Arcadia

People who view this as fiction are drinking fluoridated H2O & are sedated into believing that everything is fine! Wakeup....either pay attention & learn something or simply enjoy an entertaining film. Similar scenarios are already happening & depicted here in a well written script. If you don't believe at least know that this film is fascinating & fun to view! I really enjoyed watching this movie but it scared me as well!

This rather dreary little film is certainly among the very lowest budget films that I have ever seen in my long life. It tries hard, but there is very little, if anything, about this that is surprising. It's about a disease that has taken over the world, but the story is more about the haves and the have-nots. The "haves" live in a fortress where they live for up to 130 years and the 'have-nots", who live in the outside world, only live until about forty years of age. There are lotteries that require people on the outside to do various tasks to score points and when they reach that point, they can enter the fortress and live longer lives. If you cannot predict the outcome for these people playing along with this lottery, you have not seen many movies. The only compliment I can come up with for this film is the credible performance given by the lead, Marc Baylis. However, he is not enough reason to watch this.

This movie was solid.

I do not understand the low reviews.

The plot is sound, even with the deep politics. The acting is decent. The dialogue is not bad.

This film relates well to COVID-19 at its worst; so, I figure the reviews would be great from US Republicans and Democrats.

In the future, a disease has spread around the world which leaves people dead upon reaching forty. After the chaos of wars and governmental collapses, a new totalitarian regime has risen in London which only offers a cure to its people inside the safe city of Arcadia. There is a lottery to allow people into Arcadia. Charlie works for Arcadia and is desperate to gain entry for himself and his daughter. He is assigned to capture Adam Black, a member of resistance movement 'Free Care'.

This is a British low budget sci-fi indie with some simple effects. This is mostly filmed in what looks like suburban homes and in the woods. It makes the high tech sci-fi story stall. It doesn't help with the sound quality either. The acting is best described as functional amateurism. The most important aspect is the premise of the movie. The writers are obviously trying to say something about health care. It's trying to be a high-concept sci-fi but the concept needs some more work. It doesn't really get pass a secondary questioning. If Arcadia actually exists, the world would be at its door either threatening it or begging for it to share the cure. This movie construction is simply not built properly. It's a step above film school but a big step below good festival material.

Well more an OK film and a 5 from me.

The best part of this film for me was the script and overall story. As the script and story itself was very good, certainly deserving of a far bigger budget and better design and location shooting.

I'm not going to analyze the film scene by scene as clearly there is script padding. But it's a reasonable and thought provoking realistic vision on how some may well eventually envisage the future of mankind in a way in the future when population numbers may well start to outstrip resources to feed it. Conspiracy theorists will say this will happen in the future to try and control the population.

Acting was OK, certainly a miss match of acting abilities between some of the actors (maybe reasons for that as seemed a rushed production at times). Sadly production values, well more the budget was seriously lacking with this film. And what could have been more a 7 out of 10 for me is sadly a more realistic 5.