A detached orphan teen escapes to the future, but when he arrives at a natural utopia, he must evade a lynch mob convinced that he's the prophesied Devil's Child.A detached orphan teen escapes to the future, but when he arrives at a natural utopia, he must evade a lynch mob convinced that he's the prophesied Devil's Child.A detached orphan teen escapes to the future, but when he arrives at a natural utopia, he must evade a lynch mob convinced that he's the prophesied Devil's Child.
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Roe Pacheco
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Mark Anthony Ferguson
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- (as Mark Ferguson)
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Apparently this was based on a book that was probably a pretty decent story but unfortunately it was not transferred to the screen. The acting is horrendous. It is so bad at points it completely takes one out of the story. Given the gaping plot holes and things that are simply never explained I can only assume entire chapters must have been skipped. As it is, it makes no sense at all. Sad to see someone else's creative vision reduced to a bad high school play.
Like the rest of 2020, this has become a mess of gigantic proportions
it had potential, but lost track of where it was going - and with a cast that has little to no spark on screen, lousy effects, poor development, lost story, boring props and no sountrack to blend in to make this any more interesting...this just drags on far too long
if the timing was cut and it even had remotely interesting dialog and some thought given about advancements in the future, this could have been interesting - instead it was a bore which dragged on longer than it needed to be - and with the lack of budget to sustain anything that was needed, the basic design of the story made it a total drag to sit through
I wasn't looking for the next Star Trek or Star Wars, but when the poster is more impressive than the film, then there's a serious problem
hopefully your next effort is more entertaining, more thought put into it - and a bigger budget with stuff that makes it interesting
for a future world, this is less interesting than the stone age - and for all the advacements of travel, they have next to nothing for living - less than a jail cell
and that is where it all falls apart...more than the tiring story
it had potential, but lost track of where it was going - and with a cast that has little to no spark on screen, lousy effects, poor development, lost story, boring props and no sountrack to blend in to make this any more interesting...this just drags on far too long
if the timing was cut and it even had remotely interesting dialog and some thought given about advancements in the future, this could have been interesting - instead it was a bore which dragged on longer than it needed to be - and with the lack of budget to sustain anything that was needed, the basic design of the story made it a total drag to sit through
I wasn't looking for the next Star Trek or Star Wars, but when the poster is more impressive than the film, then there's a serious problem
hopefully your next effort is more entertaining, more thought put into it - and a bigger budget with stuff that makes it interesting
for a future world, this is less interesting than the stone age - and for all the advacements of travel, they have next to nothing for living - less than a jail cell
and that is where it all falls apart...more than the tiring story
There are big-budget sci-fi films, and there are low-budget sci-fi films, and then there are no-budget sci-fi films, like this one. A big budget won't make a sci-fi movie good (plenty of examples of that), and good writing, acting and imagination can make a low-budget sci-fi film good or even great, but with no budget at all, even great writing and acting won't get you very far past the starting line. Add time travel into that and things get worse. Young orphan Dave helps a genially crazy scientist and his wife travel 100 years into the future, but eventually becomes obsessed with the idea of time travel itself and uses their equipment to travel 100 years into the future; except he accidentally travels 700 years into the future. Nevertheless, the people he meets speak perfect 21st-century English. If someone traveled back from 2020 to 1320's England, the language would be all but incomprehensible. And if you learned one 14-century dialect and then traveled to another part of England 100 miles away, THEIR dialect would be incomprehensible all over again. Furthermore, the micro-organisms - bacteria, fungi and viruses - will have had 700 years to evolve, and most likely Dave would not have immunity to the future strains. He'd get deathly ill. Then there's the disappointing fact that all we see of the future is a small patch of woodland and a hill nearby with a system of caves, with people living in houses fitted with very 21st-century door and table hardware. There is very little action and the dialogue slows to a crawl in places. If you feel like your time on this Earth is limited, and you want to spend it enriching yourself, skip this flick.
How the actors who appear in this disaster don't cringe in embarrassment beggars belief. I want my 107 minutes back.
Did you know
- GoofsWhen Doc sets the timer for the trip, he enters 52,594,560 seconds. This is only 608 days, or about 1 year 8 months, not the 100 years he was planning to travel. It is very unlikely someone of his background would make such a mistake.
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- Marietta, Ohio, USA(Dave's home town)
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- $40,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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