The Other Side of the Mirror

With the tag-line " The darker side of the mirror " i had some hopes of this movie. With a really good original story about the break between childhood and growing up, i hoped that this was some kind of dark sequel like what we have with the wizard of Oz. Instead what we get is what i assume is the local cos-player/ civil war re-enactment/ steam-punk group trying their hardest to act without any kind of budget.

As Director,writer,producer and editor 95% of the blame fall on Zach Hamer - the rest goes to whomever decided to have loud license free music play the whole time during the movie!

A small tip to Zach here - when you introduce a character ( bad, good or mysterious ) ,let them do something that makes us care ( bad , good or mysterious ). This was 2 hours of characters we had absolutely no interest in. To see what i mean, watch the Tim Burton Alice movie again and watch what all new characters do within the first two minutes of screen time.

A small tip to anyone thinking about watching this movie: get the game Alice: Madness Returns on steam instead. Better story and characters you care about. ( also much darker mature story, so nothing for the weak of heart. )

the primary problem is the overly loud, annoying and terrible music soundtrack, which is so loud compared to the actors voices that I gave up watching this after 10 minutes, it was giving me a migraine, the script must have been written by a 7 year old child or a total moronic imbecile. Save your money don't rent or buy this piece of total rubbish wait for the new Disney version of Alice and go see that one instead. I just cannot believe anyone invested to produce this monstrosity it most certainly will not make any money. I usually enjoy watching the copy-cat movies that precede the big studio releases and in a few cases enjoyed some of them much more than the big budget productions, but this one left me thoroughly disappointed.

I held on for over 20 minutes, giving it chance after painful chance, gritting my teeth and praying for it to redeem itself. Sadly, it didn't. My dogs could do better. There wasn't the slightest preparation or respect for the craft. This seemed more the product of a bunch of stoned teenagers who think they're really deep and enlightened than it did any real filmmakers. The acting was flippant, lazy, and just bad. (If you're gonna play a Catholic and draw attention to that fact, learn how to cross yourself without looking like a claymation character.) I could go on all day, and I barely followed her down the hole. For the love of all things Alice, don't do it.

(Update: It's been a couple of years now, and I came across this title on Tubi. I instantly remembered just how gag-worthy the entire thing was and decided to come leave a review having completely forgotten I'd left one the first time. It's simply that revolting...for me to actually feel the need, years later, to warn the general public about 20 of the worst cinematic moments of my life. As a writer, I've only given a handful of one-star reviews, always looking for some redeeming qualities in the artistic work of others. I almost wonder if they went out of their way to make it as terrible as they possibly could; some crazy Yoko Ono performance art crapfest. Just don't...)

Literally the worst acting I've ever seen in my life. This is an amateur B movie and the acting is awful by even those standards. Anyone involved with making or "acting" in this "film" should find a new line of work. It's current 3.0 rating is waaaaay too high. I've neve3r been more outraged by something for wasting my time in such a way. You can't find any kind of entertainment value in it being so bad like with sharknado because it takes itself too seriously despite sucking so bad. If I ever see anything like this ever again I may lose all hope for humanity for producing something so dreadfully abysmally bad. Anyone involved should be blacklisted from every producing anything that could ever be viewed by anyone for the rest of time.

Why doesn't IMDB have a negative number. Sharknado is at 0 in my books, but this is exponentially worse. Whoever thought that putting this out there to the public, needs a reality check. The scenery, the wardrobe, the hair styles, well pretty much everything is put together like a preschool church play. The is beyond low budget. They didn't even try. A silent film would have been better than the lack of intelligent dialogue. But, then you would still hear that driven to insanity continuing horrid soundtrack. This feels like the work of millenials expecting to get paid for participating or just showing up to work. Their is no love in this, no feeling in this, no sense of pride. You could have tried. I watched this as far as 3/4 and knew my brain was going to suffer from lack of intelligent input, but I kept on with the torture. Watching paint dry as a comparison cheapens the idea of watching paint dry. There's more value in watching worthless late night infomercials on public channels geared at the elderly with too much time on their hands. I don't even think the cheapest and worst designed camera should have been used to capture this mess. This is like a 20 year old design student turning in a drawing of a stick figure man of a three year old using a million dollar design program. I believe more thought went into the first word of my review than the entirety of this trash. A meth head in the final stages of life could have done better. That anyone gave this better than one star is beyond me. And don't say it was good for the fans. This was a travesty to anything remotely related to anything Alice or the fan base.