Stasis

This could have been an excellent movie, but from the first scene (post-apocalypse 2067, with heavy road traffic visible in the background) it was obvious this was going to stink. The budget was so low it couldn't even stretch to hiring actors, the universally poor performances seemingly delivered by unwitting members of the public who sounded like they were reading from a shopping list. To sum up how poor this film is, when I logged on to this site, I watched the trailer for the film. It was preceded by an ad for Ferrero Rocher which was infinitely more interesting than the entire film itself. This could have been a really good effort, even with the obviously non-existent budget, but instead it was poorly written, poorly acted, a poorly executed exercise in putting together every cliché in the genre in the least entertaining way possible. All I can really say about spoilers is this: if you actually watch this film, you'll have spoiled your evening when you could have been doing something much more interesting, like watching paint dry.

This film, absolutely terrible. The idea itself is Brilliant, however actors, terrible, acting is atrocious. I had to turn it off after 45mins, I just couldn't finish it it was so bad I don't get, its good good production value and everything, only thing I can think of is the writer and director must be useless. If you want to watch a good film like this watch 12 monkeys with Bruce willis. Brilliant film, excellent story...basically its same film as this but very good.

"Stasis" is a very low budgeted film with mostly actors with limited experience. Because of this, I tend to cut the movie some slack. Sadly, many reviewers have savaged the picture and have created the impression "Stasis" is horrible...which it isn't. It has some clever ideas and works provided you aren't expecting what you'd see in a $200,000,000 space epic!

The story begins in the hellish future. Things are awful and most of the people died as a result of wars. Now a totalitarian regime is in power and a small group of radicals are trying to undo this by manipulating time. Using volunteers, they send folks back in time in order to prevent this awful future from ever taking place.

Some of the acting is a bit weak, but again this is a cheaply made film and they gotta learn somewhere. My feeling is if you don't mind a few rough spots, give it a watch. It's now streaming on Netflix.

As already pointed out the acting is terrible. The costumes are also low quality. And do not show imagination either.

But to think the script is passable is quite silly. So a technology that was unavailable with 7 billion people is doable once there are 7 billion people less and the hundred or so individuals are split into warring clans. Right. There is no maintenance but civilization uses the same industrial plastics from before.

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I thought several of the actors had brilliant moments, but the decent moments were repeatedly clouded by actors who played very flat or unnecessarily emotion into their lines. I'd love to see this script rewritten but it is one of the poorest I've seen run.

I thought the worst aspects of the film were Eva insisting "everything is going to be fine" every night before leaving her beau, her mother's manic and somewhat overplayed outbursts followed by apologies in her next appearance at least 3 times, and multiple unresolved plot lines that left me wondering how the script moved forward without addressing what we'd just seen.

It reminded me of Tank Girl (which I actually enjoy) and seemed similarly disjointed, but it also was entirely overdramatic while trying to stay serious which didn't play well at all. If you want to get really drunk and navigate plot holes, this is the film for you.

Three out of ten because it could only be worse if all acting was terrible and the plot was less interesting.