Beyond
April. 25,2014A suspenseful sci-fi journey tracking the turbulent relationship of Cole and Maya as they struggle to survive in a world where the human population has been left decimated after an extra-terrestrial attack.
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Just what I expected
Great Film overall
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Transcendence, Ghost in the Shell, and Lucy, these titles all revolve around the transhumainsm modern gravy train...This plays like a low budget B-movie version of the others. Poor CGI (though the human 2.0 was decently well done), the plot takes forever, some of the jumps seem related to budget cuts...or laziness. It skips in all the wrong places, and is one the first movies to actually put me sleep sitting up....I would not recomend this movie, and am disappointed, as I was looking forward to watching it...
While I was initially invested in Cole and Maya's budding relationship, I too quickly became tired and irritated by their constant bickering while waiting for the sci-fi element to kick in to full gear...which it never does. There are a few tense moments where you get a taste for what this movie could have been and then? The most unforgivable, cheap, lame plot device!!! It was all a dream/hallucination! There were NO ALIENS!!!! Absolute waste of two hours of my life if, you, like me were drawn into the film by the the synopsis' promise of a "struggle to survive in a world where the human population has been left decimated after an extra-terrestrial attack".
I usually have a soft spot for low budget movies. This movie was well photographed, but whoever did the editing did a horrible job. Scratch that, I sincerely doubt that this movie was edited.The movie just drags and drags. At least half the movie should have been cut to make it flow better. Instead, the viewer has to suffer thru countless little melancholy songs while the main character does such interesting things like sitting on a sofa and watching television or standing in the woods and gazing sadly out at the horizon.Whoever was able to watch this movie thru to the end without fast forwarding or picking up the crossword puzzle in the table on front of them... your Ritalin dose is too high.I gave this 2 stars instead of 1 because the camera work is better than most B-Budget films and the acting was fairly decent (even if the script was faulty).The movie description says it is a suspenseful science fiction flick. SPOILERS FOLLOWIt is science fiction in name only. We see a far off spaceship hovering over the horizon in a couple of shots. Nothing more. I honestly hated the main characters. We see them awkwardly flirt at the beginning before driving us nuts with bickering later on. The ending (MAJOR SPOILER): Leaves us hanging without explanation. Yes, some films are better when they make the audience figure out the meaning of the ending for themselves. This isn't one of them.It appears to be a flashback, where the main character is shot trying to find his wife and soon to be born child at the hospital before an asteroid wipes everyone out. We see him die? but then he is in a hospital bed with his wife present. The way it is shot makes us wonder,did he die? Was the future apocalypse just a delusion? Do you even really care? It would have been a better movie if they axed the "science fiction"part, and did a sad little movie about the couple's relationship history.
the acting wasn't bad at all. the directing wasn't bad either; if there had been a real story it wouldn't have been half-bad.the only way I can fulfill the obligation of the review standards is to make a top 10 list. the top 10 reasons to not watch this movie: 10. making up IS apparently hard to do 9. "is this a flashback man?" 8.why is it the responsibility of the USA to defend the world against asteroids or space aliens? 7. Oranges get a bad rap 6. no real nightlife after the apocalypse. 5. love stinks 4. what ever happened to Scottish pride? 3. "that's not how you steal someone's girl" 2."I don't get it." 1. please have that guy shoot me before the opening scene ends.