Collider |
Portugal / Ireland • 2013 • 79m •
  • Directed by: Jason Butler. • Starring: Jamie Maclachlan, Lucy Cudden, Iain Robertson, Teresa Tavares, Amy Cudden, Marco Costa, Susana Tavares, Bella Heesom, Emily Larkin, Rui Soares. • Music by: Ross Dowling, Eanna Hickey.  Somehow transported to a post-apocalyptic future, a small group struggle to get back to the present to save themselves and mankind's future on earth.
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PIECES MISSING It continually feels like we are missing half the movie. In the first episode, someone very early on refers to another person by name and yet there has been no introductions. There are references to others, to one being a cop, and yet there has been no discussion of this. In episode 4, one person pulls out a gun, but to our knowledge there was only one but no explanation for where that person got a gun. Two people leave the building but only one returns with a story about how the other was taken although we don't believe it. At the end those two don't seem to hold any grudge. At one point a character says "before the meteor hit" and that's the first mention of it. Another time one character says to another "I Need You" but we've seen nothing to imply any relationship happening. Nor was there time for that since the storyline is on a short time table.
TIMELINE Maybe time slows down but there is a limited time period (I think 36 hours) to get to the collider and reset everything. But people have time to discuss past lives and mistakes; go exploring outside the building; and just do dumb things.
AMAZING SKILLS Although most have just woken up from their time line in a strange hotel in a foreign country and are just learning about how harsh the outside world is - two of the newbies are allowed to take the only suits and go looking for spark plugs. Wouldn't the guy from that time line and location be the better one for that? When they get to the collider, the person who went missing in the first episode is there and is operating the machine. She says she's read the operating instructions. Is that all it takes to run a nuclear super collider? And then when someone has to replace fuses, the cop, is able to pick up a manual and direct another person to the exact box and decide where the fuses go.
Also after only being awake minutes, the cop says "It's not safe here, we have to move on" but he knows nothing of what is happening and there is a guy right there that has been there longer who could tell him.
BAD CHARACTERS and CHARACTERIZATION None of the characters are really likable. One, a gambler, is made to be selfish and crude and we are to hate him. He's sexist and from the first time we see him grabbing one of the other women, I'm sure no woman would trust him. He finds the spark plugs and plots with another woman to run off with them leaving all the rest behind to their dome. We don't see what happens but we all suspect he ran away and left that other woman to the mercy of the creatures and just saved his own skin. Yet at the very last moment he sacrifices his own life for the others. Made no sense. Also he had a damaged foot but one good foot, two good hands so could easily have climbed up the ladder if he wanted. When they are leaving him, they all talk nicely to him like he is a friend but he has been a pig the whole time.
The cop, the only person we think has a gun, doesn't miss it or even mentions it, when one of the women takes it and puts it in her pants. They then leave to go through the tunnels and he never wonders where his gun is. The gambler guy sees the gun later on in the back of the woman's pants and says "you have a gun" which she denies. I guess neither of them remembered that she used the gun when they were running from the hotel to the tunnel.
Although they only have 36 hours to get the job done and are running ahead of nocturnal monsters and have had some of their own serious internal squabbles and they don't know really what the hell is happening.... they still have time to joke about things like starting up a time travel company. What?
CREATURES There are creatures in this future world but we never know what they are for sure. It is a poor plot device but oddly the one piece that sort of worked. We didn't see them well. They had glowing eyes. Their snarling was scary. They seemed to be limber and vicious. This could have been explained a bit more.
I watched it all just because it was so disjointed and I wondered if there was going to be something near the end that would tie this mess of plot and script together. Nope.
If you have nothing better to watch then it is a fast 2 hours but don't say you were not warned.
Review by moorek from the Internet Movie Database.
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