EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

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

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

killerzus Watching this, I got a feeling it was from the makers of Black Mirror, but seeing it wasn't I was surprised they managed to capture the same feeling as the Black Mirror series. The story is set in the near future when biotechnology is further along and can produce memories from drugs, creating a false memory in just a few seconds of days-long vacations and other sorts.If you like Black Mirror, this is recommended. If you like this and haven't seen Black Mirror, you should watch it. If you don't like Black Mirror, this might be slow to watch. As with the Black Mirror episodes, it also gives you alot to think about, and a deeper meaning to it rather than just another movie.

Hajimoto0625 I wasn't sure if I was going to like this movie, but the fact that it starred Jessica De Gouw (who is absoutely gorgeous in this one) made it an easy decision to give it a go. And I was handsomely rewarded for my decision.I'm not going to go into details about the film, and ruin it for you, but as a fan of science fiction with interesting concepts, this movie checked all of the boxes. Back in the early 80's, a film called 'Brainstorm' (Natalie Wood's last movie) got me hooked on this genre. OtherLife carries the torch quite well. It has a really interesting concept that is easy to follow, and really makes you think. The visuals are excellent, the story is well crafted, and the acting is really good. I can always tell that a movie is good when it seems shorter than it really is, and in this case 96 minutes just flew by. At the end, I found myself thinking "hmmmm, what if???"Kudos to the Australian film industry for another winner! I am really impressed with the movies they've been turning out

tomntempe A real snooze fest. I gave up 22 minutes in. The movie was going nowhere, literally... we were trapped in the "lab" building so to speak with endless scenes of vials with automatic squirting fillers doing something but who knows what, it was never explained. In fact, pretty much nothing was ever explained, it was all just mysterious "we can do this that and the other thing just by saying it". The brother, who presumably has been in a vegetative state for a while, looks like he just stepped off the cover of GQ and laid down in a hospital bed for a quick nap before going to his next model shoot. The Main girl scientist? programmer? savant? went around looking all pouty while her boyfriend was forced to party without her yet of course the boyfriend was not moving on. And in this world of presumably micro this and that since we are dealing with literally molecular level adjustments in the brain the girl can just intuit the "numbers" as if being "close enough" for brain surgery (by chemicals) is plenty good enough. There was not even a pretense of "science" presented, it's all just wave your hand and "make it so" movie science. Really, it's just boring boring boring. How anyone found this turkey compelling is beyond me.

turiya0207 This movie is a diamond in the dust! It is an Australian production that is far better than many Hollywood movies and...contains no effects. It is actually a philosophical movie, rather logical, different from the bulk of alien invasion and high-tech robotics sci-fi stories. It has some good twists and is well thought through. I think the idea is genius. Here are some of the issues I found most exciting:Could we program the brain by biological code we've written on a an electronic machine? Could we consciously choose to experience something in another time- frame of the psyche (as in our sleep)? Could we actually replace years of meditation with a non-addictive drop of chemistry? Could we finally differentiate mind from human will? Could we prove that human will is responsible for all life decisions, even in the states of comma? Could we relive our worst nightmare and find a way to brake the chain? Could we stop any invention from being used for causes dangerous or inhuman?