Anti Matter

It's a low-budget film, and actually, they make the budget go a long way. I liked the story, the acting was fine, and the production design and effects were spot on. I do agree with some reviewers that it could lose 10 minutes near the end. I hope we get to see more from this writer/director.

I had no idea this was a low budget/indie film until I read that it was. Keep in mind there are no high tech CGI gimmicks as far as I can tell and no famous Hollywood actors in it. Still, the film was good, much better than the usual low budget drivel. The acting was really good. The director must have made a choice to not use his limited budget on CGI and that must be a good decision because low budget CGI makes a movie look like low budget. Low budget usually also shows in the props and studio setting that is used. Again, good choices must have been made so that the low budget is hidden. Excellent work. I can only imagine what this crew can do with more $$$. Thanks

I have said before that if I had a dollar for every "auteur" indie (where the writer and director were one and the same) that aimed for the stars but kept hitting the floor, well, I could retire.

But for every dozen or so indies that hit a brick wall, one soars. This is the one that soars.

Indeed it aims high, turning what looks like a basic "sci fi experiment gone wrong" into an existential crisis of the soul.

But it succeeds, astonishingly, at being both entertaining and bemusing.

I was glued to the screen from the beginning to the end. That seldom happens.

The actors, the script, the direction, all remind me of Hitchcock at his peak. YOU CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO THESE PEOPLE.

And the editing, OMG. This is the first film I can recall where aggressive editing was used instead of complex SFX. The editing is beyond brilliant, it moves the audience at a visceral level from scene to scene.

Recommended.

I can just suffice to tell you this film has a low-budget/student film feel in all of the movie's aspects (writing, editing, flow), so you'll need have patience with everything as you watch.

I guess all positive reviews (e.g. Rotten Tomatoes) seem to keep this in mind but this is not made clear, which has most likely lead to these (in my eyes) problematic recommendations.

If you are expecting a mature or commercial film like I was, move on, as I can tell you I went in with that mindset and was quickly bored here.

There is a philosophical component to the plot of the movie. I think that ruined it. Other than that, it started cool, the pace was good, the story was interesting, I was hooked. Then, at about half, the entire thing turned into the old "what is going on? Am I insane or is it real?" cliché which I personally abhor. And then the ending explained some things, but didn't really make me understand why I spent a quarter of a movie watching scenes that didn't make sense. And then it ended with a weak "don't play god" thing.

I really wanted it to be more than a back of a napkin plot twist at the end, but it wasn't. So much setup for something that was basically a butt of a joke. Physics doesn't turn into metaphysics just because you equate apples with oranges.

Bottom line: it started great and it fizzled in the end. The structure of the movie was good and the ending was artistic enough to not really matter in the overall story.