I will say this film was better than many recent films I've seen. I grew up in a time when plot and storyline actually mattered and films weren't just thrown together like they are today. I do agree with another reviewer that said It has a weak storyline/plot and it's pretty slow. My biggest complaint is that is felt like a musical at times. I can't stand movies that include some actor/actress singing. It feels weird and it doesn't belong. I think music belongs in musicals. Outside of that, it was watchable but that's all I can say. Many films today I can't even finish so I guess that's some kind of compliment but it can't live up to many movies I've seen just 20 years ago.
8 Reviews
Waste of Time
James198219 August 2020
Save your time and skip this one...
JohnFilm70514 August 2021
Horribly directed and written, how are these movies even green lit and whose foolish enough to spend the money?
Save your time and go for a walk, or watch paint dry, or the grass grow. Anything else is better than watching this movie. Hard pass.
Save your time and go for a walk, or watch paint dry, or the grass grow. Anything else is better than watching this movie. Hard pass.
Absolutely zero logical sense
mason2519 February 2024
Had the premise of the movie been different, it may have been plausible, but as a well known regular run of the mill debt relief program that everyone knows about.... not so much.
In the world within the movie, it's clear that people can go missing enmasse, and no one ever goes looking for them or raisinging awareness of it.
Keeping in mind that the people the program is taking or enslaving, are people who are deep in debt. Not exactly the most able bodied people. They then proceed to enslave them to doing the most meaningless of all labors, clear cutting some forest jungle land for a pipeline.
Why not just spend the money and get the job done properly with proper crews and equipment.
Yes your free labor force will eventually get the job done, but practically it would take them 20 X as long as a real crew, thus delaying the contracting companies progress.
In the world within the movie, it's clear that people can go missing enmasse, and no one ever goes looking for them or raisinging awareness of it.
Keeping in mind that the people the program is taking or enslaving, are people who are deep in debt. Not exactly the most able bodied people. They then proceed to enslave them to doing the most meaningless of all labors, clear cutting some forest jungle land for a pipeline.
Why not just spend the money and get the job done properly with proper crews and equipment.
Yes your free labor force will eventually get the job done, but practically it would take them 20 X as long as a real crew, thus delaying the contracting companies progress.
Must watch dystopian film
HabsGirl896 August 2020
Feels right for our times
dahabworlddancer10 August 2020
This dystopian film is the right mood for the current state of affairs. With so many people struggling just to make ends meets, this films imagines a world that is not so distant from ours. The actress that plays Maggie is just amazing, the camera loves her. Worth checking out.
Interesting film!
ewakreamer10 August 2020
No one cares THAT MUCH about student debt!
bretthernan-0273320 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
There could have been a good movie here if only someone decided to question the motivations behind the actions driving the story whilst it was still in embryonic script development stage but, obviously, no one ever bothered and the result is that what we've got here is a film that's confusing, preposterously outlandish, illogical and just plain silly.
The pretense of the scenario is based upon the crushing conscientious weight of student debt for which people are apparently wholly prepared to live for years on end in concentration camps with armed guards, brutality, attacks dogs and all of those other atrocities that the civilised world in which this film is apparently set, (you wouldn't know, since they don't bother giving you any idea about which country this movie is set in), countries that have spent the last 70 years since the end of WWII legislating and outlawing out of existence through rules and laws designed to ensure nothing of the kind ever again has any chance of happening, and yet, for some crazed reason, the makers of this film expect us to somehow throw aside all comprehension of these aspects of modern life and fully accept that some corporation somewhere deemed it 'best business practice' to incarcerate the student loan debt laden poor with a cruel regime of suffering that would, in any real world scenario, see their board of directors quickly locked up for decades and their company sued until a meter deep layer of earth on their company head office building site had been bagged up and flogged off in order to settle the masses of damages lawsuits.
If you're prepared to initiate 'nuclear response level logic wipe suspension of disbelief' then this film may be, for you, a peak viewing experience, whereas, for myself, it's logical flaws so voraciously made themselves glaringly and prominently omnipresent that I couldn't stomach another second of it in under the first 30 minutes.
However, if you detest logic then prepare yourself to enjoy- People who live in a slick, 21st century environment in some unnamed nation where people live on the street in the manner of 15th century peasants, dealing daycare services for babies (that magically disappear after one scene) from the back of a car which are paid for with a handful of spare change,.
Heads of medical departments who think pressuring staff into sex to keep their job a valid option something that would actually occur in the manner in which this film believes it possible.
Unmolested by law, 'work camps' utilising armed guards, barbed wire and complete lack of heavy earth moving equipment as best practise for their end goal.
I'm sure it later revved up to suck hard enough to empty a carcass of bones in under ten seconds were it a domestically available vacuum cleaner, but I'm not prepared to suffer another minute of it to find out as early on I deduced its 'resolution' point ending, and how we were going to get there, (with ample gratuitous violence employed whilst boyfriend rescuing girlfriend, escaped the camp).
My only remaining question would then be- "Guys, maybe you need to locate your baby?"
The pretense of the scenario is based upon the crushing conscientious weight of student debt for which people are apparently wholly prepared to live for years on end in concentration camps with armed guards, brutality, attacks dogs and all of those other atrocities that the civilised world in which this film is apparently set, (you wouldn't know, since they don't bother giving you any idea about which country this movie is set in), countries that have spent the last 70 years since the end of WWII legislating and outlawing out of existence through rules and laws designed to ensure nothing of the kind ever again has any chance of happening, and yet, for some crazed reason, the makers of this film expect us to somehow throw aside all comprehension of these aspects of modern life and fully accept that some corporation somewhere deemed it 'best business practice' to incarcerate the student loan debt laden poor with a cruel regime of suffering that would, in any real world scenario, see their board of directors quickly locked up for decades and their company sued until a meter deep layer of earth on their company head office building site had been bagged up and flogged off in order to settle the masses of damages lawsuits.
If you're prepared to initiate 'nuclear response level logic wipe suspension of disbelief' then this film may be, for you, a peak viewing experience, whereas, for myself, it's logical flaws so voraciously made themselves glaringly and prominently omnipresent that I couldn't stomach another second of it in under the first 30 minutes.
However, if you detest logic then prepare yourself to enjoy- People who live in a slick, 21st century environment in some unnamed nation where people live on the street in the manner of 15th century peasants, dealing daycare services for babies (that magically disappear after one scene) from the back of a car which are paid for with a handful of spare change,.
Heads of medical departments who think pressuring staff into sex to keep their job a valid option something that would actually occur in the manner in which this film believes it possible.
Unmolested by law, 'work camps' utilising armed guards, barbed wire and complete lack of heavy earth moving equipment as best practise for their end goal.
I'm sure it later revved up to suck hard enough to empty a carcass of bones in under ten seconds were it a domestically available vacuum cleaner, but I'm not prepared to suffer another minute of it to find out as early on I deduced its 'resolution' point ending, and how we were going to get there, (with ample gratuitous violence employed whilst boyfriend rescuing girlfriend, escaped the camp).
My only remaining question would then be- "Guys, maybe you need to locate your baby?"
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