welshnew50
The multiverse-premises as potentially plot-hole full as they are, in the shadow of star trek and some before it, particularly when it comes to the combinations of short-time escapes involving teleportation/matter-materialization , are sometimes of two main kinds of films, when in film - stinkers that have far too much self-importance with convolutions of plot-devices/premises that end up one way or another disappointing as the conclusion approaches/the film ends, usually with too much major-strings orchestral music , OR ones, that have a minimum of travel through sci-fi potentials-upon characters - in adversity - what the characters go through because of the sci-fi that wouldn't in a similar film set without it, that although often with less grandiose/over-importances , often have shallow characters in limited kinds of plot-development opportunity instead - not too many things of sci-fi-opportunities happening to the same character in one film 'principle' that makes ones that do, too absurd , then, too far away from the ordinary person.This film is more-so the former, but in an absurdly limited plot wherein there is, after, the realization aimed for, a vague sense of one-ness per the too-easy to understand title ... a sci-fi premise that WOULD affect everyone (or so the producers/writers would like to think/hope ), but because of the poor writing/editing , then is so pathetically narrowly aimed at a fraction of a fraction of a prison-acting-convinced-by-religion 'person', that it is totally discard-able , and should be resigned to the show-someone-and-see-how-they-react-then-throw-it-away category of not film , but exposure-content guised AS, film.The power-mad ambitions of the who is making these things? question posed by the chooser of content or freedom-giver of slaves in a sci-fi apocalypse, where people cannot help but consume exposure-content , 'genuinely' hoped to affect the people en mass ... *spit*.Pityfully over- confident if not not delusional , such aims ... as well as totally disrespectful of people's capacities to protect themselves mentally / choose content when OMG ... AWARE ... of such content being amongst other choices in the DVD bin.Seems powerful , but its hopelessly unaware of how something that might work upon prisoners in controlled conditions , does NOT work , in public / in such a freedom of choice - freedom of a beggar , is still a freedom in which to choose, etc.Don't try to connect with THAT guy , he's unappreciative, the dismal street-bug , with a surprisingly high resistance , from it being AROUND them , in the city , all the time , in contrast to protected , family and home , loving people , needing protection.Patronizing and if not delusional , then hopelessly out of date , in contrast to no-nonsense type films like the Tower ... people already not worth our time ... heads-explode. classic.Also has unnecessary prison-sadist content best worth FF past / cutting from the end.Also contains a obvious Judau-Christian reference that aims to pretend as though the sci-fi dimensionality theories of the over-excited in astrophysics , have somehow been there all along ... the comb-over of "god" , being in multiverses 'already' ... which as intolerable as it already is ... is so obviously placed on stage , as of the 'beleifs' , of the authority figures in charge of the technology (not theological-learning ) , that you'd have to be blind to miss it.Unnecessary hero-survives another close-shave moment action scenes beyond real-isms of the anti-hero, and impatiently-thought out / cheap camera-work at times, as well as annoying focus upon characters rather than whole scenes per newer hand-held-camera-work-period viewpoints, and a on-and-off audio with constant drumming-affects-heartbeat BS anxiety testing stimulations 'designed' , by the kinds of directors that think they are somehow 'preppers' , for ACTUAL care/treatments , as perceived only, by the INexperienced / over-sentimentalist.Little sentimentality itself, tho - skippable.On the positive side , some OK chase/fight scenes , but of the annoying neo-wrestlers can't be moved commercial-wrestling-franchises type standing-taking-damage gullibility-guff.The limit on the number of dimensions coming into the world/s of the setting is solid tho , perhaps because of the limited plot per my initial paragraph , but to its credit , the limits placed on the characters , particularly the difficulties of the two dimension-jumping police characters in contrast to the anti-hero , is done well enough to maintain enough consistency to follow that part of the plot without difficulty / character value in those two, perhaps, at most.If really not wanting to have to think too much when wanting to watch a sci-fi blast and feel temporarily invulnerable for a moment, and this seems to work for you , then maybe id think for that kind of rating, a 4 maybe a 6 at most, for a bonus star or two for the indirect extra-dimension jumping police's need to have to do some lateral thinking / quick thinking , in contrast to predictable patrol areas , usual amounts of different kinds of crime allocations of officers at different stations experience, etc etc - potentially imagination-expanding.Apart from that , little remains in comparison with much better sci fi.
MartianOctocretr5
Impossible kung fu moves (like jumping dozens of feet in the air from a standing start etc.), black capes, science-meets-fantasy theme. You name it, the Matrix bits are here. At least nobody wore those dumb sunglasses.There's a story threaded throughout about the origins of the super hero and the super villain, and their preoccupation with destroying one another. The whole good/evil mirror images of each other thing. But the story doesn't focus so much on that as use it as an excuse for Jet Li's patented martial arts sequences. There's chases, fights, subordinate characters getting smashed, gun play, and so on. Action rarely slows down, and for a big dumb action/cop/kung fu movie, this one delivers. The bad guy and the good guy each have numerous chances to finish each other off, and never do; the quota of clichés must be met, it seems.Fast food stuff. Enjoyable as you watch, forgotten about an hour later.
joecoolbrad
The good: The effects of going between universes are kind of cool The bad: Action that fails to excite, weak acting, poor script, Quite simple: It's been done before, and done better.I like to say this to people: Just because a movie is full of action and special effects and uses the plot as glue to hold it together, doesn't mean it sucks. As long as I don't care about the plot, the film works.There are films that work with action and plot together to create a masterpiece: The Matrix, for example. There are films that center on plot and characters to create a compelling piece of entertainment. There are films that center on action, and forget about creating a great plot to create a roller-coaster ride to thrill the viewer, for example, Transformers. There are films that just flop on all counts. This is one of those films.The action is boring, the superhuman "One" is clearly taken from THE Matrix, The parallel universe idea is kind of cool, but this is just made boring by the "chase" mentality. The special effects are just lame, so the only thing to save it would be the characters. The characters could be said to be bland, but it goes beyond bland. It's flat out pathetic how dumb and lame this film is in its characters.Bottom Line: STAY AWAY!
