Simulation

Yes, fantastic graphics, good soundtrack, make-up, clearly lots of work has gone into this. But: Content? Acting? Narrative? Sorely lacking. Basically a lengthy synopsis to what might come. Depressing. No idea who all the 10 star reviewers might be.

The story is thin, the CGI is heavy. Any truly substantial dialog doesn't happen until the third act! Everything else is filled up with CGI, unnecessary scenes, and of course, exposition. And more exposition. Exposition is the murderer of story! Show, don't tell! Illogical things happen just so the story could progress towards the "sit-down-and-listen type of explanation" (which I consider it another form of exposition) in the third act.

The director obviously doesn't seem have watched any video online (or read any book) on how to create a balanced story. This film reeks of someone who came into some money and said "I have some big ideas that I want to put on film". But it takes more than scientific interest and self-importance to create a film. It's a craft, and this director/writer has not mastered it yet.

I paid for this film, but now that I've watched it, it's not any better than the films premiering on the DUST channel on youtube for free. It just has more CGI than the usual sci-fi short film.

The short film is more of a display of CGI rather than a story. As a first project, it's a good effort by the filmmaker, but I believe that the story and CGI should have been well balanced. Some of the CGI sequences, especially at the beginning of the film, feels a bit unnecessary and random. Also, due to the lack of depth in the story, I feel like many scenes were uselessly extended. Low light scenes have a lot of noise. I understand that the film had a very limited budget, but with such detailed CGI noise reduction should have been considered.

Coming to the story, it seems to be a bit inspired by The Matrix, but has nothing interesting to offer. The background score of the film is very good. However, in my opinion, it's not worth paying for. Not even the great looking CGI could justify the price tag for the movie. I consider this as a type of short film, which should be available freely on YouTube or other video platforms. I do understand that the producer needs to generate revenue somehow but in my opinion, this model will not work if the movie isn't balanced. Perhaps one should review the journey of the YouTube movie "Kung Fury" and see how one person was able to provide such an entertaining, heavy on CGI, movie with a very limited budget.

I really enjoyed watching this wonderful movie. I didn't expect this high quality of the visualization considering the low budget. Good job guys and keep the good work up! I think I would like to watch a long simulation movie in the future!

For being a low budget movie and not backed by billions of dollars- I feel the movie was intriguing. It kept me curious, the graphics were top notch, the sets were great, the music was moving and the environments felt real.

Some areas where improvements may be needed: 1. Story telling- narration through the plot may be useful - as sometimes I was confused as to what was going on. 2. Acting- sometimes the actors needed more depth in their expressions. 3. Plot- I kind of didn't understand the final plot due to the introduction of the new character, but it could be my interpretation of it.

Overall a great effort and I look forward to the feature film!