RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Syst3mic This film is so ambitious and such a spectacle unto itself that it really defies reviews that spring from the typical needs of a moviegoer, and yet it really isn't quite an "art" film either. From the outset you just have no idea what is going on, and so you are forced to author your own plot in the most satisfying way. Besides a manuscript somehow lodged in the hull of the ship, What is the relationship between the eerie opening Civil War scenes and the solo mission 200 years alter? I love visual puzzles like this, and frankly they keep me loyal to the end, which may make me a weak critic. However, I want to do more than simply applaud the risks and experimentation, because I feel there is something very solid in the payoff that you truly do have to decide what to do with.

nikkibarreca I love conceptual science fiction and I pride myself in having a pretty robust attention span, so I thought I would find this movie to be interesting. I was wrong. Most of the film consists of repeatedly detailing the daily routine of a man on a space station. You know, running on a treadmill, walking, sitting, typing things on the computer, leaning under things, pulling on wires, reading, thinking, looking at the earth out the window, etc. The beginning of "Love" is very similar to "Moon," minus a friendly talking computer. The middle of "Love" seems to draw a large inspiration from the movie "Solaris." The end of "Love" is the most BLATANT rip off of "2001: A Space Odyssey" that I have ever had the misfortune of viewing in my entire life. I know that there are few original ideas out there,, but most of the time they stop short of outright plagiarism. Interspersed in this movie are interviews and voice-overs of various people spewing mind-numbingly insipid, pretentious, pseudo-philosophical nonsense. The cinematography of the Civil War sequences is beautiful, and I respect the fact that the filmmakers were able to produce such a good looking and sounding movie on a shoestring budget. However, the fact remains that they had an idea for a 20 minute plot that they stretched out into 1.5 hours. Just making something "abstract" and "cerebral" does not make it "good." I happen to like cerebral movies when they are done well. Look at something like "Primer," another low budget sci-fi film. While it is at times confusing, it is very interesting, the plot moves along, it makes you think, and THINGS HAPPEN! Good writing does not cost any money, you either have it, or you don't. And "Love" does not.

captaindiscount I don't understand the reviews claiming that this is a film detailing ''the human condition'. It's a pretentious film that darts back and forth between scenes that add nothing to this apparent exhibition of what it means to be isolated. The film is full of long drawn out shots of the main character sitting down looking at something in his hand. I watched it to the very end and found it to be devoid of any message or story of any kind. The aesthetics are very nice but that's about it. You will get more of a study of this 'human condition' watching Maury. Steve McQueen portrayed isolation better when he was throwing a baseball at a wall. Avoid this film.

bradkrit It started with an incorrect synopsis on Netflix, that Lee found a way to travel through time. At first that made the most sense, since it showed civil war combat at the beginning, which was by far the best part of the movie. Then began the downward spiral into nonsensical, grossly incorrect ISS imitations. At first I told myself it is simply low-budget, they didn't want to CGI weightlessness. It was interesting to try to piece together his character through the snippets of history they show you. It was still irritating to see him walking around on his feet. But for me, the worst part is they show him doing SO MANY gravity-required tasks. Fine, you don't know how to set up a weightless harness. But you don't need to continually show that gravity exists! Just hide it a bit! Drinking water from a bottle, showing it slosh around? Why not just put water in a ziploc baggie to imitate space drinks? JOGGING ON A TREADMILL? Just add some exercise bands to tie him down to look like actual space treadmill running. PUSHUPS? Laying in a twin bed with sheets? Just use a sleeping bag strapped to the wall. COME ON! Jesus, has the writer/director ever seen a space movie? This is simple, cheap stuff. No creativity.The last scene for me was when he woke up to smoke. That was pretty exciting, but then they totally botched it. He jumps up, all intense, runs for his mask, which was a neat addition. Then he grabs one of those plastic clamps you get at lowes... proceeds use it on a pipe and it makes a ratchet sound... WTF? then the pipe falls loose and sucks up the smoke. Wait... no fire? This movie can't really be so pretentious that it wants you to think he hallucinated smoke to vacuum up, but no fire? It literally makes no sense. And I tried my hardest to give it artistic liberty, but there was just far too many lazy flaws in editing and basic concepts.I could not see past the slews of glaring flaws. I did however like how eerie it was to have the control panel light up with strange interference sounds. If it focused on that aspect, and less on random cuts to blurry video tapes and the wall of $10 walmart fans, it would have been a neat movie.