Flashout |
USA • 2018 • 90m •
   • Directed by: Richard Lerner. • Starring: Jonathan Goldstein, Maya Stojan, Anthony Napoli, Blythe Auffarth, Malea Rose, Vedette Lim, Allison Dunbar, Lorynn York, Gerald Downey, John Patrick Jordan, Matthew Florida, Mary Gillis, Aria Sirvaitis..  Inside a space habitat in a parallel universe, three young women play the blind date reality game InterMate in order to experience the euphoria of the FLASHOUT. Unexpectedly they find themselves trapped on Earth seeking the missing player of their game. They encounter a jogger, a rocker, a biker, an exploitative owner of an escort service, a radio telescope supervisor, and others vulnerable to their ecstatic FLASHOUT. All the while they are pursued by an awkward Reality Repairman whose assignment is to seal the hole between realities before the Multiverse is permanently altered.
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Review:
This is not an A-lister, big budget film, and those who participated in its creation clearly had that firmly in mind as they crafted this silly sci-fi adventure. This film does not try to be anything other than what it is, and by keeping in its lane, it managed to hold my attention and provide a reasonable amount of (mindless) entertainment.
At times, the dialogue and plot were nonsensical, both intentionally and unintentionally, and likewise, at times the acting was thin on skill - but the film held itself together well enough to be watchable until the end. There were moments of high-camp greatness where the film seemed to be a distant offspring of silly classics like 'Dude where's my car" and "Barbarella", but alas this was not sustained consistently - if Flashout had managed that feat, I would have scored it a solid 6.
Not one to put high on your "must watch" list, but leave it somewhere on there for a grey, rainy day.
Review by troy-boulton from the Internet Movie Database.
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