brandon valadez

This is a wonderful film about a group of outcasts and the bonds they form living together as a family. It is both heartwarming and tragic. Lots of emotions here. Great acting, great characters.

its not entirely unpleasant to watch, outside of the gore parts... but really it all felt very pointless and redundant at the end. a lot of ways they could have gone with it after the big 'oh snap' moment but it ended up being kinda lame and useless. the based on a true story aspect for me personally was just a gimmick to hype up a film that in the long run really had nothing to do with the real life murders. *spoilers* psycho fish shop owner cons people out of money then he and his psycho girlfriend dismember them, burn the bones, and dump the meat in a river. the whole time blackmailing a lesser shop owner into being an accomplice by threatening to kill him, his wife, and his daughter. it drives the main character crazy and he ends up killing them. then himself, in front of his daughter, to teach her a lesson. big facepalm moment at the end. dont waste your time unless youre just really into bizarre films, gore films, or the director.

This film is actually pretty good. Starts out with a theme painted as a possible religious-horror film, but quickly switches over to scifi-thriller. It's intended and done well. The special effects arent 'the best' but theyre decent enough for this movie. By the end of it, the story isnt something entirely new but this film is a decent enough version of it that it doesnt feel over used. Throws a little bit of a twist in toward the end regarding a few of the characters and then again at the end. Definitely worth a watch. 4/5 stars, 6.5/10 rating from me based on entertainment value. The acting isnt the best but its decent enough that youre not distracted by it long enough to matter. A little bit better acting and special effects could have made this film an easy 8/10.

the link to the film on TUBI that google presents to you is NOT, i repeat NOT the actual film. It is not the correct movie.

**spoiler alert** this is a film about a quantum computer that can read peoples minds. it lives in a series of prisons that utilize the technology to extract information from its prisoners, all of which are high profile targets. the film is all over the place. it cannot decide if it wants to be scifi thriller or supernatural horror. the film proposes the idea that the ai has gone rogue and is attempting to enact justice, while at the same time it implies that it is actually a supernatural or extra terrestrial enemy on a killing spree. as it turns out, its a little bit of both. the movie is basically this: an 'interrogation gone wrong' that happened somewhere in the middle east left a small village massacred at the hands of american soldiers. the ghosts from the slain villagers somehow (not explained in the film) either used the quantum technology as a doorway, or the quantum a.i. transcends dimensions and copies/merges with the ghosts and then enacts a plot to destroy those responsible for the deaths of the innocents. however, there is a lot that isnt explained, such as: why was everyone involved in the massacre somehow still stationed together (save one character who is reuinted with them for this job since he built the thing). both the main squad of characters, and the first group of tech-haunt victims were all present at the massacre. why were 'they' the ones who were assigned to this job when their old squadmates went radio-silent? i guess you could surmise that the tech-ghosts arranged that... after all, in the film it did get the one general from the middle east who was involved to fly through 3 transfers in perfect timing with facial recognition systems being down (it actually says that in the film). coincidences, and convenient plot armor aside... the soldiers in the film make some pretty bad decisions. the one character with the most 'character' only really gets a brief glimpse of who he is in the very beginning and it has NOTHING to do with him being a genius or soldier or creating the quantum ai... the film feels very much like someone made a film out of a plot outline that was never thoroughly worked out. when they ran into questions they just threw out an answer and quickly wrote it in to whatever scene was being filmed at the moment. the acting wasnt terrible. it was pretty decent actually. camera work was passable. and the special effects were actually alright for the caliber of film. this film is a mayonaise sandwhich.

Im just over halfway through the film; I like it quite a bit so far with the exclusion of one part: the stupidity and lack of realism with the criminal profiler's character. Thankfully its not a 'main' character's role. Everything else is good so far, as long as im not nitpicking.

Well, I skipped through the movie after the first scene in the car.. which I also ended up skipping through because it didnt feel genuine and seemed never ending. Im glad I did. You dont see much throughout the film to support the ending but nonetheless its rather predictable and cliche. Mixing ideas doesnt make them better or any less unoriginal. If youre just super bored then it isnt too bad I guess but again I'm glad I jumped through. Thats how flat the ending is, that I didnt really lose anything by not watching the various acts in their entirety. The ending wasnt any less understandable.

I feel like Netflix is slowly becoming the new SyFy channel as B or C level productions branded with Netflix Original are becoming more prevalent. Perhaps theyre lowering their standards due whatever competition theyre getting from Hulu Vudu and Amazon Prime. Another Life is a poorly written and even more poorly thought out trip through space with plot and mission detours that are almost as frequent as the actors failed attempts at believable emotions. A ship full of adults who act like 9th graders are somehow placed on the ONE ship that can make the lengthy journey through space and tasked with saving the future of humanity from a potentially dangerous alien artifact/race. And, to complicate things, theyre accompanied by an AI Personality with little to no control over what happens on the ship (unless its specifically told what to do)... and most of what I would assume, at this point in our future, would be basic automatic tasks and responses programmed into such an AI are actually the Roles attributed to the otherwise entirely useless crewmen. Poor decisions, seemingly random deaths, cliche risks and consequences, sub-par acting with outdated emotional motivation portrayed in a way that doesnt feel genuine... There wasnt much going for this show outside of a girls spine and nervous system prying itself from her convulsing body and then crawling a few meters on its own before dying. after five episodes i began skimming through them, to skip the 'family' moments and 'guy who hates the reporter who seems to be everywhere' bits. and even then I didnt make it through to see the end of S1,