i've not seen any threads for this movie, so I'm making one. If there *is* one and I missed it, I apologize.
Anyway, I went to see this this afternoon and found it to be fairly enjoyable. I'd probably grade it a B-.
It's not a movie I'm likely to watch again short of an impulse-watch on Netflix or something but it's not a bad way to spend 90 minutes.
The movie is about a cyborg "soldier" who awakes with his memory wiped and missing limbs, a doctor is there; she says she's his wife and she outfits him with new robotic prosthetic limbs. Before they can reinstall his voice chip the compound is attacked and our protagonist, "Henry" finds himself on the run to recover his wife who is kidnapped by the telekentic leader of the group how attacked the research medical "facility."
Along the way, Henry encounters a series of men trying to help him get to a place where not only can he find answers but get some things he needs to keep his cybernetic body operating so he can save his wife; but everything may not be as it seems.
The big gimmick for this movie, if you've seen the trailers, is that it is shot from a first-person perspective (using GoPro cameras) the entire movie carries out from this vantage point the only glimpses we get of our main character are of his limbs as they fly into our field of view during the action scenes and one blurry reflection.
Needless to say, like is usually the case with 'found footage" movies people who are prone to motion sickness and such should either avoid this movie or take whatever necessary medicinal steps to avoid getting sick in the theater. The action scenes are fairly well done from this perspective but, again, from this perspective there's a lot of shaky cam and sometimes a loss of what is going on. The vantage point works best when "Henry" is taking on a more tactical approach using firearms or long weapons, close-quarters combat is a bit dicey.
The variety of companions he meets up with are all played by Shalto Copely who does a great job and an even better job in a showpiece scene for him when we find out what's been going on with his character.
Probably less impressive is out main villain as his telekentic powers are given no real context or explanation as to why he has them; part of "suspension of disbelief" is helping us to suspend it, movie, you don't get carte blanche because you got us to accept groundbreaking cybernetics. The telekentic stuff feels out of place and sort of almost a deus ex machnia to make the villain more of a unstoppable "main boss" for the final battle, it's almost like the odd presentation of telekentic abilities in "Looper." It's just there because it makes things tougher for the hero(es) in the climax.
During the slower action scenes with guns and such the movie very much looks and feels like a modern-day FPS game, more active action scenes feel like your standard shaky-cam "found footage" movie and everything else (dialogue and expositional scenes) feels like segments from a FMV CD-ROM game from the mid-90s.
But, for 90 minutes of entertainment I came out pleased. If you can take the shaky-cam thing from a "found-footage" movie you can take this and I'd recommend it.
Anyway, I went to see this this afternoon and found it to be fairly enjoyable. I'd probably grade it a B-.
It's not a movie I'm likely to watch again short of an impulse-watch on Netflix or something but it's not a bad way to spend 90 minutes.
The movie is about a cyborg "soldier" who awakes with his memory wiped and missing limbs, a doctor is there; she says she's his wife and she outfits him with new robotic prosthetic limbs. Before they can reinstall his voice chip the compound is attacked and our protagonist, "Henry" finds himself on the run to recover his wife who is kidnapped by the telekentic leader of the group how attacked the research medical "facility."
Along the way, Henry encounters a series of men trying to help him get to a place where not only can he find answers but get some things he needs to keep his cybernetic body operating so he can save his wife; but everything may not be as it seems.
The big gimmick for this movie, if you've seen the trailers, is that it is shot from a first-person perspective (using GoPro cameras) the entire movie carries out from this vantage point the only glimpses we get of our main character are of his limbs as they fly into our field of view during the action scenes and one blurry reflection.
Needless to say, like is usually the case with 'found footage" movies people who are prone to motion sickness and such should either avoid this movie or take whatever necessary medicinal steps to avoid getting sick in the theater. The action scenes are fairly well done from this perspective but, again, from this perspective there's a lot of shaky cam and sometimes a loss of what is going on. The vantage point works best when "Henry" is taking on a more tactical approach using firearms or long weapons, close-quarters combat is a bit dicey.
The variety of companions he meets up with are all played by Shalto Copely who does a great job and an even better job in a showpiece scene for him when we find out what's been going on with his character.
Probably less impressive is out main villain as his telekentic powers are given no real context or explanation as to why he has them; part of "suspension of disbelief" is helping us to suspend it, movie, you don't get carte blanche because you got us to accept groundbreaking cybernetics. The telekentic stuff feels out of place and sort of almost a deus ex machnia to make the villain more of a unstoppable "main boss" for the final battle, it's almost like the odd presentation of telekentic abilities in "Looper." It's just there because it makes things tougher for the hero(es) in the climax.
During the slower action scenes with guns and such the movie very much looks and feels like a modern-day FPS game, more active action scenes feel like your standard shaky-cam "found footage" movie and everything else (dialogue and expositional scenes) feels like segments from a FMV CD-ROM game from the mid-90s.
But, for 90 minutes of entertainment I came out pleased. If you can take the shaky-cam thing from a "found-footage" movie you can take this and I'd recommend it.
