bustedback2002 This movie is a steaming pile of laziness from everybody involved in producing this turd. A group of washed up actors chewing up the scenery as they deliver lines that could have came from a seventh grader's notebook. This "film" was clearly slapped together and it shows by the lack of attention to detail. Things like steam coming from an air cooled VW that is made to look like it has over heated to the count down clock on the class 15 bomb that keeps jumping around. This VW must have been a time machine because the main character claims to have driven a 73 SuperBeetle to Woodstock. There is nothing new in this movie, everything in this film has been done by every other movie that has been on the SyFy Channel, the hotshot female doctor that turns out to be the love interest of the main character, the gun toting trigger happy army team, and the nuclear bomb that is supposed to save the World. I give this one two thumbs way down and one middle finger way up. Do NOT waste your time watching it.

motor89 Epoch starts out reasonably well... even if it's not very original. An alien artifact -- a strange twisted rock-like formation -- suddenly appears in the remote country of Bhutan and the Americans and Chinese race to reach it. The Americans win and begin to explore it.The problems for the film begin toward the end. It starts to become really stupid. There are interesting narrative threads that are just forgotten about, and people start to do moronic things for no apparent reason. I'm reading between the lines here (I haven't seen the original script so I just don't know), but there seemed to be a theme of life/death/rebirth/pregnancy and how it links with the object (particularly considering the strange Bhutan child and the final scene) but only traces remain the film. Of course, it may just have been a poorly written story... or it may have been butchered later. It does seem as though large chunks of the script were ditched in order to shorten the running time.The film is entertaining at the start but hugely disappointing at the end. It leaves you feeling annoyed at the wasted opportunity.

uscmd I have to agree with the wizard. i'm stuck at home on a Saturday with the flu, and luckily I have every channel Direct TV offers, so there's a lot to choose from.This is a very decent, made for TV sci-fi movie. Complete with philosophical issues, a few plot twists...e.g., 80% of the way through the movie, you don't know if the 'thing' is good or bad.The actors are mostly B and C level players. But the script, and their performance allows one to become absorbed in the storyline. As opposed to many, that are just so plain horrible.......immersion into the story is impossible.I can name 10 movies that have been released in this calender year, ones I've paid 9.00 to see in theater, that I feel are less worthy of 2 hours of my life.I'd classify this, as definitely worth watching for free....if its on TV. Not worth going to see at the theater. Not worth making a special trip to blockbuster, but worth tucking away in the back of your mind for one of those nights when everything else is checked out.I give it a 5.Doc

Henya This movie (if you can call it a movie) is by far the worst creation on the face of the earth. My home made videos are 20 times as good as this piece of cr@p which is not saying much at all.The story line is just horrific the actors are horrible and the special effects are just downright lame.This movie deserves the Worst Movie Ever award.I have never been so disgusted in my life. I just wasted 5.50 cents renting this movie when i could have rented a nice Xbox game.This movie is cr@p Don't watch it at all unless you want to see how stupid these people are but don't expect it to occupy you for more than 10 minutes.