Just what I expected

hyped garbage

Captivating movie !

The acting in this movie is really good.

Do not let the IMDb score trick you, it is a solid science fiction movie. The acting is decent. The story is not necessarily unique but well tailored. The movie starts well and keeps you focused and curious until the very last moment. The time spent watching it is well worth it. The movie finishes open ended, signaling to a squeal. For some this may be positive and for some other it can be negative. However the movie does not end abruptly, the ending is satisfactory. In the last a few minutes of the movie it raises several questions, however it also answers many of the questions that arise during the movie. If you like science fiction movies with mystery elements in it, such as Coherence, then you will enjoy this movie.

If you like a couple Slider episodes combined into a full feature length movie, you'll like Parallels. This movie has nothing original on the parallel-Earths theme except a nice looking high rise building, on the exterior, that's completely trashed and tagged on the interior, as the inter-universe vehicle. The key characters come with their own story- line from their original Earth life, a boxing brother and an Ivy League sister with family issues and their nerd-alert lawyer friend from the neighborhood. My fav character is the alluring Constance Wu, who joins them on the first jump, but plays along with their ignorance when she's obviously an experienced traveler. This script creates more questions than it answers, the doppelgangers the travelers find are kind of funny, there is fair to middling action . . . .and that's about it. It views like a TV pilot that never got funded for a full series.

Just bad, just plain bad! Like Sliders this had the possibility to be great, but (also like Sliders) it was given the Gilligan's Island lost and never seem to find a rescue formula. The only time this formula ever worked (maybe it worked for LOST,but I could not stomach to watch that show) was with Gilligan's Island and Star Trek Voyager, and the only reason it worked for Voyager is because it had so many other things going for it. Sliders and Parallels are pretty much the same show, except Sliders made sense in that the device was something covert and Parallels chose the device as a building that shows up in every Multiple universe (no matter how advanced or ruined) with nobody noticing that it is so different or trying to live there/tear it down, etc. The other difference, it Parallels tries to be trendy, which pretty much sums up the target audience as a bunch of dumb kids.Sliders, and even this movie, could have been great if they left the Gilligan's Island angle out of it. Just think how good it could be with people exploring the multi-verse and dealing with the personal and social conflict of different worlds while being able to return to their own.Also, the ending sucks. It just ends, period. No closure, just a revelation that the annoying half-Asian chick is taking turns with her duplicates from other worlds to explore the multiverse.

Parallels is about a building that travels through time. I was intended to be a TV series. Fox decided not to go forward but still dump the pilot into a film. That's not always a bad thing (cfr. Mulholland Drive) but it does create a film with a big cliffhanger/open ending and some unexplained stuff. It was also based on a Japanese Manga called Sprite but that might be just in concept. I can't really recommend it coz it goes nowhere and I'm not convinced it would have made a great series either. It would have been one of those 'Lost' like series where you get maybe one answer and 20 questions on top of that. They stretch out stuff that needs to be answered a lot quicker and that is why series are cheap. This TV film didn't look to expensive either and you get okay but unknown actors too.