Stasis (2017) User Reviews

I'm in bed with the flu, and this movie hurts more

[donathanjones · 2/10 · 5 August 2017]

Terminator. Looper. Twelve Monkeys. The Matrix. Even Transformers Age of Extinction (for the under-aged relationship angle).This movie will have you thinking: "I've seen this before..." all over the place, but ultimately it goes to show that while you can pay homage (French for "copy") all you want, a bad movie is just a bad movie.

I've spent most of the day in bed with a fever and headache and wanted something to distract from the pain. In a way I got my wish - who can think of personal suffering when there are others who might one day suffer through this movie too? From the opening monologue (so, so long...) and the first shots, this had "shoestring budget" plastered all over it. Worse than a "made for TV" vibe (I enjoyed The 100 very much) - just cheap.

The actors are mediocre and the dialogue grating. Someone asks the tech guy if they could neutralize a weapon if they "reverse the polarity" and while the response - a withering put-down stare - is funny enough, it just brought into focus the hammy writing.

Unless they are very skillful or expertly directed, a 15 year old actor will act like a 15 year old, no matter the age of the character inhabiting their mind. Clichés abound - the gruff rebel commander, the evil overlord in a crisp military jacket quoting Sun Tzu's "The Art of War", the femme fatal assassin who looks like Halle Berry's body-double's body double. I don't hold it against the actors though - they just wanted to work, and as far as they were aware this could have been their big break (it wasn't).

Let's forgive the time travel plot device - of course it's nonsense but that hasn't stopped other films and TV from using it successfully. But let's not forgive the ending. Just what were they hoping with that? A sequel? A TV spin-off? Not happening. And even if it were, the ending is still just lazy.

And here's my spoiler (so, spoiler alert): as the two agents leave Ava (Eva? Amy?) and her mother they wish her a happy future. But as the whole movie revolves around an impending nuclear apocalypse (which they show her) I can't help thinking that Ava's future is more likely to involve a drug-filled nihilistic rampage followed by years in psychiatric institutions before she gets toasted along with the rest of us.

Find something else to watch. Or go catch the flu and spend a couple of days asleep. It'll be a better use of your time. Two stars - one for the potentially interesting story, and one for the actors who I believe were trying their best.

p.s - they found a picture of the assassin. Good work, people! They showed it to everyone so they could go out and hunt for her (which they don't do). But for some reason they didn't show the sentry at the door, "sentry" being Latin for "guy who's last to know".

p.p.s - the background extras don't know how to handle a gun.

p.p.p.s - every time they refer to an agent as a "skinner" I thought of The Simpsons and that made me happy

The best part of Stasis was of course reading all the great reviews here.

[dirtykungfuman · 3/10 · 5 March 2018]

I would give a more in depth review if I could but i admit i stopped watching it to look up all the negative reviews which provided me more entertainment value then the 10-15 minutes i watched of the film so far.

The acting sucks

[jdreng-27169 · 2/10 · 9 July 2017]

Great concept - but the acting! It sucks like no other movie pretending to be mature. Or any other movie. The characters speak to themselves to underline the storyline. Lines are written as out of a schoolplay. Action is carried out with panting and don't-show-tell teenager one-liners. This movie could have been good.

What did I watch!?

[t_kam · 1/10 · 6 August 2017]

The only good thing about this project(?) is that it appears to give employment to people who would normally be cashing an unemployment cheque. You couldn't really call it a film as it's so terrible with it's attempt at cheesy one liners. The acting is so bad I'd swear this was their first attempt at it if I hadn't checked their previous history. Clearly Netflix is padding out their library with rubbish like this. Do yourself a favour and give it a miss.

Opportunities missed by a country mile...

[tidingofmagpies · 1/10 · 27 November 2017]

This could have been an excellent movie, but from the first scene (post-apocalypse 2067, with heavy road traffic visible in the background) it was obvious this was going to stink. The budget was so low it couldn't even stretch to hiring actors, the universally poor performances seemingly delivered by unwitting members of the public who sounded like they were reading from a shopping list. To sum up how poor this film is, when I logged on to this site, I watched the trailer for the film. It was preceded by an ad for Ferrero Rocher which was infinitely more interesting than the entire film itself. This could have been a really good effort, even with the obviously non-existent budget, but instead it was poorly written, poorly acted, a poorly executed exercise in putting together every cliché in the genre in the least entertaining way possible. All I can really say about spoilers is this: if you actually watch this film, you'll have spoiled your evening when you could have been doing something much more interesting, like watching paint dry.

Barely passable

[nymokarr · 1/10 · 9 July 2017]

This movie was recommended to me in the new releases category on Netflix. So I gave it a go, trying not to be biased by the bad ratings it has already got. But oh boy... The plot of the story is in short that the world is in ruins after a nuclear war that almost wiped out the entire human species. The remaining survivors enlist to become time traveling agents to stop the war from ever happening. These agents are also rebels and when there's rebels there's an almost omnipotent evil government-like force trying to stop the rebels from preventing the war. (Sounds like something I've watched before) I tend to have faith in ridiculous movie concepts, because those movies do, from time to time, blow me away. But I lost faith after the first 3 minutes and kept watching out of curiosity. My god the movie sin counter was off the charts on this one. Trying to create cheesy movie- catchphrases, bad clichés of every sort, that made me cringe at multiple occasions, CCTV has the exact same shot on monitor as in the actual scene, gaping plot holes. No well written characters, dialogue or conflicts.

The plot was wishful thinking at best. I do also think the chronology should have been changed.

The movie also ends in a manner that makes room for a sequel. No thank you.

Swing and a miss

[kerrymanitt · 1/10 · 5 July 2017]

I've seen some terrible movies but this....there are no words. Actors only begin to seem comfortable in their skins at the end of the movie. Plot was good in theory (if you ignore the whole time travel paradox) but missed the mark, left it open to a sequel that I doubt will ever happen. Not much else to say, sorry it's terrible.

Just no... Interesting plot, sub-par acting, terrible lines

[thundernoise · 3/10 · 23 July 2017]

I thought several of the actors had brilliant moments, but the decent moments were repeatedly clouded by actors who played very flat or unnecessarily emotion into their lines. I'd love to see this script rewritten but it is one of the poorest I've seen run.

I thought the worst aspects of the film were Eva insisting "everything is going to be fine" every night before leaving her beau, her mother's manic and somewhat overplayed outbursts followed by apologies in her next appearance at least 3 times, and multiple unresolved plot lines that left me wondering how the script moved forward without addressing what we'd just seen.

It reminded me of Tank Girl (which I actually enjoy) and seemed similarly disjointed, but it also was entirely overdramatic while trying to stay serious which didn't play well at all. If you want to get really drunk and navigate plot holes, this is the film for you.

Three out of ten because it could only be worse if all acting was terrible and the plot was less interesting.

I think many of the reviews are a bit harsh for this one....

[planktonrules · 4/10 · 25 January 2018]

"Stasis" is a very low budgeted film with mostly actors with limited experience. Because of this, I tend to cut the movie some slack. Sadly, many reviewers have savaged the picture and have created the impression "Stasis" is horrible...which it isn't. It has some clever ideas and works provided you aren't expecting what you'd see in a $200,000,000 space epic!

The story begins in the hellish future. Things are awful and most of the people died as a result of wars. Now a totalitarian regime is in power and a small group of radicals are trying to undo this by manipulating time. Using volunteers, they send folks back in time in order to prevent this awful future from ever taking place.

Some of the acting is a bit weak, but again this is a cheaply made film and they gotta learn somewhere. My feeling is if you don't mind a few rough spots, give it a watch. It's now streaming on Netflix.

Would be best to find something else on a Sunday night

[williamkeller-43800 · 2/10 · 16 July 2017]

Truth be told, some parts of the movie had some interest levels, but the quality of acting and random clichés just made it seem cheap. When your inner voice says "it's cheap" you kind of tune out, but I persisted with it. Luckily for me, I was doing some work while watching otherwise I would have wanted my time refunded!

Netflix recommends a lot of movies when they are newly released, but yeah - viewer be warned. The ending is just the kick to the nether regions you'd expect for putting up with the whole thing. The movie just takes a whole turn south the first time "Cabal" is mentioned.

avoid

[britishgoose16 · 9 July 2017]

This film, absolutely terrible. The idea itself is Brilliant, however actors, terrible, acting is atrocious. I had to turn it off after 45mins, I just couldn't finish it it was so bad I don't get, its good good production value and everything, only thing I can think of is the writer and director must be useless. If you want to watch a good film like this watch 12 monkeys with Bruce willis. Brilliant film, excellent story...basically its same film as this but very good.

Mediocre, but at least original.

[dortman-38825 · 8/10 · 27 October 2018]

It was a fairly low budget movie with some pretty weak acting. That said, I really liked it. You are left to make your own conclusion as to the ending. As an amateur historian, I love the fact that surviving what was otherwise a crippling defeat was a sort of happy ending for the rebels.

Stasis 2?

[maxgooding · 6/10 · 29 September 2018]

I watched this despite it's reviews and to be 100% honest, I loved it. Yeah it wasn't a big budget movie but it's quite refreshing to not see the same 5 actors you always see in every movie. The story in my opinion was awesome. Was a little disappointed with the ending though, I felt they could have pushed it to 2 hours and get some extra content in. With that being said, I would love to see a Stasis 2

So very very bad

[thom-mac · 1/10 · 18 December 2017]

This is one of those movies that make you wonder why so much time was wasted making it and why we viewers wasted even a second watching it. Disjointed and senseless don't begin to cover the plot and editing. I'm not even sure you could consider the people in front of the camera as actually acting.

The biggest improvement they could make would be to put a warning label at the very beginning, even before the credits roll, advising you to go out and shop at Wal Mart in your pajamas or something that will give you more purpose in life than watching this dog.

It's a waste of time

[patrick-45740 · 2/10 · 13 October 2017]

Don't watch this unless one of your friends or relatives is in it and then only watch it once. Be gentle with the feedback to them.

If you do watch it, i warned you!

The special effects are bad, the steampunk look is not on par and the characters don't do much.

I thought Netflix showed FAIRLY decent stuff.

[lancer165 · 2/10 · 8 July 2017]

I should have checked out the IMDb SCORE. Not always perfect but would have warned me. A time travel tale and guess what not unlike Terminator we try to go back and make a change. The future we see is not entirely clear to me as it seems that the world change has been due to something like the New World Order destroying it and futuristic rebels are trying to undo the damage. The male co star was playing me it seems. Younger taller and attractive and is god enough to act in a high school play. The female lead due to the fact that I can be quite a lecher was maybe the most interesting thing on screen. I saw some moments of an attempt to put some class into the story but a lot of things jumped about with acting being of a fairly low standard the dialogue not always flowing well. It must be hard to learn lines with conviction if those lines seem just wrong and unnatural. I was not impressed with the gung ho speech delivered by the Skinner leader who tried to emulate a sort of Lee Emery gunnery Sgt from Full Metal Jacket or such and the follow up Hell Yeah type group response. I think at present time travel tales will find it hard to beat the 12 monkeys series on at present. That has impressed me but I find I cannot remember the movie version so may revisit. Has this been another tax dodging effort?

Amazed to see some people liked this

[ersbel · 25 July 2017]

As already pointed out the acting is terrible. The costumes are also low quality. And do not show imagination either.

But to think the script is passable is quite silly. So a technology that was unavailable with 7 billion people is doable once there are 7 billion people less and the hundred or so individuals are split into warring clans. Right. There is no maintenance but civilization uses the same industrial plastics from before.

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Atrocious Acting

[sadoi · 1/10 · 13 July 2017]

Rarely do I come across a movie I absolutely cannot stomach to finish. Typically, I do not pay heed to most reviews because I have been pleasantly surprised in the past over movies I assumed would be terrible. However, in this case, the acting was so horrid, the lines so cheesy and low brow that I felt more like I was watching one of those awful "Sci-Fi Network" type movies, which are oddly even Better than this one! I got about one hour in when I just couldn't bear to proceed. I literally had to stop this movie based on the acting and ridiculous lines Alone. The story line has True potential and I was excited, originally, by the plot. Yet, within minutes, I had an issue. Even still, I tried to press on because its weird with me. Once I get about 30 mins worth of a movie under my belt, my curiosity usually carries me through despite my like or dislike of said flick. Some rare movies, though, I cannot muster the desire to complete. In my life, my Entire Life, I have only walked Out of 5 films, just so you get the idea, and I have watched thousands. Do yourself a favor. Do Not waste a single minute of your life on this film because If you do, you Will wish you could travel back in time too just so you can stop yourself from watching this flick!!

I have never seen a movie deserving such a low review

[YesWeCan2017 · 1/10 · 13 March 2019]

When Netflix is recommending rubbish like this, then you wonder what's next.. perhaps it's time to scrap the subscription and go back to pay-as-you-go?

Really unimpressed that this got into the Netflix library

I'm not sure even MST3K could make this enjoyable

[jrdimdb · 1/10 · 30 December 2017]

This was perhaps the worst movie I've ever seen. If some algorithm suggests this movie to you, and you're not on the MST3K payroll, never trust that algorithm again.

High school students could do better!

[cybelemoon · 1/10 · 11 January 2018]

I'm the type of person who is easily entertained. I'm not overly judgmental of movies in general. HOWEVER, this one was an exception! I did manage to watch the entire thing, painstakingly as it was. I kept hoping something would get better.

The acting in this is really amateur, as my title states, I know high school students who could do better. Over acted lines. Lines spoken that sounded like people were reading during rehearsal before being instructed on how to speak the line with the proper emotions and emphasis. And that isn't even touching the physical aspects of the acting, just bad!

The story could have been done better, it really was a huge disappointment. So many things were wrong that I can't begin to explain them all. But the whole concept was ruined by the way things were portrayed and done.

My suggestion to anyone who is considering watching this, just don't. You will only be frustrated with every moment and then have to find something different to watch to calm your nerves! Sadly a really bad movie!

acting in stasis

[hilarybreeze-59118 · 1/10 · 30 August 2017]

Wow! Wow, wow wow wow? what acting school did these people drop out of? They are equally terrible but the lead actress, Hanna Harr is particularly over her head acting 2 roles. Casting Director should be fired! This is a great sci fi movie for 11 yr. old's; I only say this because my 11 year old watched it briefly longer than I did. it's a WTH and a DNF for me... so bad 👎

Best Sci Fi Movie. Watch this Instead of Transformers

[artjmack · 10/10 · 10 July 2017]

This movie is just amazing. The concept and plot is awesome. The movie was filmed in only 12 days and with that production schedule, it shows. Acting is bad... Effects are half made. But the story is one of the most original I have seen in a while. Instead of spending money on a Transformers movie I spent a better time watching this original idea.

Stasis, bu when is the rest coming?

[starlyte-749-378925 · 6/10 · 17 August 2017]

I think I must be one of the few who really enjoyed this, even if it is a bit ... obvious, at least at the "almost end". Exiting, good plan, but it left me wondering when or if we will see the end? An interesting time travel plot, and a situation rather over used in so many world disaster style films, although quite well carried out here. Some interesting twists, and a little good action, but I'd like to see a follow up... In all it is worth while watching, despite some slightly pretty middle class acting, although the plot and the story line make up for it. Seen better, but seen far, far worse, so watch, enjoy and bite your nails, just a bit. Sorry, no spoilers, or nothing would be worth the time spent on it. Good SF, world in ruins with rebels on the good side, and the nasty world "rulers" as the baddies, but that does miss a deeper look. Although it's not an action packed war film, it is a war story, quite horribly plausible in its' setting, bearing in mind that we're watching SF, so I, for one, really do hope there will be a "Stasis 2".

A waste of time

[roastrolog-com · 1/10 · 7 October 2017]

I thought it will be an interesting movie ( the concept and the plot seem very attractive) but what a disappointment! For a second i thought i'm watching a second grade play....the actors are not getting into their roles at all ( just at the end they seemed more relaxed, but perhaps they were like this because they were also glad this ridiculous thing was coming to an end). do not waste your time! really is a huge stupid movie.