A 'professor' about the same age as his students, missing parents from the flower child age with a VW Bus to boot, people who search for missing people who then go missing themselves, ropes that keep braking, a cave with the bluntest stalagmites in the world, a fountain of ----- youth?
All mixed together for your watching pleasure.
Oh, did we mention that going into the cave results in time dilation? That too.
It is an attractive mess of attractive people, some good car dialog to get things to a level of believability, and some real enthusiasm and some effects done inexpensively but well.
If you like your indie sci-fi done with enthusiasm and good looking cast, dive right in there. There are more enthusiastic ratings among the reviewers and I believe they are sincere - just not critical. I like my plots a little tighter. Hell, I like plots to be a LOT tighter. And I don't understand why an abandoned VW bus is found fresh and brightly colored when a similarly abandoned pickup somewhat later in the movie is found full of unconvincingly applied overgrowth.
The folks behind the movie tried hard, but they bit off a lot more plot than they could work with. Ultimately they called it good and had everyone wake up in a different place at the end.
I would like to think the writers and directors and producers will learn from this and go on to greater things. Maybe even more movies. This is beginner material, contrived but effort is visible.
It is an attractive mess of attractive people, some good car dialog to get things to a level of believability, and some real enthusiasm and some effects done inexpensively but well.
If you like your indie sci-fi done with enthusiasm and good looking cast, dive right in there. There are more enthusiastic ratings among the reviewers and I believe they are sincere - just not critical. I like my plots a little tighter. Hell, I like plots to be a LOT tighter. And I don't understand why an abandoned VW bus is found fresh and brightly colored when a similarly abandoned pickup somewhat later in the movie is found full of unconvincingly applied overgrowth.
The folks behind the movie tried hard, but they bit off a lot more plot than they could work with. Ultimately they called it good and had everyone wake up in a different place at the end.
I would like to think the writers and directors and producers will learn from this and go on to greater things. Maybe even more movies. This is beginner material, contrived but effort is visible.