Beneath the Green

Saw Eric Robert's name and said to myself "how bad can it be". 120 minute movie that should have been a 15 minute Dust short on you tube. Avoid this movie Unless you are a film student and need to write a paper on how to make a really bad movie.

The movie has no plot until it's literally spelled out on the screen. I'm guessing they were going for a Twilight Zone type of plot where there are a lot of unrelated scenes that come together in the end with some type of plot twist. It's pretty clear from the start that the start that the screenplay for this movie was shorter than this review. Amazon should remove it and replace it with a re rerun of Barnaby Jones.

Except possibly for some of the early soundtrack, this film is awful. That's A. W. F. U. L., in EVERY respect. Twilight Zone episodes are FAR better--more gripping, more entertaining, and infinitely more comprehensible! Much of the editing is simply jarring and, ultimately annoying, and does nothing to serve a storyline, or create or enhance a mood. The disembodied, floating head of victor is FAR surpassed by the wizard's head in The Wizard of Oz. The director seems to be trying to leap-frog off of 'Solaris' (1972 (russian Solyaris) and 2002 remake starring george clooney). Indeed, virtually all of the 'effects' are just way better in thousands of other films, sci-fi or otherwise. Towards the end i asked my wife to turn the dam*ed thing off. She replied that there were only 20 minutes left; it has to be one of the most wasted 20 minutes of my entire 70+ years. Maybe if you're heavily stoned or on an acid trip, this film could make you roll with mocking laughter. Really, do not bother with this one.

You folks must be doing some serious drugs... smh.

The actors were pretty decent. I was surprised to see Eric Roberts in such a role. He is a much better actor than what this movie called for. Some of the "out of body" experiences were not that great, especially the voices telling the guy to kill or sacrifice everyone.

The scenery was beautiful, for the most part. I even liked the intermittent scenes of the dilapidated shacks. It kinda put a sci-fi edge to the movie, but it came up short of a really good sci-fi.

The ending was reminiscent of a hippie commune. They were just missing the flowers in their hair.

Do better.

I'm not sure how this possibly won a single award. There must have been no other submissions. I'm it sure if it is the dry dead community theatre acting, or the terrible visual effects, the lame sound effects, the cheesy writing... it was bad y'all. How did these people convince Eric Roberts to use his floating head? I'm not even sure drug use would improve this movie, but I'm certain the writer was possibly using subpar psychedelics when he wrote "kill them, there is no such thing as death" Jason, how can you kill someone if death is fake? I have insomnia, I was hoping this would bore me to sleep, but I was horrified thinking, how did I end up here? Was watching early 2000's sci-fi and now this? So bad.

Spare yourself. Watch literally anything else.

When I saw Eric Roberts in the cast, I felt it may have been worth the risk to watch. This is 120 minutes of mush.

I found myself Googling "how does it end" because I felt some perverse need to know. Finding no relief on Google, I just did the 10 second tap to push through and all I am left with is regret. Guess the entire budget was spent on Eric as it felt they used the same cuts and locations over and over. Scenes were unnecessarily drug out waaaaay too long. The directing / plot was so thin, they needed to literally explain it to us at the end. The entire premise of this movie could have been a 10-15 short.

Just don't. Go hang out with friends or tee up any other movie than this one!