Kyle MacKay

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This is an amazing movie. You really have to be interested in history and naval warfare with a little bit of Cold War espionage, as the movie is mostly complicated dialogue, much of which your average viewer won’t fully understand and will likely find it boring as I did as a teenager. The premise is basically Russia has a new “stealth” submarine that won’t show up on sonar and it’s purpose is to sneak up to the us coast and launch its missiles with no warning or time to react. However on its way, it’s revealed that the captain may be trying to defect to the US and give them the sub. However, doing this with a crew of Russian nationalists is not an easy task, and for the few that suspect something is awry the captain confesses his intentions and follows up saying he sent his superiors a letter of his intent meaning that they now have to side with him to keep the sub moving so the rest of the Russians don’t find them and kill them which they are actively attempting. Meanwhile a CIA analyst figures out his intentions and tries to successfully rescue him while trying to prevent other US ships and Russia's submarine fleet from blowing it up while avoiding war with Russia. I tried to keep this as spoiler free as I could but you will still be surprised with the intelligence and suspense and tension of each decision.

I feel like it was trying to be interesting but ultimately ended up not making much sense. The comet at the dinner party makes a dark zone outside that makes an unlimited number of realities collide so if anyone leaves another version comes back without anyone knowing. Say this is true, no actions would be any different anyways because they are the exact same person with the exact same thoughts, so all of this with different items in the box or behavioral differences or even different numbered dice would all still be exactly the same, and don't even get me started on duplicates overlapping and being additional of the same people in the same house which they did at the end but not throughout the movie. It tries to apply Schrödinger's Cat to this dinner party but at least in my opinion the outcome has always been decided and not knowing the outcome doesn't change anything as if human perception could change reality, if a tree falls but nobody can hear it does it make noise... yes even though nobody heard it. There can be possible outcomes in the future but never in the present or past, sure before I open this box I won't know the cat is dead or alive but it already is one of the two before I open it, nothing changes, not knowing which outcome will happen doesn't mean both could, that cat was always going to die or if it lived it was always going to live. I don't understand how possible different outcomes can occur if other versions of their exact same duplicates never made those decisions, its just a discontinuity paradox. But if you accept that for no reason they are making different decisions in different "identical" realities then you'll probably enjoy it, it just doesn't make any sense to me.

Spoilers! Was not much of a fan of the first one primarily because the plot was just random people trying to survive and they just made up random monsters with no explanation of how they got there or what their purpose is or what they even are since we never actually see them and if you were hoping to find out any of that you will be disappointed again. I think they only people that like this are people who just enjoy watching tense scenes with no logic involved with what is happening and why. It is the same thing but with worse plot, they do try to give you some perspective to the seers but it ultimately ends up not making any sense. The main character is a seer, who at the start of the movie, murders a group of survivors by making them see the monsters as he has probably done several times already and thinks he is somehow doing gods work seeing their souls ascend when they kill themselves. As the “story” progresses he finds another group of survivors and because they have a kid with them all of a sudden he starts caring about people after killing who knows how many when is “faith” was so strong that he killed many people prior. If anything if he cared about them he’d REALLY want them to see the monsters since he believes he is saving their souls but nope he just abandons his beliefs and doesn’t care about all the previous people he killed because of this random kid and woman in this new group. It gets revealed that the seers don’t kill themselves because they are broken people with traumatic pasts that supposedly altered their dna so instead they are mentally enslaved and manipulated into hunting down survivors as the main character sees his daughter and believes he is getting closer to her with everyone he “(saves)” kills. He and his daughter get captured by seers in a flashback because despite the world going to hell he pretended like everything was fine and got a birthday cake somehow for his daughters party which lured the seers to them and after they killed his daughter by opening her eyes he opened his too and the trauma of her death must have instantly changed his dna to be a seer. This must have happened to countless other people even without the seers being present but nope he is just special I guess, also when he tries to defend the woman and kid and got his head on straight again he is still able to see the monsters just fine despite being a normal person now, and if a brief random encounter with strangers was enough to break their grip on him why haven’t we seen this before with others that can essentially be immune let alone with freakin family members who actually love each other. Nothing in this movie is explained and what is does not make sense. If you have any respect for your time which I did not you will stay away from this mess.

SPOILERS It’s an interesting movie and tries to be intelligent but it just ends up not making any sense or explaining the rules they laid out. Basically this is a time travel movie, by learning the alien language you are able to live life in a non linear timeline so you can essentially see the future. We see Louise’s daughter dying throughout the movie which we assume is the past but actually the future and she ultimately chooses to pursue that path despite knowing the outcome making the plot and insight redundant. Some problems I have with the movie is it is not explained if you can change the future you see, the aliens unite the human race so that they can help them in 3000 years so it’s safe to assume they think you can’t change the future or they’d have plenty of time to solve their problem during that long period of time besides I don’t even know how the heck the humans are supposed help them with something serious that they would need us. And Louise seems to think you can choose which is why at the end she seems cautious about Ian before committing to the outcome of her visions. If you can change the future obviously the aliens would prevent their problem from happening and Louise would’ve just gotten laid a day later with a different healthy child and now that the rest of the world knows the language and can see the future too everyone will remain United and good right?… no people would be worse and would absolutely take advantage of each other with the future knowledge and there would be infinite time paradoxes, which leads me to problem 2. If it’s plainly stated that knowing the language expands your mind so you perceive time non linearly then why couldn’t Ian see the same future he shared with Louise if they learned the language together at the same time, not to mention Louise was having those future memory flashbacks before she even started learning the language and don’t even tell me it was the sounds and few symbols she saw at the beginning because everyone in the camp was staring at them all day too with nothing happening so why just Louise and way before she should??? It doesn’t clarify if the future is set or why some people can’t see the future despite knowing the language which is what the entire plot revolves around and how people are somehow supposed to be good with this power or what trouble the aliens could possibly be in or how we’re supposed to help. Also it drove me crazy how the militaries kept wanting to attack the space pods that landed when they landed on each separate superpower nations to keep them from invading each other and to promote cooperation and how they also let them on board, if an alien species capable of extreme space travel lands like this they are obviously friendly because it would be so easy for them to just kill us all with the technology they would inevitably have and the barrier precautions for their safety were extremely reasonable in fact too loose even. I think the message is supposed to mean keep moving forward enjoying life even though it’s limited I think… that’s the only thing in this movie that makes sense, and they just added aliens and time travel mumbo jumbo on top of that, Louise knows the future and might be able to change it but lets it happen anyways making the whole movie pointless. I’m not against sci fi movies but they have to make rules and stick with them, this unfortunately does not. You think you’re being led down an interesting path and then boom you’re right back where you started.