Doors

White created a movie called Portals, released in 2019, and Doors follows the same formula. I liked Doors more than Portals. However, that isn't saying much. Neither film is very good. Both movies are a series of individual short stories. Each short story is written and directed by different people, using different actors in different situations involving the primary plot device. You guessed it, enigmatic doors and portals. I like this movie concept, but the finished product feels more like a film student's project. The script, acting, and production value just isn't there. Some of the acting and dialogue were almost painful to watch. By the time the credits rolled, I was disappointed. If you really want to see Doors, I certainly wouldn't pay extra to watch this movie.

The movie starts off well in a school classroom but sinks deep into a mess never to see any of the actors in a number of segments again. What keeps the segments together is a radio voice over a time period, then refreshes and the film concludes.

The film achieves nothing. It tends to emulate Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, but fails completely, leaving nothing but imaginary baloney.

The only good look of the movie is its deceptive poster.

I wish movies now a days would get a good story and actually stick with it. This movie was all over the board and started off strong, then got strange and then I got completely lost. I would not recommend this movie unless you just had nothing better to do and are already bored out of your mind.

Four high school students are stuck in detention when something starts happening in the world. That is the first section in this movie which is split into different parts. The first section is a fascinating Twilight Zone story with four unknown young actors. It's twenty minutes. It could have been a fine full length sci-fi horror but it skips to the next section. The second section has Josh Peck, Lina Esco, and Dugan O'Neal in a group. Dugan is a co-writer and co-director of the movie. What I like least about this section is the attempt at light-heart pranking. The world is newly apocalyptic and Josh Peck keeps joking around. It's annoying. The movie disintegrates over time as each section has its own disjointed tone within this world. I'd rather they stuck with the four kids and keep going with their story. It wouldn't be great but at least, it would have a chance at being functional.

Yeah, the classroom bit was about it for anything intriguing. Then the whole Josh Peck as a "leading man" thing tanks it. The part at the cabin was high school drama club stuff. And the tacked-on work-at-home ending perhaps because of pandemic but also definitely because they ran out of money....unbelievably awful.

Save your brain. Literally do anything else with 90 minutes of your life.