the horrors he has caused in the process of attempting to resurrect countless prior subjects before this final pseudo-success. He is prompted, at one time, to say, "What did you expect, a miracle?" To this, I would have answered, "No, but I expected you to wait and revive me when you were finally capable of something better than this botch-job." The resurrection itself is done with technology that can easily be extrapolated from present research. The main "nurse" in the story is impressed at seeing artificial muscles. Marc is resurrected without the ability to consume at least some nutrients through his mouth and has to be regularly connected to a mechanical umbilical cord. He is fragile and prone to all sorts of maladies. This is not so much a futurist movie, or an earth-bound variant of Passengers, as it is a remake of Frankenstein's Monster. Instead of having visible scars on the outside, all of Marc's scars, except the umbilical cord, are on the inside. Marc's hair begins to grow back, but he deliberately has it shaven off (why) and maintains his embryonic appearance of superhuman frailty. This movie was made by people who, instead of starting with technology and working backward to the story, started with the view of the human condition they wished to portray and forced science and events to conform to their predetermined tale. No one has ever died and been resurrected, but the writers assure us that they have been there and that there is nothing behind the curtain. They use numerous visuals of death, dying and cruelty to reinforce their all-encompassing view. The end product is depressing, melodramatic nonsense. I gave this movie three stars instead of one because it held my attention to the depressing pointless meaningless wrongheaded end.

This science fiction tale (with a moral standpoint and quite a few serious questions about mortality) is done really well. It may not qualify for a classic, but it's still encapsulates a lot of things that we've come to love from these types of movies. That's literally to a point, where you may recognize where some of the inspiration has been drawn from. But it has enough to say on its own too. It may seem cliché at points in the story and you may feel like you've seen similar things before, but it's tough to be completely original. It's hard enough to be good in what you're trying to say. And this makes a lot of points about living and dying. And being able to accept things. Some things do not translate as good though and it's tough for the main actor to convey certain feelings that none of us have gone through (to that extend). Still more than solid and very gripping