Black Road

Other titles I've seen from Gravitas were just awful and with the 3.8 RT rating, I was expecting more blech. I was, instead, plesantly surprised.

It's not a super-budget blockbuster, by any means, but if you are capable of looking at things with an open mind and trying to see what the cast and crew were trying to make you just might enjoy this movie.

Beautiful scenery, ok soundtrack, ok plot, decent acting (not going to nab any awards, but not terrible), an interesting cyborg approach, and no supermen had me happy with this movie. Just dont go into it expecting an Iron Man or Black Panther level of movie and you may like it also.

The plot is interesting, and I found Black Road to be an enjoyable film. There are almost no Sci-Fi elements, so this is more of a detective film set in a near future, than a Sci-Fi film.

There are a few special effects, that aren't too impressive, and some hints of magic which don't have much context so you can only try to guess where they are coming from, but still there is a decent amount of suspense.

Black Road presents you with conflicting information from two different sources and the fun part is trying to put together the puzzle before the protagonist does, and the film ends.

I read all the reviews, and, sure, the acting is amateurish, but fine. The beautiful scenery could have been better exploited. And to take a theme like the breakdown of the US with potential to dig into the potential libertarian ideology of a future Jefferson state and exploit it so casually in an attempt at a noir thriller was a disappointment. And I did get the feeling like they were almost making up the story as they went along.

But there was some genuine creativity and originality poured into the film. It captured a mood. Left just enough to the imagination - not laying everything out for you. Nice self-deprecating digs at the rural Ecotopean counter-culture. Clever dialogue, particularly between the protagonist and his computer companion.

Credit for what it is - just a mellow piece of art with some nice ideas.

This should be a series not a movie. Too much to unpack and too little time. The concept is great just the movie is rushed and there's no real message or meaning. It needs 10 episodes to flesh it out. I see huge potential of Netflix or someone digs in.

The other reviewers with starry reviews probably got a dog in the fight, cause even a lobotomized zombie on crack will stay away from this stench of a movie. Acting is so bad that it made me cringe.

Wanna be director just need to go to film school - i don't even say "go back to film school" cause he obviously he never attended one or missed a lot of courses. I've seen wedding videos less cheesy than than.

I can't even say that CG are bad, they're just middle of the road, looking like some template from After Effects found on the net - it's just they're badly composited/integrated. I've seen amateurs on youTube doing way better than that with DV footage processed on a laptop.

But the worst, definitely is the acting part, or its lack of, once you passed the point where this "Sci-Fi" thing looks really that it got shot in rural Oregon last summer, missing all nice landscapes and scenery though. Adding a blue light to a barn doesn't make it look techy, film boys. You got a lot to learn in front of you. First and foremost would be how not to bore to death your unfortunate audience.