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Here is another film that has a blimming decent concept going for it, but got lazy and sat on its bum for 90 min.

The acting isn't bad at all and some decent script writing. Unfortunately there seems to be some major budget constraints as the sets were minimal and not enough exposure of what exactly was going on.

The story went back and forth a bit too many times but did manage to tie into itself at the end. There should have been way more explainations offerred and more scenes backing the explainations.

Overall, it wasn't that bad of a film but it also wasn't super either. Maybe one day with a bigger budget, a remake will make the story pop!

Good try chaps - but for me, you only get 5 out of 10 stars.

A group of people wake up in an alien room attached to an alien apparatus apparently in an alien spacecraft. Sera has spent her life being experimented on in an alien machine. John Brighton works for defence. Perry is a prisoner. Rhonda is a high school teacher. Alex is a French prostitute. Zack Chase is a rock star.

It's a small sci-fi. It tries to limit itself. It's a functional sci-fi premise. There is one nice sci-fi reveal. It works but the movie gives too much away earlier on. Once the reveal happens, the movie really needs to build on that momentum. There are actually two revelations and I like both of them. It needs to explain them and dig into them. Essentially, it puts the car into second gear and fails to go any higher. The actors are fine. The opening reveals too much which should have been left to later. The movie stumbles to take it to the next level.

I really wish IMDB would screen reviewers. The other two either are friends of the actors or paid by the production company.

Bad acting, boring and snail pace movement with no direction. What else... bad writing, ridiculous special effects and just plain blahhhh.

It is mostly just a group of people (and yes, they know each other...mostly) with no acting skills talking with occasional flashback that made no sense. Difficult to follow and hard to watch. Also a bad version of the Matrix's Oracle (an obvious copy), and I'm still trying to work out the 'Generals' rank with staff sergeant stripes? pips changed from 3 to 1 during the movie, perhaps someone could enlighten me.

Don't waste your time, not even worthy of a B grade, a 2 because I was having a good day.

Greetings from Lithuania.

"Project Ithaca" (2019) had its moments and had a potential - i liked the concept (main idea), but unfortunately the execution wasn't any good. The plot left me confused, but its not its biggest fault - biggest fault (and there are many of them), is that this movie had any character development - i did not care about anyone or anything here. Also dialog were only like exposition - its like characters were trying to explain the plot to each other and audiences during the whole movie, which at running time 1 h 24 min. dragged.

Overall, this movie wasn't well made and had a very confusing plot. Add here a small budget and zero creativity to the material, and you have a bad movie. Its not a worst movie ever, but that does not give it additional points.

OK... so I guess the new definition of "Science Fiction" nowadays is "Let's throw out all logic and see what happens". It's either that or, given the fact that so many BS-laden blockbusters exist, I guess many wannabe movie directors think they can get away with anything, as long as they show a black old woman acting as an oracle. Anyway, this movie never gets to be really entertaining because the plot is all over the place. Recklessly spilling random sciency-sounding jargon only makes things worse, pulling those of us who have an IQ over 90 away from suspension of disbelief.

First of all, I have nothing to do with the folks who made this film. No bias here, just my honest opinion. Well, maybe a little bias since I'm a sci-fi nut in general.

I thought the story held together decently. Not perfect but I've seen worse... Acting was decent, effects were decent... I'd watch it again.

Not sure why so many dislike it, I'm gonna go with "matter of taste".

Not a block buster but not horrible either. Perhaps watch it as a "warm up movie" on your movie evening, then you'll still have something better to watch IF you don't like this one.

I wonder who the advisor was for this movie. The very second I saw a lieutenant general with Sergeant strips on his uniform, I was done. Any movie that is this shabby in it's preparation it's not worth watching.

I'm not affiliated with anyone, trust me, this is a REAL review by an 80s lovin' chick who's a sci-fi freak/fan. Luv outerspace & underwater movies the most, usually the ones that aren't but should be "blockbusters" and after reading the reviews, I honestly cannot believe I gave this one a shot...but I did & I really liked it!! Definitely worth my time and this was the 4th movie I started watching on this free Showtime weekend that I A) actually finished & B) actually liked!

It's a totally original storyline concept for me from my own personal viewing experience. The acting was so much better than I anticipated after reading the reviews and the only thing that really annoyed me was all the f-bombs that were dropped. Seriously, there are other swear words people (meaning you, the writers!). When that happens, it just seems like the writers were just plain lazy or didnt realize how dumb it sounds after awhile....sorry, got off track there for a sec...it bugged me, 'nuff said.

Special effects weren't bad either! The ship & earth were very pretty *wink wink* and the tentacles & other ship/alien stuff inside/outside were your standard "Alien-ness" BUT were NOT so CGI that it looked transposed onto the film afterwards. So, I was impressed and trust me, that says alot about this movie in particular.

I don't think you'll regret giving this a shot. It was so much better than any of the "Originals" from Netflix & Hulu in the last 2yrs no matter the Genre. When you do watch it, there's a 20 second additional scene after the first set of credits which kinda confused me but that's okay!

I really wish IMDb would screen reviews and not allow the ones by people like andrewrye who don't know what an opinion is. This movie wasn't great and was kind of a head scratcher but was not that bad. The acting was decent and so were the creature effects.

Yawn. I tried. Really I did. I managed to tough it out till about midway but one too many scenes that drag on managed to conk me out. Had to restart in the middle and power through the remainder of the movie.

The first thing that clued me in to how bad this was going to be when I spotted General Boreland about 5 minutes in with three stars on his shoulder epaulets along with Staff Sergeant stripes on his sleeves!?! Apparently the army surplus store where they got their costumes didn't clue them in to rank structure (or maybe they did)

The majority of the movie was shot in a poorly lit interior where the actors were restrained by snakelike tentacles and mostly covered in dark goo -- curiously managing to miss the center of their faces (guess they didn't want to mess up their close up). Periodic screaming and flailing ensue when another snakelike tentacle descends from the ceiling and covers the head of one of the people with a translucent covering that has flashing pulsing lights. This turns into a sort of flashback / illusion with some narrative dialog regarding the person. And one by one we get pieces of the puzzle.

Honestly, this dragged on for entirely too long! Some skillful editing and this could have been a pretty good 30 minute story for some anthology series. The reviewer that claimed he was glued to his seat must have ACTUALLY been glued to keep him restrained. There are entirely too many other movies out there to waste one minute of your time on this turkey!

The very moment I saw the general in his uniform with three stars on the shoulders and sergeant stripes on the arm, I knew this movie was trouble. Maybe the plot came from a cheap comic or paperback. The action was so slow, if you can imagine the actors strapped into chairs, sitting in a circle for 3\4 the movie. And the dialogue seems it was hammered from technical jargon and contorted tech gibberish from every bad sf movie you've ever seen. Total waste of time and money.

Rarely it is that i review movies and it is only if they are either really good or really really bad. I feel don't have to say much about which is the case for this one.

You cant just rip proper older movies like Matrix and Alien or even Oblivion, mix them in a utterly preposterous way and expecting it to work. That's why we don't do that because it doesn't! The characters are swallow and uninteresting. The plot is somewhat the same toped with long monologues of boring "scientific" nonsense. The visual effects are cheap and childish and the atmosphere created by all these elements is absurd to say the least.

All and all, you cant just make good old mama's Sunday stew just because you've had it so many times cooked by someone else. It doesn't work this way and Project Ithaca is a fine example of that.

2/10 and not 1/10 because at least they had the courtesy to keep it under 90'.

Within 5 minutes I knew the movie wasn't good...I lost interest at 10 minutes and fell asleep at 15.

What can be done about the fake reviews that proliferate , universally intended to prop up terrible movies? In this case, no sentient being, human or otherwise, could possibly see any merit in this movie. There is no acting, no story, no direction, no dialogue, no sets and no plausibility to this dreck. You're better off watching Police Academy 17.

I almost never write reviews here, but as I fell asleep after viewing this monstrosity I swore that when I woke up I'd save at least one person from having to view this. Watch the first 5 minutes and the last 5 minutes and you will not have missed a thing except for the self-loathing you will have avoided for wasted time.

....are the people who made this movie so stupid they can't do basic research or so egotistical that they think they already know everything? Dressing up a character in a uniform with staff sergeant stripes and calling him a general? I turned it off in disgust at that point. No one that stupid or egotistical could possibly write decent scifi.

Produced in Canada on a budget of $5,000,000 CAD, I thought this movie was quite good, a little slow perhaps with a story that seemed to meander along. It involves a handful of people trapped on an alien spacecraft, they have to work together in order to get home. The story actually revolves around one character though, to be honest... There's some horror, trauma and plenty of mind games perpetrated by the aliens, that feed off the emotions of the trapped humans. The acting was ok, not brilliant, not bad, I've seen worse. The plot was different, not the usual Hollywood seen it before type thing.

If you want to watch something different, give this a go, it is not a dead loss...

Dunno why some of the other reviewers gave this movie a hard time. I guess they were expecting a mega-blockbuster action sci-fi thing from Hollywood...

Just finished watching and had no expectations going in. While i agree it could be hard to follow, that is one of the things i liked. It made you focus and pay attention instead of watering it down to make it simple to understand. I like movies that arent so easily guessed and it satisfied and made sense in the end. I truly enjoyed this movie and definitely hope for a sequel. I think those that didn't like it are the types who like the plot spoon fed to them on a silver platter so they don't have to think. Well acted with a lot of suspense.

Most of the negative reviews, 5 and under, are not from those of us who understand for what it is. Not the best Sci/Fi movie but worthy of watching. People waiting for a movie with comic book heroes , space explosions, alien walking human like torsos, special effects etc. will dis this movie. This is a thinkers movie , the 'what if' plot , being the gist of the of this Sci/Fi drama.

Absolutely trash.... in my opinion it was horrible wish i can get my time back

Don't waste your time. If u have time beter drink some wine en dreams dan watch this movie.