One Under the Sun

I always try and find a positive about everything I watch, but this movie is an unmitigated disaster from the first scene to the last. Truly terrible acting, an incoherent script, confused directing and no one really seemed to know what to make of this mess in the editing suite. Do not waste a moment of your time with this. Sadly, I did. Abominable.

Begin (15 minutes) is OK , even if actors' acting comes straight from B movie type. Then it gets a bit chaotic and certainly not any better acting wise. Semi technology. Would be "interesting" actors talking science stuff that is all very obvious fake, so called technology. For me a waste of time.

This movie is so horribly produced, I don't even know where to begin. For starters, the cinematography looks like it was shot with an Iphone or 90's VHS camcorder. Poor composition and sound plague the movie from the start and it only gets worse. It is especially evident that little effort was expended on the production when the mic boom bobs into the lower portion of the frame during the scene where she initially wakes up in quarantine following her 'mysterious' survival of the spacecraft's return to Earth. As for the acting, it couldn't have been more unconvincing and disingenuous if the producers had picked random people off the street to portray the characters. In addition to the technical faults of this film, the story line and 'science' elements are poorly considered and show a complete lack of understanding of the actual science they are trying to convey. Overall, this 'film' is 1 hour and 41 minutes of mind-numbing absurdity. Unless you have 2 hours of your life that you would like to just toss away, don't waste your time on this atrocity. If I could give it a zero, I would.

You cannot blame the writer for the movie being bad, but she contributed by writing a story that needed clarification at every step. Even the ending left the feeling that you wanted to read the original story because nothing was explained or resolved. Artsy films can leave you with different interpretation at the end but in this case it left without any interpretation. OK so much for the pretentious story but the director did not get any good acting from the actors….i guess they were as much in the dark as we were on where this movie was going. Some movies can do a lot with little budget but this movie did not even bother to conceal that it was working on a low budget; the creepy government figures using cell phones to discuss top secret info. The super secure facility that looked like a common office building, the shoddy camera angles….it all distracted from what was supposed to be a serious movie with a message from the stars. I tried to like the movie…I really did but the holes in the story, the poor acting and the low budget was too much to overlook.

Here is another one of these films that is horrible but has a high score, 71% of voters scored it a 10! Will it win multiple Oscars? LOL not! Us longer term members on IMDb know that sadly ratings on IMDb have nothing to do with the truth, and any hope that we used to have on here via the forum part is a thing of the past, and makes me wonder what direction IMDb is going too, but back to this blockbuster (LOL), acting is horrible, camera work is done with a handy cam, the music stinks, with other words this film has nothing going for it. I can't really comment on the story line as I could only take about 30 minutes of this rubbish, don't waste your time on this as life is just to short.

I gave it a zero out of 10 and I am sure the score of 8.4 won't last!