I wanted to but couldn't!

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This film presents an idea of quantum theory which bears absolutely no resemblance to anything any physicist would recognise, and certainly nothing of which they would approve on a scientific level. Instead it tries to present spiritual ideas with an attempt to link them to physics so that the general public believes the spiritual ideas have more validity than they might otherwise. This is a common and unsettling trend in some of the more "fringe" areas of spiritual thought such as espoused by Deepak Chopra.As an example, let me cite probably the most well known and possibly most blatant example from the film. A European sailing ship comes over the horizon towards Carribbean natives who have never seen a ship of this type before. Because they have never seen a ship like this before they aren't able to see this one. The film tries to link this to the quantum mechanics effect of Observer Effect - that the act of observing a sub-atomic object alters some property of that object. There is nothing mystical about this effect. It is simply that too observe a proton - visually for example - a photon of light would have to bounce off the proton and then to your eyes. The issue is the proton and photon are very similar in size and the photon is moving at the speed of light, so when the photon hit the proton it sends the proton bouncing off to some other place. It is just like hitting a billiard ball with another billiard ball.The problem is the film tries to make this seem like some sort of mystical or spiritual concept and that it has relevance to the human sized world, and thus tries to co-opt science into seemingly supporting faith-based ideas when that is completely untrue. So the act of the islanders observing the ship and being unable to see it is somehow supposed to be the same sort of thing. Beyond the attempt to conflate science and spirituality, a brief moment of critical thinking would make it apparent such concepts don't apply to the real world. In the ship example, if we were unable to observe things we have never seen before we would essentially be unable to see most, if not all, of the world. Everyone sees everything for the first time once.The problem I therefore have with the film isn't the acting, direction or cinematography. It is the ideas. It is bad enough to espouse concepts that have no actual meaning in the world most of us live. What is far worse is that the creators don't have enough conviction of their own message to let it stand on its own. The attempt to hijack scientific concepts unfamiliar to the average lay person so as to shore up their message is deplorable.

While some special effects are well-done, even creative, others are cheesy and distracting – and repetitive. The "acting" is mediocre – likely due to poor direction, full of flaws. The "story" is even worse – actually a melange of claims attempting to build some kind of theory on an "alternative reality" based on sketchy scientific "facts" (non- accredited and without references) and the authors' own "alternative facts". Intriguing, for the many minutes of never getting to the point – until "scientist" (one has to assume) claim one can create one's own "reality". So, one could walk on water, for example, if one just believe it possible. The problem is that they present it as "truth". They should invested their ideas and efforts in some sci-fi thriller. They could have come out with something entertaining or at least interesting – this was neither.

As for me, this is a really good documentary and as some negative reviews pointed out skeptically, it DID leave a positive impact on me. But that was not the only thing that it did as they also said. I come from India where science and spiritualism have been deep rooted and our mythological Gods have long performed miraculous acts which were once frowned upon as only myths. We have hundreds and hundreds of tales describing the miracles that the old sages performed by meditating for long spans of time and being gifted to do particular things. Today, the world is slowly knowing the power of Yoga and Pranayama for improving life and health in general. We here strongly believe in the power of thoughts and the importance of subconscious and its connection to the physical world. I believe that we know very less about our existence and this documentary did quite a good job in giving a new perspective. Yes there was no factual data that it provided or there were no surveys conducted to prove the notion, but why do we always need quantitative proof for getting a point proved. and how many of us are really expert enough to comment. The only flip side of the documentary is however too much information to think over. If you are a general movie watcher, this is not an entertainer but a work put together by scholars as to what they think reality is. It is slow and methodical. It is for those who want to know and think things that are not part of our everyday table conversations. It gives us less information and more "to do" and I guess thats what has aroused all the skeptics about its credibility. With all due respects of course, it is just a matter of their choice whether to believe on the power of our minds and the extent to which it can be stretched.

Although one of the tags for this movie is Sci-Fi (and I must agree - a complete work of fiction), the movie portends to "enlighten" us with what they refer to as new and revolutionary, but in fact what they have done is taken a very elementary understanding of various disciplines (neurology, astronomy, physics, and quantum physics), and contorted that understanding to support ridiculous conclusions. First off, there is nothing new or innovative about this line of thinking. Immanuel Kant, an 18th century German philosopher stated once that we are not passive perceivers of the world, rather that we are the creators of the world we experience. This was echoed in the 1999 movie "The Matrix", whose graphics by the way were far more impressive. Even further back there was an Indian guy who used to go by the name of Siddartha Guatama who became the Buddha back before Christ. The fundamental ideas upon which this tragic film has been based are ancient. They are not new. They are not revolutionary. I am a psychology student and the one subject that was emphasized throughout my courses was critical thinking. Part of critical thinking is the ability to spot faulty logic. Faulty logic is simply stating something the sounds like it might be logical, but cannot be either proved or disproved, and this movie is chock full of it:if we believe with every fiber of who we are, it is possible to walk on water. Critical thinking says, show us. Of the 7 billion people on the planet there must be at least 1 human being who with every fiber of his or her being can walk on water - so show us. a zen Buddhist prayed over water, it was left out over night and it took the form of different snowflakes. Firstly, the film-makers failed to mention that water was frozen. They simply said the water had changed. We did not see any footage of this happening - so how do we know that it didn't snow over night? How do we know it is the same water? -so where do the particles go? There is a portion of the movie that claims that when we can no longer observe particles that they "go somewhere" - it's called the law of the conservation of energy and is expressed by an equation you might have heard of it called E=mc2. There is a bit in this movie that has a ring of truth to it - when they talk about how the brain transmits messages, and how our past experience can color the present. There is substantial evidence to support these things, but for the most part, this movie makes wild, and unsupported claims and assumptions. If you want to tell a story, please do so - but do so without pretending that its real. If people can change the physical world with a simple thought, or defy the laws of physics then there should be no problem proving it.