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Full Cast and Crew. What is Emily Mortimer Watching? Must see - movies. Share this Rating Title: The Beyond 4. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Credited cast: David Johnson Kosha Engler Jessica Johnson Nigel Barber Alex Grant Courtney Barber Youtube Star Nick Kokotakis Lee Cooksley Melissa Graham A couple of the interviewees partway through the film, and a couple of other characters, clearly read their lines like actors, not actual people, and it sticks out.

The main problem with ALL the characters, however, is that none of these people in and of themselves are really relevant to the plot. You have no particular sense of what x character or y character uniquely brings to the movie, largely because things tend to happen to these people rather than our characters going and getting stuff done LITERALLY Jim Marcell's role in the film is to have the whole film done TO him , and most of those things are so high concept that any individual humanity or personality is largely irrelevant. Strangely enough, the most common shots we get of Humans 2. Show us, don't tell us.

You get most of the character development in the first 10 mins of the film and in the above mentioned wheelchair scene, some scatterings elsewhere, and none of it serves the concept of the film, merely serving to somewhat centre and humanise the sci-fi kookiness in arbitrary human interest subplots.

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In contrast, Arrival which this will inevitably and unfavorably be compared to makes the human stories integral to the high concept plot in a unique way. However, my main real complaint is probably the pacing. For an hour and a half film, not much happens for a long time apart from a couple of nice human scenes like mentioned above, and all the business happens at the end in a mountain of exposition, memory transcoding and things happening in space. Films like Arrival again!

The pivotal scene of the solar system getting blown up and then then bits falling to fuck up earth and the ISS and then the aliens morph into a black shield wall of tendrils to save us and then they build another Earth out of the leftovers is basically grainy space camera footage with minimal sound, before seguing back into doco VO with a little bit too much philosophical wanky preaching from Canadian mum, which appears to me most of her script towards the end.

In its own way that makes the visual and the moment more striking if you focus in, but it also means runs the risk of melting back into the background of the whole tone of the film if you're not very actively trying to follow. Like, guys, the concept is huge, but apart from a couple of brief scenes it is made to feel like business as usual. That's a bit weird for the kind of concept this is shooting for.

I know I sound like I'm criticising a lot, and there is a bit to criticise, but criticism is easy. This is a pretty watchable sci fi film with a good thoughful concept that does try hard to do something fairly unique and high concept without breaking the bank. Just don't go in expecting to be stimulated for the entire 1: I finished this and my first thought after was "You know, the film I actually want to see is the one where these aliens have already randomly built another Earth next door for us to solve our population problems, and I want to see what would happen to our society, our governments, our security, our relative levels of conflict and peace, does our society stratify or unite, etc.

I want that concept. I feel like so much of what we saw here what a lot of films shove in their opening crawl Not saying that this film isn't fine, but I almost think the latter part of the concept is what should have been zero'd in on.

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Maybe there'll be a sequel. Also, that newsreader chick.

There's something a little too uncanny and creepy. She'd never get a RL newsreading job like that, too unsettling to watch. I feel like she's the main one when you say some felt like they were reading lines. Great review and overall I agree with you. I think of you view it in those terms the issue of pacing, as was previously brought up, becomes less so of a problem. There were parts of this movie that made me think of Arrival the spheres arriving randomly , but the execution of this film was pretty scientific in my opinion.

The human aspect of it kind of felt like fluff.

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Especially since the two people we became most attached to ended up dying one more so than the other. I actually felt a lot of revulsion towards what felt to me like body horror. What I did enjoy, funnily enough, was the human 2. The end game, with the space agency at least, seemed to make this 2. Because the explosion that hit Earth was caused by the aliens in the first place right, in what eventually came to create Earth 2.

It all felt too Not so much cinematically, but for an outside force lining up events to have the desired outcome best suited for their own individual needs and wants. You destroy your planet, you engage in war amongst yourselves, your population is greatly exploiting steadily declining resources—and so, we give you a new planet to start over with? It premiered at the Sci-Fi-London film festival on 24 April As Cole shops, an armed robber demands that the cashier, Michael, hand over all the money in the safe. Michael empties the cash register and says that there is no safe in the shop.

As the robber becomes increasingly agitated, Cole approaches him, calls him a coward, and dares the robber to shoot him. Michael intercedes and attempts to wrestle the gun away from the robber, only to be shot in the gut. After Cole calls an ambulance, he receives a phone call from a friend who invites him out to drinks. Cole accepts on the condition that it is not a house party.

Cole is frustrated to learn that it is a house party, and he goes downstairs to drink alone, where he meets Maya, the host. The two discuss an approaching asteroid. Maya says that modern stress would evaporate in the face of the meaninglessness of certain doom, and Cole says that everything would matter in that circumstance.

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The two dance to Maya's favorite song and soon begin dating. A series of flashforwards depict life in post-apocalyptic Scotland after the asteroid has arrived as Cole and Maya hide from alien spaceships, mixed with scenes in the present of their relationship leading up to those events. When they discuss children, Cole says he does not want any, and Maya reveals she is incapable. As the asteroid grows closer, Cole asks Maya to marry him.

Maya jokingly accepts, and Cole insists that he is serious; now serious, Maya again agrees.