The first 15 minutes are wonderful. Clever, attention-grabbing, puzzling, empathetic, not only hooks you but promises you so much more to come. The next 40 minutes are disappointing. A lot of the bits and pieces you liked off the top are mysteriously absent and the plot seems to narrow, rather than widen. The rest of the movie is terrible, as if someone had pressed a magic button and stuck you in an Afterschool Special. Textbook example of a film where the creators literally have no idea what they are doing because the one thing you are never supposed to do is raise viewer expectations and then NOT deliver.((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))
Review of The Portable Door
