Trying so hard to accept this absolutely impossibly shitty science... comets cracking phones... right... and causing a breakdown of reality for just one night even though comets are in the sky for weeks or even months...and they don't just break up and disappear. There are usually remains than can still be tracked. Shoemaker–Levy 9 broke apart and was tracked for two years before it impacted with Jupiter. This comet broke apart and vanished in 30 seconds? It looked like a sparkler with pieces just zipping away. WTF? And why just at night? Why didn't it affect reality during the day? Why was it house specific? It seems like everything on the same side of the planet facing the comet would be affected together. I realize that the answer to these questions is "low budget", but the story could have at least attempted to explain it while they were all throwing around stupid conversation at the dinner table.
Having a jump cut every 60s seconds doesn't help. And who puts a jump cut in the middle of a scene? Just so we don't have to watch someone walk from the doorway to the other side of the kitchen island? Really? Just change camera angles, don't insert a fraction of a second of black and advance the time 5 seconds... so dumb.
The first 45 minutes is almost unwatchable with crappy perspectives, choppy scenes, unnecessary jump cuts, horrendous dialogue, stupid characters, and tedium abound. None of the characters are all the likeable so putting with the rest of the crap is really hard. There needs to be one thing to get through the setup; likeable characters, great dialogue, interesting plot, pretty visuals, something! Unfortunately this movie has nothing to keep the viewer watch for the first half. After that, the story finally gets going, but the characters are still unlikable and continue to make horrible decisions in general. Let's drink and fight with each other instead of trying to figure what is going on. That seems like a good idea...
That being said, there are some smart things they decide to do. I especially love the box idea as a verification method. That is pretty brilliant, actually. Though how is it that everyone came up with the exact same solution? Some would in florence others purely on timing of implementing it and discovery by others. But everyone doing the same thing? Unlikely. The single house, multiple realities was a fun twist on a premise, but hardly original or mindblowing. The story of the wife killing her husband yet having her husband alive was nice foreshadowing in several ways. The change up of who was an original member of the party and who wasn't added some interesting story twists. The fact that Em finally realized that no matter how long you search you aren't likely to find your starting point is good, especially since she doesn't know what her house's box is since they hadn't made it yet when she left. I hate shows that indicate you can find your way back to your own reality out of infinitely many, or even just an incredibly large number. Though I have to wonder about the ones that stole back their box. How do they know it was their box and how did they manage to make the same random jump to that reality? That part might be worth a rewatch to see if it was explained or if it was an oversight.
Review by wpafbo79VIP 4BlockedParent2022-04-30T05:34:28Z
Trying so hard to accept this absolutely impossibly shitty science... comets cracking phones... right... and causing a breakdown of reality for just one night even though comets are in the sky for weeks or even months...and they don't just break up and disappear. There are usually remains than can still be tracked. Shoemaker–Levy 9 broke apart and was tracked for two years before it impacted with Jupiter. This comet broke apart and vanished in 30 seconds? It looked like a sparkler with pieces just zipping away. WTF? And why just at night? Why didn't it affect reality during the day? Why was it house specific? It seems like everything on the same side of the planet facing the comet would be affected together. I realize that the answer to these questions is "low budget", but the story could have at least attempted to explain it while they were all throwing around stupid conversation at the dinner table.
Having a jump cut every 60s seconds doesn't help. And who puts a jump cut in the middle of a scene? Just so we don't have to watch someone walk from the doorway to the other side of the kitchen island? Really? Just change camera angles, don't insert a fraction of a second of black and advance the time 5 seconds... so dumb.
The first 45 minutes is almost unwatchable with crappy perspectives, choppy scenes, unnecessary jump cuts, horrendous dialogue, stupid characters, and tedium abound. None of the characters are all the likeable so putting with the rest of the crap is really hard. There needs to be one thing to get through the setup; likeable characters, great dialogue, interesting plot, pretty visuals, something! Unfortunately this movie has nothing to keep the viewer watch for the first half. After that, the story finally gets going, but the characters are still unlikable and continue to make horrible decisions in general. Let's drink and fight with each other instead of trying to figure what is going on. That seems like a good idea...
That being said, there are some smart things they decide to do. I especially love the box idea as a verification method. That is pretty brilliant, actually. Though how is it that everyone came up with the exact same solution? Some would in florence others purely on timing of implementing it and discovery by others. But everyone doing the same thing? Unlikely. The single house, multiple realities was a fun twist on a premise, but hardly original or mindblowing. The story of the wife killing her husband yet having her husband alive was nice foreshadowing in several ways. The change up of who was an original member of the party and who wasn't added some interesting story twists. The fact that Em finally realized that no matter how long you search you aren't likely to find your starting point is good, especially since she doesn't know what her house's box is since they hadn't made it yet when she left. I hate shows that indicate you can find your way back to your own reality out of infinitely many, or even just an incredibly large number. Though I have to wonder about the ones that stole back their box. How do they know it was their box and how did they manage to make the same random jump to that reality? That part might be worth a rewatch to see if it was explained or if it was an oversight.