The Man from Earth: Holocene

The man from earth is my favorite movie ever made. It is amazing. I love it for the narrative style yet mind blowing content. This movie made my sci-fi loving imagination explode, in the end I gave it a standing ovation while being in my room in front of a PC.

And they made a sequel. And it has nothing to do with the first one, dont expect it to. Yes it is about the same fictional persona, yet the movie style is completely different. Now its a teenage adventure, and, to be honest, I wouldnt even watch it to the end if it wasnt out of respect to the first masterpiece.

So give it a shot, but dont expect it to be on the same level. Its different.. and flat.

IMHO first movie was everything: Interesting, clever, intriguing, intelligent, captivating, just continue with superlatives... Heck, I registered here just to be able to rate it, and I've praised it to my friends. Most of them liked it as well. I was thrilled when I've heard about this sequel and I was eager to watch it. Now I would like to un-watch it, because it was completely unnecessary, it actually destroyed mystique of first movie.

The Man from Earth is one of the most amazing movies ever, I mean there is no other movie of that kind, at least to my best knowledge, and more importantly the movie ended exactly how it should have, it was Perfect in every sense.

The Sequel was a good attempt to say the least but the acting and story itself was rather disappointing. The whole theme of the movie got somewhat disrupted, the original Man from earth was a complete scientific exploration on its own, there was a touch of mystery, facts, a classic debate over human existence and the Gods, where as the sequel was more centred towards John's character, his personal life, and a bunch of school kids investigating his identity, no mystery, no debates, nothing new..viewers already know who and what John is.

So to conclude, its almost impossible to extend a movie like The Man from Earth, my expectations weren't high to begin with but I watched it anyway hoping I will be proved wrong but of course that never happened. So, while I definitely appreciate the effort, I strongly believe that they should have left it where it ended.

It was a clear disappointment. The 2007 movie is definitely worth watching over and over, this one not so much.

I only gave three stars because of David Lee Smith. I can't forgive myself for ignoring all the negative reviews and deciding to give this a shot anyway. To the fans of the original film: don't watch this. Seriously, just don't. Watch the original one more time instead.

It's very hard to believe Holocene was created by the same people. The script, the casting - everything is so much worse. Acting by the four kids is just painful to watch, not to mention that all four characters seem to be clinical sociopaths with zero bad feelings about doing things that any sane, civilized human being would feel extremely uneasy partaking in. And what the what was there, at the very end? I won't include any spoilers, but... seriously?

I can't say I expected it to be a masterpiece like the original film, but I didn't expect it to be so bad. Please drop the idea of another film or a TV series.