Realive

I didn't read any reviews or see a trailer before watching so I had no preconceptions. Afterwards after reading the other 4 reviews I wondered what the really good reviews saw in this film. My guess is that maybe they expected a film that was less competently made, or maybe they expected a less serious film - and were surprised at how well made and serious this was. My guess also is that the obvious flaws of the film were overlooked or not noticed by them because of how well put together it is, just a guess. The problems with this film outweigh the good production and good story. Those problems are: the slow pacing; repetitiveness; morose lead actor; lack of anything stimulating and generally a drag. To give an analogy I would compare this to a college lecture by a really smart teacher who is really good at explaining the lessons but is dry and pedantic and puts students to sleep vs. an entertaining teacher who keeps students on the edge of their seats. While I am not asking this movie to be Transformers, still the script needed much more work before this was made. The story is interesting and with I imagine a limited budget they were able to pull off an impressive production, but with a boring script it ends up being a waste of time since it is so repetitive and really does not go far enough story wise. This would have worked well as the first 40 minutes of a different story, as it stands it will leave most people cold and few will stay to the end, and if they do most of them will regret it since nothing exciting or entertaining ever happens. It moves slowly and dull till the end.

Ambitious, not often successful story of a young man who made his way of life triumphantly,and who ,terminally-ill ,chooses cryogenic freeze , to be able to "realive" in the future when the science,in the shape of Dr West (a nod to the excellent "re-animator " feat. Jeffrey Combs ), is able to give him a second chance in another era .

Although there's numerous hints at religion (the Lazarus project :"lazarus ,come forth !"), the fact that immortality may make gain another world but lose your soul ;in fact ,you want to find back what you've lost , but time moves like a jet plane and it's a brand new world you have to face .

Thanks to a brand new technology ,you can record your memories (why not? A hundred years ago ,who would have thought of the computering revolution? ),but those memories are a jumble,for they come from every moment of your life ( cruelty to animals -the lizard and the hen-is gratuitous and pointless);besides , Naomi ,to do what she does ,must have experimented l'amour fou and nothing really shows it (unless a would be torrid sex scene counts);besides, Marc's impossibility to adapt himself to another way of life (the new sex lib is not that much new ,it recalls the hippies) is not fully exploited :it was already brillantly treated in Frankenheimer's sensational film ,"seconds"(1966)

This film is interesting but it is mainly a missed golden opportunity.

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.

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

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