Beyond (2014)

Sick Product of a Sick System

It is a performances centric movie

Expected more

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Transcendence, Ghost in the Shell, and Lucy, these titles all revolve around the transhumainsm modern gravy train...This plays like a low budget B-movie version of the others. Poor CGI (though the human 2.0 was decently well done), the plot takes forever, some of the jumps seem related to budget cuts...or laziness. It skips in all the wrong places, and is one the first movies to actually put me sleep sitting up....I would not recomend this movie, and am disappointed, as I was looking forward to watching it...

This movie tries to bill itself as a sci-fi survivor story, but just can't quite keep the charade going. First and foremost this film is a ponderous relationship drama. In fact, I'd argue it's a melodrama. The main character is an aloof, disconnected slacker with no more attractive qualities than his swarthy, ill shaven, casually dressed actor can bring by default. His girlfriend Maya is a needling, immature, inconsistent, over-emotional fountain of simultaneous boredom and annoyance.There is nothing to like here. The progression is simultaneously flat and instantaneous, with no actual payoff. The entire premise of the movie is thrown out in its last seconds as an elaborate symbolic representation of the characters' relationship struggle.If you enjoy sniffing your own farts and think that it's particularly engaging to point out the symbolic nature of the static on the television screen over the character's left shoulder while they try to eat pasta from an upside-down fork, this is the film for you.If you want something that isn't trying to be an over-pretentious melodrama, look elsewhere.

*********************SPOILER ALERT!*********************He's like on the floor and bleeding. She calls and says the ship is breaking apart, and she's just had the baby girl. But also, he's looking at the ship from the hillside at shore, holding a picture of the baby and she's missing.The store cashier who got shot and later shoots the lead character has a shirt with silhouettes of the spaceship on it and he recites everything that the lead remembers anyone saying for the past two years. Even the stain on the lead's shirt is a bloody image of the space ship. Two alternate realities offered for his choosing?Thank goodness it is streaming! I need to watch it again to make sure I understand it. That is not a good thing to have to do.It's like EVERY human being had a chance to choose their reality. Apparently, most chose Norway?

If i could sum it up in a sentence, this movie has a terrible plot line and a misleading title but has good acting. I was expecting a movie to be about alien invasion, but the entire movie was about the personal life of a couple with issues. The only references to the extraterrestrial beings were essentially their floating ships. Their floating ships would just hover around doing essentially nothing. There were random dead people everywhere... The movie went back into time, went into the present, into the future, back and forth every 7-10 minutes.Not worth my Friday night, i kept expecting something to get better, but half way through the movie i started skipping forward and found that literally nothing significant happens in this movie.