Black Road

The acting seemed adequate, the location was well-suited to the film's setting, and I didn't think that the movie suffered too much by its budget. However, it seemed to me that the premise of the movie -- a near-future where the brain could directly link with the computer -- was clamped onto a pedestrian mystery plot. What the movie needed above all else was a decent, polished script. Without it, we are left with a movie that tends to plod and doesn't make much sense. What the makers should have done is raise another million dollars and given it to a master scriptwriter for a rewrite. There were the seeds of something much better here.

Fun story. Easy to watch. They made it for 100k, so don't expect the moon. The main protagonist's life is a mess. It only gets worse tracking down an old lover and getting caught up in a living nightmare. Would have been cool to have more of the "android" functioning, but then his tension with this implant is also interesting. It's film-noir so the protagonist is fallible. The whole tone of the story is dark. The ending keeps you guessing about how things went down. Many of the negative comments here are ungrounded in the budget restrictions this crew had. It's absolutely amazing what they were able to accomplish for the price tag. T

Gotta give these people credit for creating the idea of a future world. Not only with cyborg and AI tech. But the idea of magic. What with the magic black eyes and black zombie chewing tobacco. But the execution of it is severely lacking. Too many things all thrown together that don't really ad anything to the story. And so many things left unexplained and an overall weak story. The story could have just as easily taken place present day. The whole deal with the state of Jefferson wasn't needed. It could be any small back water town. The cyborg and AI tech could be done away with easily. The main character could've just called his hacker friend a couple of times during the movie. I mean, so much. I really really wanted to like it. But just couldn't so much so it actually prompt me to not only rated my first movie on here - but write my first review on like a 10 year old account. I would enjoy watching a movie set in the writers future setting some day.

This should be a series not a movie. Too much to unpack and too little time. The concept is great just the movie is rushed and there's no real message or meaning. It needs 10 episodes to flesh it out. I see huge potential of Netflix or someone digs in.

The other reviewers with starry reviews probably got a dog in the fight, cause even a lobotomized zombie on crack will stay away from this stench of a movie. Acting is so bad that it made me cringe.

Wanna be director just need to go to film school - i don't even say "go back to film school" cause he obviously he never attended one or missed a lot of courses. I've seen wedding videos less cheesy than than.

I can't even say that CG are bad, they're just middle of the road, looking like some template from After Effects found on the net - it's just they're badly composited/integrated. I've seen amateurs on youTube doing way better than that with DV footage processed on a laptop.

But the worst, definitely is the acting part, or its lack of, once you passed the point where this "Sci-Fi" thing looks really that it got shot in rural Oregon last summer, missing all nice landscapes and scenery though. Adding a blue light to a barn doesn't make it look techy, film boys. You got a lot to learn in front of you. First and foremost would be how not to bore to death your unfortunate audience.