Interesting premise, but the execution fails. They wasted too much time on pointless interactions between characters and not enough time on the actual scifi aspect. We see very little from the alternate dimensions, when the character actually ventures there, nothing really interesting happens, before she pops back. It's an alternate dimensions gimmick, they could get away with anything and they decided to pick kind of cliché and not very interesting direction of the plot to go in. It made the whole dimensional plot device feel flat with wasted potential. I understand that this is an indie movie and their budget was zero to none, but still, even with that they could spin the dimensional narrative in more interesting ways.
Then there are some plotholes too, where the movie breaks its own made up rules.
And there is also the quite silly and pointless twist right at the end. What exactly was the purpose of that? It was a huge cliffhanger that made this movie look like an episode from a tv show, except there will be no sequel, so the cliffhanger felt very annoying, pointless and pulled out of thin air.
Review of The Gateway
