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Interesting concept, the movie was a bit slow to get to the really interesting parts, and spent way too little time exploring the full potential of what was possible. I blame the budget for the budget for this. That being said, the film as watchable. I wold also want to add that the entire idea was a bit derivative, but also had its own unique twist. A movie version of platos allegory of the cave, are we real? Are our dreams real?

At some point these matrix like remakes will get it jst right and create something that will shine a new light on exitence as a whole.

I particularly liked the perfomance of David Hewlett, I have liked his roles ever since Stargate Atlantis. He was the main reason I kept watching. The lead female role was also done well. CGI could have been better.

Welcome to the future, where everything is computerized but Siri still sounds like a computer from the 80's. I almost turned off the movie solely based on that annoying Siri voice.

"Levels" is the brainchild of Adam Stern and I think would do fairly good as a book, but here the casting is just horrible, it seems like they just took the first two actors that were available and the pacing of the movie is too slow and gets really boring at parts. The actors are not horrible, but here their performance is flat, and their chemistry is non-existent.

Adam Stern's got some hurdles to overcome before he can deliver a real blockbuster. For now, it's a niche indie film, likely drawing in Cara Gee fans from The Expanse, but unlikely to reach a broader audience.

Watch if you are a hardcore indie/sci-fi fan, I don't think I would recommend this otherwise it's just a dull watch. Exact score: 44 / 100.

A mish mash of themes and tropes from movies that done them far better. There really isn't anything remotely original. The writing is flat and the actors don't seem to be very invested, I've seen far better acting during daytime soap operas. Cara Gee did OK but even she seemed to be phoning it in.

Nothing feels lived in, it feels like it is, them on a bad set with bad lighting and bad set design with no budget.

The special effects are early 90s level of bad. Lots of unnecessary lens flares and really, really, really bad green screen backgrounds. There's a weird soft fuzzy filter over everything.

The pacing is slow. It's really not exciting at all. Trying to be futuristic everything they touch bleeps and bloops.

As a hard core lover of everything scifi this was really disappointing. It doesn't even fit into "it's so bad it's good" territory.

There is nothing gained from watching this movie.

For Sci-Fi fans, you may watch It... for regular folks, I'd say skip It.

I did like this movie a bit, but a lot of scenes don't have Impact as It should have been (could have been elevated by editing or camera movements)

The movie pacing In this one is just slow and boring sometimes...

While some fighting scenes I did like (It wasnt very over the top)... Some dialogue Is well crafted.

The plot Is a mess and full of plot holes... It starts to lose any sense at the end.

While this movie budget was small, the CGI mostly did It's job... but It's still 'modern' world.

This movie is like a Matrix but made by Indie and with less Impact.

Disclosure: I could only stand the first half of the movie. If anything significant happened at the second half, that I do not know.

The movie starts slow and progresses even slower. At a few times when you feel the pace is building up, it goes down again.

Acting is dull and forced. I tried to justify that by the theme of the movie but my personal legends like Amanda Tapping and. David Hewlett both deliver solid performances. The rest of the cast, unfortunately, need to learn from them and have a long way ahead.

Simple story aside, the conversations are also simple, shallow, uninspiring. I saw no creativity or even slightly entertaining part in any section. I felt like the movie tried to inspire some philosophical debate but falls short on each and every level.

To sum up, this should have been a much better experience. It wasn't.

Other reviews contrasting this Canadian production (presumably lower budget, but unsurprisingly good acting) with Free Guy and Matrix aren't wrong, but what we see with this entry into that universe is not only visually appealing (all three films have had mind-bending special effects), but shows a bit of heart and soul. It feels less mass produced. So what was needed was a bit more work on the development of the characters, a bit more plot development. I acknowledge the criticism of another reviewer that the exposition feels a bit dogmatic, but davka (actually, for me) that is necessary for the precious little character development we do have here, so I wouldn't have edited that out. Rather, I'd have added to the run-time a bit, to flesh out all of the characters, precisely because, in a digital universe, personality and individuality begins to matter in this one. Perhaps...our choices do matter.

Joe (Peter Mooney) seems to be jumping from world to world. He encounters Ash (Cara Gee), Hunter (Aaron Abrams), Oliver (David Hewlett), and a gun. The first thirty minutes are a confusing bore. Then comes the long info dump. It's not a good way to start and connect with these characters. For this sci-fi indie, the writing is the problem. There is no advantage to leaving the reveal late in the process. It needs to explain this world sooner. In the end, it doesn't sound wild enough. The acting is pretty good for a lower budget sci-fi. The special effects are fine. The movie probably lost me in the first 30 minutes.

Whilst the script could have used refinement, some of the visual gimmicks were heavy handed, at the heart of this story is real substance. Unlike a lot of Hollywood movies, especially in genre adjacent stuff, this movie feels like it has a genuine human element as well as a sort of wistful philosophy befitting the subject material.

The special effects are beyond what one would expect from a low budget, and indeed so is the acting, which successfully sells the premise. On the downside there's a little too much exposition and as mentioned before reliance on visual gimmicks.

But where you can watch most blockbuster movies and feel like you've been exposed to no real new ideas, or effected by the premise, the heart this movie has makes the sci-fi experience more personal - as science fiction should be, a reflection of our human experience.

All told, worth a watch IMO.

It's a complete disappointment. The first thing I criticize is the music. The music of the movie is terrible. A movie soundtrack is definitely very important. The music that plays in this movie is classical. But the movie is science fiction. The other important thing is the plot. The script may be good, but the plot is very important. Jumping from topic to topic will take the viewer away from the movie. Also the actors. The actress definitely plays so badly that I would never want to see her again. Also the actor is not very good. Science fiction has been tried, but this is only in communication networks. In other words, when technology advances, it advances in the entire universe. For example, the fact that cars are the same, but almost all communication tools are made with eyes is a complete fiasco. I think no expense was spared for this movie. Because all the scenes were generally shot in the same place.

In short, it is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

Look, I'm not saying that my 'Taste', such as it is, is the be-all, end-all of everything, but people are rating this movie a '5'? I mean, really, how many films not only have such a great concept, I feel one of the best since 'THE MATRIX', and are written, directed, and acted this well do we really come across these days? I mean with THIS kind of quality? And people rate it a '5'... Nonsense...

I don't know what people would want in a good, serious, 'Hard' Science Fiction story these days that this movie doesn't offer. More explosions, more killing, more effects? But, to me, being an avid Science Fiction lover ever since I could read, this is truly one of the better, well made films that I've seen in quite a while.

The main quality here is an extremely intriguing idea that is presented I feel in a very effective, exciting, and most entertaining way. Yes, there are films with more 'Action' in them like the Iconic 'TERMINATOR' (1 & 2) 'TOTAL RECALL', and such, and yeah, they are great Sci Fi films, no question. But, this is a much deeper concept driven story that really wows more in the area of the 'What is Real and what Isn't' theme, along with a great sense of Mystery and suspense, not to mention excellent writing and good performances. I mean, to me, I REALLY felt for that fellow in the beginning, powerfully so, and the only way you get that is through an extremely well done performance and this was one of them.

So, basically, if you appreciate or enjoy Science Fiction movies that have a bit more of a 'Hard' Sci Fi, technologically driven story that has the bonus of being very well made and well acted, then yes, you should absolutely have fun with this one, it will take you on quite a journey.

I gave this one what I feel is a VERY well deserved '8', not the completely puzzling '5' that it has now.

MOST HIGHLY Recommended!

Good acting, interesting premise, good special effects (for it's budget) this movie has it all except that it is utterly boring. It's like Free Guy after they sucked every ounce of fun out of it. Cara Gee (the Expanse) couldn't save this movie from being bland but she is definitely a good watching point. The premise is interesting and while we have seen similar premises in Free Guy, Matrix and Inception we have never seen this exact premise in any movie that I know of. It could be a very interesting movie but it failed. I am being generous giving it 5 stars because it was made competently but it is so boring and after you know what is going on then it is just unbearable to watch and the final twist doesn't make up for it even though it's quite clever. This movie is barely watchable once, I would never sit through it a second time.

Okay, this is ridiculous straight from the start with the cheesy "Do you like coffee" after the typical sleazy dude ogles a customer in the book store where he works. Talk about lame, as well as telegraphing the the forced/fake relationship.

And at that point I hit the stop and delete buttons for this worthless waste of film. There's no reasonable recovery after such a swiss cheese entry and I refuse to torment myself with the nonsense that will no doubt follow.

Oh and IMDb needs to lessen the required characters needed to post a review, and especially with this type of tripe.

Avoid at all cost.

This movie had a lot going for it, great special effects, good acting (with exception for the leading man unfortunately, sorry), great concept, *some* wonderful dialogue... it was so close to being great but it fell short in several unnecessary ways. For how stunning (most of) the special effects were the set design fell flat on multiple occasions. It was odd, some set pieces were wonderful, the book store and apartments clearly were made with care, but other sets were barren, nothing but some basic chairs and tables and plastic plants, or an out of place dumpster in a too-clean alley. If they had just spent some extra time making the whole movie feel as alive as the apartments and the book store it would have made a huge impact.

But I suppose "should have spent more time" is a theme for my criticisms here, the movie was only 90 minutes even though it could have easily been two hours without seeming bloated. An extra couple of minutes here and there for character development would have gone a long way, the movie as it is felt a little like the cliff notes of someone's emotional journey.

Overall it felt like it was missing a dimension of something, some spark of life or emotion that was present at times but not consistently enough to hold together. It felt rushed, which is a shame because if they spent more time on set design, character development, and casting a leading man, then this could really have been a movie worth recommending. As it stands it was enjoyable, I don't regret watching it and I don't expect to watch it again.

And don't get me started on the misleading poster, I watched this movie because I love Cara Gee in The Expanse, but that image in no way reflects the movie is saw. Don't get me wrong, she did a great job and I enjoyed her character but they must have changed the movie drastically at some point or they just willingly mislead their audience.

The actors except for a few exceptions are solid, sadly one of them is the lead.

It started off fine, a bit of mystery, until about 20% in where they dump all the info about what is really happening.

The writer definitely does not read any Scifi, because out of all the possibilities this has got to be the lamest story lines I could imagine, as soon as I realised there is nothing clever the movie really went down hill.

Its basically just sims, crossed with the Matrix with a bit of action on top. All comes off as a very poor rip of some aspects of the Matrix without any of its depth. We even have a bit of "bullet time" special effects.

They ignored the "show dont tell" which would have made the movie better. And exactly why you should care about a game of sims as some sort of crime against humanity is just ridiculous.

Well, you can't refuse to watch a Canadian sci-fi film starring Cara Gee and featuring David Hewlett. Bonus points for Amanda Tapping's voice!

It is a proper science fiction story, not perfectly told, though. The pacing is slow, a lot of things happen for no good reason and the whole underlying drive for the plot is a bit... too Canadian? The budget is probably tiny, so I think they did a good thing with what they got.

Without spoiling things too much, although every plot twist is pretty much telegraphed from the very beginning, it's a decent science fantasy romance with some over the top conclusions and a very classical plot.

One thing that did bother me was a movie poster that has nothing to do with reality (heh!) and the trailer featuring every single CGI scene worth its salt from the movie. Why do that when your whole concept is empathy, truth and human value?

Bottom line: don't expect too much, it feels more like an anthology series episode that got stretched to a feature movie length. I probably liked it more for nostalgic reasons.

This is an excellent science fiction story, with competent production values, and a great performance by Cara Gee (The Expanse). If you appreciate science (the first part of Sci-Fi), then this movie is for you. The story and EXCELLENT conclusion, present cogent scientific principles which are far more compelling than the movie it initially appears to analogize.

It is unfortunate in this day and age that the consumer market demands the simplicity of a comic-book videogame superhero plot, which has little relation to actual science, but remains misnomered as "Science Fiction" -- hence rebranding of the SyFy channel to preclude actual science, for monsters and sharknados. And yes, halfway through Alien: Romulus, I found the story about as interesting as a Scooby-Doo cartoon, and stopped watching. Sorry to those of you who imagine that monsters, demi-gods, and over-the-top violence are "science."

The fact that this movie has multiple "LEVELS" (thus the title) and a sophisticated ending does not make it mediocre. Rather, it is viewer dissatisfaction with a primarily cerebral story which apparently garners fewer stars.

My husband and I really enjoyed this film, and I'm not usually into scu-fi. The cinematography and special effects were very well done and the romantic angle was intriguing. The actors portrayed their characters well, especially the actress who played Ash and Erica, who played the assistant to the bad guy, and don't let me forget the Oliver character who, come to think about it, was so good you could forget that he was acting.

I wish that more independent filmmakers had the opportunity to present their work in major theatres because, as this movie proves, there is a lot of incredible talent out there.

The plot is quite good. You really have to pay attention when your watching it. It is heavy into parallel worlds and simulation theory. I applauded it when the credits rolled. One of the best movies I have seen this year. Sure its not a action packed movie. The effects are outstanding and the characters are well done. The writer and the director was the same person and with all of the theories about parallel worlds this movie uses that premise to its advantage. The story requires your full attention to detail as it appears to jump around but all of it is explained if you watch it until the end.

This one gets it right.

With an outstanding cast and a wonderful showcasing of an idea yet to be put into film?

It's a triumph in Science Fiction.

I judge all the films like I'm stuck in 90's. I try not to allow previous films to distort my judgement of things to follow.

But in this case...?

It didn't matter.

First of its kind for this generation.

Highly recommended.

I felt the compilation of loved actors, the quality of the film itself, and a plot worth entertaining kept me engaged from beginning to end.

It;s a concept we've all toy'd with in our minds, but have not seen this well delivered to film in some time.

A welcome addition to our collection of science fiction classics.

Vi.