The Beyond (2017)

Astronauts explore a wormhole, encounter the unknown. Perfect for sci-fi fans of *Interstellar* and *2001: A Space Odyssey*.

Genres: Science Fiction

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The Beyond(2017)

Movie1h 32mEnglishScience Fiction
5.1
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Director: Hasraf Dulull

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A space agency launches a groundbreaking mission, sending astronauts enhanced with advanced robotics through a newly discovered wormhole. When the crew returns far sooner than expected, officials scramble to piece together what happened beyond the Void and what it could mean for humanityโ€™s future.

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Pros: ambitious sci-fi concept; thoughtful themes; strong effects at times | Cons: shaky documentary style; technobabble-heavy dialogue; uneven pacing and acting

Will You Like This?

You may like this if you enjoy idea-driven sci-fi about space exploration and what it means to be human, like G-Loc or Air; Not for you if you hate shaky found-footage style or slow, talky stretches.

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Really Slow moving story that in the end makes you wonder why you watched it???

Psssssssssssst...hey... don''t listen to these children.. go ahead..push play.. it''s a good one when you''ve seen everything but still want some scifi background noise while you eat your kids Valentine''s day candy

What a waste of time, it fails to build any kind of suspense and just piles up cliche after cliche. I''m also not a scientific but even at my basic level it is so far stretched that it becomes ridiculous and ruins any kind of immersion.

This movie is wild, I enjoyed it so much especially with the documentary style.

This spent way too much time exploring the "Human 2.0", brain-in-a-robot story line and not nearly enough time on "the Void" in space and the spheres that were surrounding the Earth. The documentary style just didn't work and the acting wasn't great. There were some decent effects and others that seemed always out of focus and blurry. I kept seeing reused shots. It started to remind me of old Filmation cartoons where the character keeps running past the same background. In concept, this was an interesting "Contact" meets "Arrival" idea that just slipped in execution. The ending felt preachy, too. It was the old man-destroys-the-earth deal.

I have no idea how this garbage got even a 6 overall average. Zero should be an option just for garbage like this. It's set up like a documentary (as others have commented) which tends to be boring and droll unless you feel like you are learning something which in a fantasy movie is completely ridiculous. As a result of the "documentary" format, the characters are flat with only basic glimmers of humanity, as if the idea of making humans into robots or androids isn't lacking enough humanity in and of its own. Add absolutely horrible acting. Not that you notice because the script itself sucks. But that's why there's no major actors that took this garbage on. 45 minutes in and I was trying to continue just to be as fair as possible in the review, but it sucked so bad, I just couldn't do it

Structured like a Documentation. But without any real Tension Curves. Boring!

Plays as a found footage/documentary style movie. It fails to build suspense and remains slow and boring throughout. If faced with this movie my recommendation would be to avoid it and watch (or re-watch) Arrival or Interstellar.

The method of story telling was unique and interesting, but you have to really try to make it mean something more than a painting on the wall.

Relaxing fictional documentary. Kind of like a David Brin story or Herzog''s _The Wild Blue Yonder_. It doesn''t have tension because it''s not supposed to. Great costumes and special effects for a high-concept indie.

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While The Beyond has reasonably good special effects and adequate acting; the writing and direction are unforgivable. Most Sci-Fi uses technobabble as a plot device to move the story along while The Beyond features many nonsensical monologues of nothing but technobabble. If you have even a passing interest in space travel, cosmology, Maxwell's Rainbow, or just general science; you may find much of the dialog to be bordering on word salad. Camera direction is inconsistent and perplexing. Sometimes the camera is steady as if on a tripod, but even when it should be steady, such as a local news crew doing a man-on-the-street interview or a camera affixed to the outside of the space station, the camera shakes and swerves around like you're watching Cloverfield or The Blair Witch Project.

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