markkbranson This score is the highest I have awarded a film and this one deserves this score without a doubt. The acting, the camera work, the narrative-- all the elements are clicking here and the only reason I did not give this a 10 is the ending is too ambiguous for me (don't worry, I won't give it away.)The work is post-modern, but with a sci-fi twist to it. The narrative goes back a forth in the relationship between Cole (Richard Danum) and Maya (Gillian MacGregor). The time shifting is the post-modern aspect while the sci-fi emerges when an asteroid about the crash into earth is really an alien attack vessel.Danum and MacGregor are great in this film. I became invested in their relationship and kept my fingers crossed that they would overcome their trials after the truth of the asteroid and their own truths are reveal to one another. I have seen that this film is an "Indie," yet the quality of the acting and camera work belies this title. I have, indeed, reviewed "Indie" films here (recently I just commented on "Scent.") This film simply has too high quality of a look for me to class this work as an "Indie." The talent in front of and behind the camera may not be affiliated with a major studio, but the work certainly has the look of a major production.There are some comments here and elsewhere that fault this film because it doesn't "deliver" on the sci-fi aspect. I conceded there are not creeps here, not action/adventure stuff that those of us in the post "Star Wars" world believe defines sci-fi. But this film has far more important fish to fry so if you really like thoughtful films, high quality films, and films that transcend the usual explosions and/or gore (a la the entire "Alien" product), then take and hour and a half, sit back, dim the lights, and immerse yourself in "Beyond." This film deserves your attention!

terreywest This movie tries to bill itself as a sci-fi survivor story, but just can't quite keep the charade going. First and foremost this film is a ponderous relationship drama. In fact, I'd argue it's a melodrama. The main character is an aloof, disconnected slacker with no more attractive qualities than his swarthy, ill shaven, casually dressed actor can bring by default. His girlfriend Maya is a needling, immature, inconsistent, over-emotional fountain of simultaneous boredom and annoyance.There is nothing to like here. The progression is simultaneously flat and instantaneous, with no actual payoff. The entire premise of the movie is thrown out in its last seconds as an elaborate symbolic representation of the characters' relationship struggle.If you enjoy sniffing your own farts and think that it's particularly engaging to point out the symbolic nature of the static on the television screen over the character's left shoulder while they try to eat pasta from an upside-down fork, this is the film for you.If you want something that isn't trying to be an over-pretentious melodrama, look elsewhere.

Kosh550 This movie is intensely a relationship drama. The marketing of this film was done so egregiously that if you were prepared for a fascinating look into a post alien invasion world and how to stay in a relationship...you would be sorely upset.The truth is that the entire "invasion" is used as a metaphor to help explain the emotions coursing through the protagonist. I'm saddened at the attempt to use Sci-Fi as a ploy to gain attention.The most glaring and obnoxious choice by the creative team is using a T-shirt which appears to have the design of the floating space craft from District 9.But I digress, aside from the blatant attempt to mislead the viewer and the glaring lack of actual science fiction in the film...the acting was superb.If you are able to make it to about the midway mark of the movie then you'll understand. However if you have refused to watch and only wish to move to other more complete films...keep reading. Spoilers ahead:During the course of the flashbacks there is an interaction between the protagonist and the man he saved. This conversation is very revealing and if you remember the first line of the movie and you have some knowledge about Norway then you can begin to piece together the clues left behind at a very alarming rate. It was around here that the movie fell completely apart for me. I realized that the interactions and flashbacks were the main story and everything else was the protagonists imagination. Another clue that was revealed quite early on, how he wanted to keep her in one place and never let her go anywhere with him. Had this been a purely psychological thriller...which it should have been advertised as...I would expand on the many different ways that one concept could be explained or defined by his mind. But we've not time for that. In the end he is shot by the man he's saved. And his flash backs are his minds way of trying to understand and cope with the stress and shock of the situation our protagonist had been placed in. And yes, while in the parking garage the man is dying, we see him in the hospital bed with a strong pulse and his eyes moving in REM sleep.The acting saved this movie and I believe that the writer may have intended for a completely different ending. But we may never know for sure.While I recommend this movie for its acting. I do not recommend this movie for the utter lies and disappointment regarding what was supposedly a Sci-Fi invasion romp. There are many pieces of sci-fi in this film that in no way math with the end result. Again why I said that I believe the writer had a much different vision than say the producers.

imrational I usually have a soft spot for low budget movies. This movie was well photographed, but whoever did the editing did a horrible job. Scratch that, I sincerely doubt that this movie was edited.The movie just drags and drags. At least half the movie should have been cut to make it flow better. Instead, the viewer has to suffer thru countless little melancholy songs while the main character does such interesting things like sitting on a sofa and watching television or standing in the woods and gazing sadly out at the horizon.Whoever was able to watch this movie thru to the end without fast forwarding or picking up the crossword puzzle in the table on front of them... your Ritalin dose is too high.I gave this 2 stars instead of 1 because the camera work is better than most B-Budget films and the acting was fairly decent (even if the script was faulty).The movie description says it is a suspenseful science fiction flick. SPOILERS FOLLOWIt is science fiction in name only. We see a far off spaceship hovering over the horizon in a couple of shots. Nothing more. I honestly hated the main characters. We see them awkwardly flirt at the beginning before driving us nuts with bickering later on. The ending (MAJOR SPOILER): Leaves us hanging without explanation. Yes, some films are better when they make the audience figure out the meaning of the ending for themselves. This isn't one of them.It appears to be a flashback, where the main character is shot trying to find his wife and soon to be born child at the hospital before an asteroid wipes everyone out. We see him die? but then he is in a hospital bed with his wife present. The way it is shot makes us wonder,did he die? Was the future apocalypse just a delusion? Do you even really care? It would have been a better movie if they axed the "science fiction"part, and did a sad little movie about the couple's relationship history.