Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

cyberlunacy This is a very hard review because i loved the movie, its an 6 to me but they ripped everything out of other movies. i give it a 7 overall but a 1 for originality The layout of the scenes the cinematography everything made me feel like the only thing that would have made it more real would have been neil degrasse tyson and knowing it came right out of an episode of Nova. except the CGI; that wasnt blended with the film very well, but it was a lot better than any SyFy channel movie. acting made me feel like they were actually interviewing real people for most of the movie, there were scenes that brought back the cheap movie feel but the actors did an A+ job on making the viewer feel like it was all real interviews. the wife even asked what i was watching and if the interviews were real.so i will get right down to it..... i am shocked and appauled that the film makers have not been sued and forced to remove the movie. why you ask it only mimics other movies... no it downright completely rips them off. here are at least 5 films i can see it directly steals plot, audio, scenes and so much more contact from. 1) Contact 1997 - fantastic film with jodi foster. Beyond stole, the frequency waves that were being transmitted by the aliens, all the way down to almost being the same audio used in the movie (it is different though). and they dont even hide it. Blacking out and waking up after going through the worm hole on another planet. Contact used a sunny beach, beyond used what looks like the cliffs in Scotland. Contact had jodi foster meeting her father on said planet, a pleasing way for the alien race to meet earthlings. Beyond used another astronaut that was thought to be dead. The alien in Beyond said it was there time, as did Contact, but also said they werent ready for everything. they were only letting earth know someone was out there. they even had them leave the scene in the exact same way!! The Alien left in a blurry scenematic 2) Interstellar 2014 - another fantastic film with Matthew McConaughey. The landing ship clip when they sent people to Earth 2 looks exactly like the ones when landing on Interstellar. the ships rocks twist into landing "legs" The wormhole scenes about light and particles coming into the ship, straight out of Interstellar. The planet the synth landed on could easily be seen as a total rip off of the planets that Matthew McConaughey and crew landed on. 3 & 4)Arrival 2016 and possibly The Day The Earth Stood Still 2008 the balls of alien material how they appeared all over the earth and the way they moved and flowed and appeared liquefied is right out of The Day The Earth Stood. the way the military gathered around the spheres and fired on them can be seen in many movies but made me immediately feel like they stole it from The Day The Earth Stood and Arrival. 5) Another Earth 2011 w/ Brit Marling - in Beyond other planets formed out of no where, well, they claimed the debris left over after the alien material left formed the planets, but the key rip off here is another earth appeared right beside our earth, this time though it was empty.That and the blatant rip offs from Contact where the two biggest most frustrating and cheap shots within the movie, anyone involved in this movie and anyone who has seen it should have immediately spotted this and the makers and actors should have been ashamed they made such a rip off movie. yes we can say well the Scary Movie series did the same thing, but it was done willfully and they didnt hide it. The film doesnt admit it, tries hiding it by changing certain things, and any scifi lover should be calling this filmaker out as a complete and total fraud with absolutely no vision.over all i kept my eyes on the tv, it was a great movie, worth watching, not becuase it in and of itself was good, it wasnt but because they blended so many scenes from other scifi movies in to make this one. But it is really, really hard not to sit there and say its not a complete rip off of multiple movies.

prepaidtelevision If you're a legit fan / follower of science and a sci fi fan THEN you will like this movie bc it's very good considering the blumhouse style production budget which means squeezed out as much quality as possible...on the cheap.

beanofdoom I actually quite liked the film. I think it's for a specific audience though. I think it's supposed to be science fiction for people who like documentaries. As a person who could spend the whole day watching BBC Horizon and PBS Nova documentaries on science and space, this movie come off just like one of those. The acting is pretty solid if you consider that these are supposed to be normal people; the dialogue is stellar to the degree that it was scripted to come off unscripted. Like many documentaries I watched it in a couple of chunks. The science was a little off sometimes, but not badly enough to be too annoying. If you're a fan of nature and science documentaries, definitely give it a shot. If you're looking for super accessible, hollywood sci-fi on the other hand, I'd say you're ascending the wrong carbon nanotube space-tether

guyrayment-67765 I read the reviews and half the reviews thought the film was excellent, the other half thought it was terrible, which prompted me to watch it luckily.The plot is very good, the visual effects are also and now to the biggest complaint of the negative reviews, the acting. If you view this as a documentary movie which I am sure was the directors intention, then the style of acting is very much in keeping with what you would expect i.e. factual, real life reporting without the Hollywood glitz. Perhaps too mundane for some but for me, it kept me enthralled.The story and especially the closing sequences really do pack some power, show the frailty of mankind along with our paranoia as a race and that not everything we perceive is as we imagine.In summary if you want laser blasters, aliens and Hollywood glitz this film will not appeal, if you an enjoyable and though provoking experience then watch this. I really enjoyed it.