The Zeme

Usually don't post reviews....but this was pretty horrible. The lead actress would just mumble through the whole movie. She was attractive though. The guy in the van...just weird. Not a good effort.

Nice filming location in BC, acting seems bad because they dubbed the dialog or badly mixed it due to cost cutting. The story is largely a cross between Stephen King's The Shining and Bentley Little's The Vanishing. The musical track is interesting and good at times and bad at others. A little more effort it would have been better, too much budget cutting.

The concept for the film had possibilities.

The execution was very far off the mark.

The storyline was choppy and incoherent. Even after watching the movie, I'm still not certain what a 'Zeme' is. My guess would be based on something said within the last 15 minutes of the film, but even that was tenuous at best.

The characters were underdeveloped. The relationships between the characters were similarly underdeveloped. Dialogue dubbed english over english for no apparent reason. Dubbing had mismatched emotion and tone from the scenes.

My wife and I laughed at times with how bad it was. Other times we just looked at each other in amazement as we debated when to turn it off.

Would not recommend. Would probably go with half a point as a rating if the option was there.

The acting is horrific and the plot is silly and its dubbed lol i have no idea why a film with english speaking actors would dub a film with English I DONT GET IT lol its not effective, it makes the acting seem even more worse than what it is, theres no emotion and again, WHY IS IT DUBBED? You dont dub a film where everyone speaks english anyway with english dub....

I thought the concept had potential, and it had some nice small touches here and there. But for every nice touch there was far more sloppy points, or things that didn't really add anything to the film. Overall it was truely awful.

The issues with the sound actually made me unable to finish the film. Because the dialog was much quieter than everything is, and so you couldn't turn it up to compensate, because you'd get your ears blown away by mundane noises. It also didn't line up right with the mouths, to the point it looks dubbed.

Most of the acting was pretty terrible too. Like it has a good concept, but it missed the mark for me.