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This review is full of spoilers, as I need to include them to describe just how poor this film is to warn others about it to save their money.

Shame on me, because I knew going into this that low budget+direct to video+lack of reviews or information usually screams "bad movie!", but I rented it nonetheless, I'm a sucker for dystopian films, even kind of bad ones. This film isn't kind of bad. It's really bad.

I'll say that I can love low budget movies, I can love ones with no name actors. But poorly written, with changing character motivations at random, and plot holes galore? That I don't love.

The film opens in an obviously dystopian future where people are basically waiting around to escape a dying Earth to off-planet colonies. There's no tv, no internet anymore for some reason not explained, and a whole lot of doing nothing by basically everyone.

As in most dystopian future films, the reasons for the sad state of the world aren't clearly explained, nor why many things are the way they are, so I don't fault the film for that per se. Usually in such films, the lack of world building is due to lack of time to explain the backstory, but this film had plenty of time to do that, which brings me to my biggest gripe with this movie: Nothing much happens, at all, ever.

People sit around and talk a lot, people walk outside in straight lines, people sit and stare at each other. I'm guessing the screenplay was about 3 pages long, and the actors had to fill in the lack of dialogue with many awkward stares (with this film having plenty of those!), and silent walking. Honestly, in the time spent with nothing happening in this film they could have easily filled in the entire history of the future.

I'm guessing the lack of activity was due to a lack of budget. Serious corners were cut in the production, some done ingeniously such as an entirely off-screen dialogue between the lead character and a hotel employee where you never see the employee (so they didn't have to create a set for it), and some that definitely impacted the story line.

I don't mind low budget if a story can still be told, but things were done in this film that makes me wonder if it wasn't originally supposed to have a much higher budget that was cut early in production.

For example, the protagonist gets hired "for a job" that people say "is dangerous", but after the job starts, cut to the end, the lead and another dude are dragging a heavy bag with something (?) in it, that is never explained. The job isn't explained, what they did isn't explained, how they get out isn't explained, something just happened. "Deal with it, we don't have the cash to show you what that was", the producer yells at the audience (all 10 of us who rented this).

Another issue with the film is that the protagonist and basically everyone in it are pretty lousy people, there's really no one to root for. You root for the lead because you've seen him the most, I guess? But the way people treat him you can assume he's an awful person too. Without any emotional attachment to anyone or anyone to root for the driving motivation for the film, the lead finding his estranged wife, becomes meaningless.

The film also contains glaring plot holes, as mentioned, including the lead miraculously escaping certain death multiple times, because these people who all seem to want him so dead never bother to actually getting around to killing him, and after 2 of his captors die in an amazing escape...rather than take any of their weapons or their vehicles or anything, the lead runs to fight his main enemy with his bare hands, minus his friend who came to rescue him in the first place. Okay?

If all this wasn't bad enough, the film ends with the lead completely betraying the entire reason for the entire film's purpose. "You can't go back again, was the message!" The director yells from his director chair, which must be in hell somewhere. Yeah, I get it.

Too bad the film's "message" is lost in a film that ends up being completely pointless by the end of it.

Skip this until you can see it for free, you've been warned.

Or when they finally get what they thought they wanted, they don't want it anymore. I can tell why everyone hates Jack. He only shows up and messes up everything, and everyone; even himself. Averagely entertaining flick. Lots of implied backstory which you, as the viewer, must fill in. A good deal of messaging about climate change and the overpopulation and stuff. Otherwise, it's a gritty believable dystopian, about a dude who truly is as worthless as everyone thinks he is.

This movie starts OK, the whole not so far into the future idea and setting is overused in many cases anyway. This film aspires to be sentimental and melodramatic however the writers left many plot holes, inconsistencies and the acting of minor characters is beyond poor.

What surprised me the most is the inclusion of the unnecessary flashbacks and slow scenes during the dialogues which were inconsistent.

The whole movie feels like a a sentimental melodic dream about a guy who lost his wife and eventually failed to get her back in hopes of a better tommorow.

The only good things about the movie are the beginning and the very end. It is beyond my comprehension why they made it into a full feature film because it feels like an overstretched short movie. Delete 90% percent which is the core and you might get a decent indie short Sci fi.

You cannot just put and ok premise and ending, add some filler scenes and bake a movie. I would like to complement the acting of a main character in some cases however even these few realistic moments cannot save the movie.

It's another movie that was supposed to be a short film in the first place. I am happy that I had an opportunity to fast forward some of these extremely boring and unnecessary parts of the movie.