intermedx This is truly an amazing fillm. The concept of recordingmemories and the ability to change alternare universes is not for the intellectually lazy. As a result, many will dismiss this gem of a film. I neither can nor will give away spoilers here, but will encourage those who are seeking a film that is Sci-fi and existentialism, this is it.

siderite This movie is another take on the popular motif of the afterlife. This time, it all starts from a point where it has been proven some part of us goes somewhere when we die and we get what this does to people. It was interesting, it raised some questions about the nature of personal reality and regret, but it was difficult to like almost any of the characters in the film. The "regular guy" lead is just a selfish and self centered ass, while the woman he falls for is almost as bad, the dad is awful, the mother horrible. The only normal person there was his brother, who of course has a simple supporting role. Robert Redford's character was equally obnoxious, but in his case I think it was necessary, as the scientist who apparently thinks only of his work, hurting the people around him. Bottom line: you work through a lot of painful scenes of obvious attempts at video art and deep meaning, which by their very nature are neither artistic nor meaningful, only to get to the somewhat interesting twist at the end. The movie is watchable, but nothing beyond average.

rosasantosfelix I believe that casting has a huge part on creating a good movie, that was not one of the cases. Jason Segel?! Really? The boring neighbour who never says anything interesting, the one who talks about the new taxes laws or the weather? No empathy at all with him, all the scenes with him gives me the will to have a break and go check my Instagram. The weirdo brother... Jesse Plemons, boring and very bad acting, please, how interesting would be with Jeremy Davies, the real weirdo-intelectual (!)? It could be an interesting movie, with good actors.

Kapten Video Lookie here: an intelligent sci-fi movie. This means usually that almost everybody in it is downtrodden and serious all the time, the atmosphere is sombre and the story makes attempts to challenge us intellectually. All these boxes have been checked in „The Discovery", too. Son (Jason Segel) accuses father (Robert Redford) for mother's suicide. Father doesn't argue, is too busy with searching the truth about afterlife. After he unveiled the proof of its existence, many have just gone and killed themselves, so further studies are in order. Also playing, Rooney Mara, Jesse Plemons, Mary Steenburgen, Riley Keough. Premiered at Sundance film festival and distributed worldwide by Netflix, „The Discovery" ain't bad but as a whole, it's not especially good either. I would place the blame on co- writer/director Charlie McDowell succeeds in generating some suspense throughout the movie but has not discovered how to make story somehow interesting also visually, and has only gotten mediocre performances out of most actors involved, especially the three leads. Jesse Plemons – unknown but with lots of TV experience – is by far the most expressive and memorable actor of the bunch here. Steenburgen, too, is good as always although she has only couple minutes of screen time. Still, it's interesting to see Segel of the Apatow bunch taking on a rare serious part. And it's always nice to meet Redford again whose better days as an actor ended with the 20th century. The screen legend is 81 already, and has lost most of his facial expressiveness by now, so his performance is suitably creepy considering his role and the dark atmosphere of the movie. Movies like this tend to receive more favorable critics' reaction when they're all indie and/or made in Spain or something (at least outside the US). Thus the score is low in both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic: 55/100 and 45/100, respectively. The IMDb users have been reacting better, the score is 6.3/10 which seems more adequate to me. A fun fact: Mara is co-writer/director McDowell's girlfriend and Steenburgen is his mother.