Reviews

Sometimes it's nice to watch a movie and see something, anything at all. This movie has nothing.

The loss of Hugo Weaving and Lawrence Fishburne is a hard pill to swallow to begin with, but to replace the characters the way they did with a typically lacking explanation? It's all too Matrixy in its lack of compelling explanation, but not Matrixy enough in its execution. Then - to placate the viewer with the worst kind of callbacks and tired plot devices already well used up from the first three movies...? Its just frankly insulting.

This movie cares way to much for itself, and forgets what made the concept and execution so compelling in the first place. Not unlike the situation neo and trinity find themselves in this movie.

A poor installment to say the least...

Man from earth seems, by description, to be a film with an interesting plot base to write from. You might think that it could be interesting to observe how the director/writer pull it off. You may think that maybe they would tailor the story to some interesting sort of unbiased theological/scientific limbo which leaves the viewer provoked but not completely driven to one conclusion.

You would be wrong. As I was.

The acting is mostly poor and the production completely uninspiring... not to mention the writing. They sit there and initially show suspicion at the 1 or two objects and indications of the truth, but when they confront the subject they are pacified with kindergarten answers.

One character has a complete breakdown about 2/3rd's in, which you might imagine to be a reasonable response for a less emotionally stable subject when confronted with the daunting truth behind the "man[...]". Wrong again. The writer manages, with the help of the actors, to make the whole scene completely un compelling and un believable.

You would expect a "man[...]" of his nature to be slightly more learned about how to leave town without arousing suspicion, or to be more careful about building apparently close relationships with the people in every time and place he's lived.

Don't waste your time. Instead: call up a friend or two or five, grab a beer/drink, and talk the subject over yourselves. You will come up with much more intriguing observations and possibilities than this movie offers.

Of all the movie reviews I've had the pleasure of reading to-date, i must say that the reviews for this one leave me confused...

As for the movie, i loved it. I was blown away. Saw it right at release and wasn't expecting much so maybe thats why i was so taken aback with the quality (in a good way).

I am a huge sci-fi fan. I've literally seen it all whether its movies or TV, right from the first star trek ever made to all good and bad spin-offs. Stargate, same thing. Battlestar galactica etc... All the classic movies and all the new gems (and steamy piles of crap sometimes)in this genre have been viewed by me. I literally made a point of this 5 years ago. Now that you know I'm not a sci-fi noob i must say that it doesn't make any sense to me that so many reviewers have said that "those who like this aren't sci-fi fans" or, "those who like this haven't seen a single episode of trek/stargate". This is original (despite its references to so many movies and shows), moving, exciting, and most of all believable! Ya i said it... believable! EVERY SCI-FI MOVIE/SHOW EVER MADE OR DREAMPT UP HAS "HOLES" Such is the genre of science fiction...FICTION Things like "How can Gerty communicate with earth if its the tower thats blocking the signal", if they had taken the time to explain this it would have been some easily creatable sci-fi typical explanation "uhhh... the tower has a .... Gerty detecting algorithm", its complicated and poorly explained in sci fi, always is, thats why its almost better that they leave it open, some dumb sci fi explanation for these "holes" would have taken away from the writing and point of the movie. Sure, you'd need some sort of a centrifuge to create gravity where there should be none (the moon-base interior), and we've no mention of this... would that have helped the people who didn't like the "holes"? Maybe they live in a future where technology exists that allows gravity to happen in the moon-base.... point is WHO CARES? thats for the writer to decide because (drum roll....) ITS A WORK OF FICTION! Watch this movie for what it is, a good, original, and sly flick with great acting, great premise and good set/effects.

Think for two seconds how hard it would be to make a sci-fi movie without giving any referable aspects of other sci fi in it.

The movie isn't perfect, i agree that more probably could have been done with the plot/excitement after starting with such a great premise, but i don't feel it takes much away from it.

Most of all, to all of you who consider yourself sci-fi fans: don't be deterred by bad reviews. This is a perfect example of the genre and delivers everything a true fan of sci-fi loves.

Im not certain how its possible that so many people can give glowing reviews to this. To me such a high score on such an overwhelmingly mediocre film is ludicrous. I like a good action film, i quite enjoy Neesons acting usually, but this is horrible. I guess it makes sense that people like Pierre Morel and Luc Besson will continue to make loads of money cranking out this predictable, formulaic, demeaning and regressing cinema so why stop? I guess i would do the same. I wont go into the plot because there are some really fantastic reviews already (apparently there ARE people who have sense out there) that sum it up perfectly. Essentially UTTER crap, tripe, funny and horrifying but only when its not trying to be. Actually maybe i will go on, bear with me... i promise this is an accurate description. Before i continue i have to say that if you happen to be a student of sociology, or if your interested in understanding modern or historical racism then this movie actually has merit; but only as a study or example of how racism still exists everywhere in our world. Especially in the US. Seriously, its terrible to see that people think this raises some sort of awareness about human trafficking, once again other reviews have tackled this already but i must throw my lot in with the rest. Its too bad that people around the world have to put up with these stereotyped "threats to America", the crooked police (with a friggen baguette under his arm!), the Muslim/Albanian/UNAMERICAN (thats the point) who wants to take your daughter, give her drugs, rape her and then sell her to Muslims.... It exists sure enough, and its terrible of course, but this is neither appropriate or needed in this medium. French are stereotyped as incapable and crooked, Albanians as fat greasy ugly rapists (don't forget the drugs) who are apparently also really bad at what they do. I was about to go on but to this point i'll just say that this film is ignorant, and RACIST. "Damn we should have listened to Liam!!"the daughter thinks it, the wife thinks it, the step husband thinks it, the crooked police think it.... did i miss anyone? oh yeah, the abductors think it of course "he said he was coming... i sure underestimated that American"

Fine, hes superman and captain America in one, happens enough in movies and frankly not a big deal... but the tracking of the mobsters? c'mon... if your going to make him a secret agent you can actually create some justification as to how he is so bloody competent at finding people in a foreign country, but no they don't bother because then the writers might have to take two minutes to look at the storyboard, all we know is hes superman. Why leave every girl? if your superman you might as well take 2 minutes to do some good... he hurdled every other seemingly impossible obstacle easily enough.... No emotion from daughter or dad at death of friend? what about the parents? what about the OTHER GIRLS??? Where'd the methadone come from and why didn't they simply give us a reason for Neesons superman status? This in-of-itself is why the movie is so horrifyingly bad, they could easily throw two lines in explaining some of the less believable scenes but they don't!

IM ANGRY AND CONFUSED, mainly at how its possible that this received such a high rating. This is the best example i can think of right now of the worst movie ever made, for many many reasons.

All of you who think this is good or relevant to a human trafficking discourse, or that its good for awareness of the topic should seriously get some sense and, i mean this, feel ashamed. The money doesn't go to trying to stop human trafficking, it goes towards the house, cars, and meals of the already FAT Luc Bisson.

Its not the fact that this movie was made that gets me, there are always poor decisions being made for all the wrong reasons all around the world... its the fact that what i thought was a community of (for the most part) intelligent and conscious movie goers is not.

Respect your movies, don't put up with this garbage. Most of all respect the victims of a real and horrifying problem in our world: don't support this cinematic-diarrhea.

As far as zombie movies go, this is worth seeing.

Keep in mind its about Nazi Zombies. So... your gunna have some zombies, who were once Nazis, attacking poor unsuspecting people, in ways which a zombie perhaps doesn't usually attack.

Get used to it, they're organized and surprising, inconsistent and apparently verbal (at the end the zombie leader yells "rise!"). But what do you want? Its a movie about zombies, who were once Nazis, enjoy the great zombie kills, great gore, and hopelessness of a good zombie flick. Too much zombie material these days have no good zombie kills, at least this one delivers an entertaining and funny ride. Give me more Nazi zombie flicks like this, keep it coming i don't care how low the budget is you can do wonders with zombie material with a little creativity (and maybe some Nazis?). It looses one possible rating mark higher simply because they had to be attached to some gold or something...why? Itsa bunch of Nazis they don't need reasons to kill, they're Nazis.

If you liked this film try "outpost", another fantastic Nazi Zombie film which is in a league of its own.