Realive

It's more of a sad love story than a sci-fi!! Lack of drama, poorly written characters!!

A thoughtful , original and clever Science fiction with little special effects dealing with a successful and sympathetic artist called Marc : Tom Hughes , but he is really an ill of cancer who chooses cryogenic freeze to wake up in a remote future , as he hopes to be thawed and go on his life. The painter Marc sadly says goodbye to the love of his life , Naomi : Olga Chaplin, but 68 years later he discovers many surprises due to things doesn't occur in the idyllic terms he dreamed earlier dying. Immortality is only a matter of time !

"Realive" is an intriguing and thought-provoking futuristic movie blending past , present and future, including a lot of flashbacks. In the film there is intense drama , philosophy , suspense , a long love story , but it results to be slow-moving and that's why is a bit boring and tiring , though the runtime is adjusted . This pessimist picture isn't an ordinary Sci-Fi , but an intelligent , brooding parable about immortality . It is a serious and cold Sci-Fi in the wake of "Code 46" or "Gattaca" . As the narrative could have been better , but the interpretation , filmmaking and compelling backdrop are all strong . It pays tribute to "Martin Scorsese's The Last temptation of Christ" with Willem Defoe in the emotive scenes when Lazarus is brought back to life . Mateo Gil direction is pretty acceptable , however , displaying some failures , inconsistent developing throughout this strange output , but he gives an usually nice bet it you want to attempt something different if not wholly successful . Performances are uniformly good , as Tom Hughes as the young who becomes the first risen cryonized body in the history mankind , the young Brit woman and Charles Chaplin's granddaughter , Oona Chaplin, as his intimate sweetheart , the French Charlotte Le Bon as the nurse who cares for him whenever he was sick or useless , Julio Perillan as Dr. Serra , Barry Ward as West , Bruno Sevilla , Melina Matthews and cameos from Tony Corvillo and Willem Defoe .

It contains an atmospheric and adequate ciinematography by Paul Esteve . As well as sensitive and stirring musical score by Lucas Vidal . The motion picture was well and decently written and directed by Mateo Gil , though it packs some flaws . Mateo is a notorious screenwriter , as he wrote various films for Alejandro Amenabar as "Agora" , "Mar Adentro", "Abre los Ojos" and "Tesis" . And he has directed a few films as the interesting thriller : "Nobody Knows Anybody" , the romantic comedy "The Laws of Thermodynamics" and a twilight Western : "Blackthorn" . The yarn will appeal to intelligent science fiction movies enthusiasts . Rating : 6/ 10 . Acceptable and passable . Well worth watching .

Something of a mood piece leaning toward gattica over trek in styling and pace, it's a good one to watch when you've seen almost everything and have a cold or for whatever reason get stuck indoors. It's more mature sci-fi instead of talking rodents and giant smurfs.

Considering a movie has such a short time to convey complicated ideas, this film is put together well and shoots and hits at more of those targets than one would expect.

Presentation is good on all fronts. The lead role could have been written for anyone really, male or female and they had to choose one particular lifestyle to represent the story and the one they chose was OK, but some wont like it.

This is a movie that could have gone longer in many directions. The actual science of it all was done well and can serve as an example of a direction that could have gone longer. That's what a good movie does. Makes you want more.

A once watch flick that makes an impact. I'll buy it for the box art and put it on my recommend list.

I didn't read any reviews or see a trailer before watching so I had no preconceptions. Afterwards after reading the other 4 reviews I wondered what the really good reviews saw in this film. My guess is that maybe they expected a film that was less competently made, or maybe they expected a less serious film - and were surprised at how well made and serious this was. My guess also is that the obvious flaws of the film were overlooked or not noticed by them because of how well put together it is, just a guess. The problems with this film outweigh the good production and good story. Those problems are: the slow pacing; repetitiveness; morose lead actor; lack of anything stimulating and generally a drag. To give an analogy I would compare this to a college lecture by a really smart teacher who is really good at explaining the lessons but is dry and pedantic and puts students to sleep vs. an entertaining teacher who keeps students on the edge of their seats. While I am not asking this movie to be Transformers, still the script needed much more work before this was made. The story is interesting and with I imagine a limited budget they were able to pull off an impressive production, but with a boring script it ends up being a waste of time since it is so repetitive and really does not go far enough story wise. This would have worked well as the first 40 minutes of a different story, as it stands it will leave most people cold and few will stay to the end, and if they do most of them will regret it since nothing exciting or entertaining ever happens. It moves slowly and dull till the end.

Essentially there is nothing wrong with this movie other than the basic plot of the story, which bogs down in a mire of pedestrian navel gazing.There is no sci-fi here really to speak of, the future world is only vaguely referred to inside of the reanimation clinic. On the plus side its visually great, and Québécois super hottie Charlotte Le Bon gets her bum out, that alone makes this a must-see.