Andromeda

It's one of them films where you have to figure out what is going on yourself.

It promised a lot but failed to deliver.

It shows a young man having what looks like a nervous breakdown talking to his shrink a lot.

The plot is that his dad is some kind of genius who has created a device to travel the Universe and shape reality.

Some Nasa guys who want to send him to go look for his father who has gone missing after failed attempts sending other people.

His father left when he was a young child

The rest I am guessing is just a drug induced fantasy.

Aka the scifi bit.

Low budget and it shows.

The acting was ok.

This movie is a great effort, but falls short in all categories. Interesting premise, albeit popular and unoriginal, I still enjoy sci-fi bombs.. (this was just barely not a bomb.) There is enough to be intrigued, while acting is adequate at best. And take note of the digital graphics: while low level, still fun to observe. It's so funny, because I restarted Mass Effect: Andromeda (PS4) the night before I watched this film. Very similar stuff (including art...) except that Mass Effect had more than 89 minutes and a larger budget to execute something expansive and filled out. If I'm not mistaken - I saw Andromeda 2 may be in the works. If they get another chance, let us hope for a bigger budget.

Compulsory viewing for film students! So that they can see how not to make a movie. I feel sorry for whoever made this, but they should really watch a few more movies before making their own, and you know, take some notes? To be fair, I could not watch more than the first 15 minutes of this, and hey, perhaps it morphed into the best movie ever made! But I will never know because 15 mins was more than I could stomach.

From what I saw they probably made every mistake possible, because lord knows I saw enough in that 15 minutes. They took the sage advice "Show don't tell" and made it a bad thing, by telling (a voiceover) and showing visuals of what the voiceover was describing. And I could go on, but I will leave it there. If you have not seen it, leave it there too!

This is not the worst film ever, but it is let down by a low budget which comes across very early on and stays with it throughout. The CGI is very obvious and dated. Acting is wooden and the flow is pretty staccato in places. Props are even worse.

The story itself is quite compelling and you tend to stay with it. Given that this was probably also affected by the writers strike and the various problems over the pond it is not a bad effort. That Amazon has it on Prime is a good excuse to watch it.

Not everything is Star Wars quality filming. And that is the issue. Audiences have come to expect better CGI, better CSO and better writing. Give this a chance. There are a LOT worse that are out there!

Have you ever had a really cheap, really well done steak? And maybe you had some powdered mash potatoes and freezer burnt veggies? It's like... still a meal... that could've been OK, but it just doesn't work out.

Much like the meal above this movie just didn't work out. There's this weird "rich kid who has it all with a drug problem" angle which take up 75% of the movie. The other 25% of the is a lot of negotiations and aliens talking in alien.

Your 10 year old might find it interesting and you can use it as a way to show them just how bad drugs are, as the main character slowly becomes, well, consumed.

Anyways, watch it, don't watch it. It's a good background movie. Like if Hallmark did Sci-fi.