Project Eden

Two thirds of this was an OK mystery thriller - low budget - but suddenly it lurched into a different genre, which I will call "Pseudo religious mashup weird (But in a bad way)" I wasn't going to post this, as I prefer to share good experiences, but eventually decided a warning was appropriate! A grudging 2 - mostly for the Imagine Dragons outro music! :)

Incredible rubbish. I really don't know what else to write about it. The prompter won't let me stop at just incredible rubbish. It tells me my review is too short but there is nothing else to say about it.

Very good movie. It's a low budget movie, but have a very spiritual core. The Actors are good, and the sound track very well chosen.

95% of the movie was Evelyn on the run. Last 5% was hogwash. Basically no ending.

There's enough good photography, well edited, occasional profound sound, and well above average acting, with personable leads, villeins and characterisations, well cast, to make this a reasonable enjoyable experience provided your expectations are not beyond indie. The plot is at first paper-thin, with what seemed to me to be holes, with a script to match, but not so much you'd call it a B-movie. The opening sequence, for example, isn't recalled at all in the picture, and is, I suppose, some sort of segue way? (forgive my lack of vocabulary there!) Unfortunately it's a little predictable with things happening a tad slowly until the third act when the viewer can start to reengage, with profound plot twists and unexpected new horizons. It reminded me a bit of Vanilla Sky. It's that sort of 'what's going on'. As this movie leads to a second instalment I have to reserve judgement from here. The concept is sound, but, like many indie films, one often wonders if the project got the go ahead too early, and may well have benefited from more pre-production.