a5c7b9f00b When the Universe decides what it wants, it&#39;s pointless to resist. With his family&#39;s life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test subject of a maniacal scientist in a battle that could save the world, or destroy it. Why? I watched this film with no expectations at all, didn&#39;t know what it was about, and really didn&#39;t care. The buildup is somewhat cheesy but well-done familiar territory, and I was sympathetic to or angry with most of the characters by mid-film. So I was getting emotionally involved, and it didn&#39;t hurt that logic didn&#39;t suffer too much, even if motivations and dynamics were over-the-top. Then it hit me what was going on, the building of a superhero, so to speak. As if the film understood when I was supposed to get this, it revved up immediately and kept me entranced with its continuous upward arc of lights and sound. Yes, the effects were olden-daze, but I kept saying to myself, &quot;Nice work with a low budget!&quot; After all, who cares if its retro if it&#39;s GOOD, right? This ramp-up continued to make me smile until the fine crescendo, and all the implausible yet necessary events collided to make this a mix of Armageddon and Silver Surfer! <br/><br/>What hit me is that they told a story simply, without having to appeal to comic fanboys with cute or snarky dialogue, or &quot;correct&quot; characterizations. If the complaint is how many coincidences and untested theories have to be withstood in order to accept the premise, how is that different than Hulk or Spider-Man transformations, or Stryker creating Wolverine&#39;s adamantium skeleton? Not at all, if you ask me. So the film also stands on its owna genre film that has no previous background (of which I&#39;m aware).<br/><br/>Strangely, while writing this review, I discovered that director Matthew Charles Santoro worked on, among other things, the VFX for Marvel&#39;s Silver Surfer movie! So that makes sense! Woohoo! I was right! The only thing that is good in this movie are the CGI effects. Everything else is not good (bordering - bad). You can watch the first 15-20 minutes and than jump to the last 10 minutes.
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