One Under the Sun

20 April 2017. This movie begins with a rather different, special, and potentially great sci fi outer space low-budget movie with good editing and natural performances, except for a wooden, weak secret antagonist organization confronting a survivor from a trip to Mars. But it ends up to be a wrecked landing by the end of the movie because the script can't hold up its end of the bargain of a strong finish and collapses tiredly at the end in a spaced-out blur.

Don't believe the ratings on IMDb until they have had a few weeks to get the REAL ones. The bad movies in particular, routinely have fake reviewers, most likely involved in the movie making somehow. This movie was not good. Another horrible audio score that is incessant, and overbearing....too loud, and never ending. The acting was not natural...half the dialogue was forced...like the actors didn't remember how to be human once they got in front of the camera. Other than that, it's a good story, just not very well presented. I have always hated when a really good story gets ruined by bad film makers.

The three stars is generous.

This movie is so horribly produced, I don't even know where to begin. For starters, the cinematography looks like it was shot with an Iphone or 90's VHS camcorder. Poor composition and sound plague the movie from the start and it only gets worse. It is especially evident that little effort was expended on the production when the mic boom bobs into the lower portion of the frame during the scene where she initially wakes up in quarantine following her 'mysterious' survival of the spacecraft's return to Earth. As for the acting, it couldn't have been more unconvincing and disingenuous if the producers had picked random people off the street to portray the characters. In addition to the technical faults of this film, the story line and 'science' elements are poorly considered and show a complete lack of understanding of the actual science they are trying to convey. Overall, this 'film' is 1 hour and 41 minutes of mind-numbing absurdity. Unless you have 2 hours of your life that you would like to just toss away, don't waste your time on this atrocity. If I could give it a zero, I would.

Begin (15 minutes) is OK , even if actors' acting comes straight from B movie type. Then it gets a bit chaotic and certainly not any better acting wise. Semi technology. Would be "interesting" actors talking science stuff that is all very obvious fake, so called technology. For me a waste of time.

You cannot blame the writer for the movie being bad, but she contributed by writing a story that needed clarification at every step. Even the ending left the feeling that you wanted to read the original story because nothing was explained or resolved. Artsy films can leave you with different interpretation at the end but in this case it left without any interpretation. OK so much for the pretentious story but the director did not get any good acting from the actors….i guess they were as much in the dark as we were on where this movie was going. Some movies can do a lot with little budget but this movie did not even bother to conceal that it was working on a low budget; the creepy government figures using cell phones to discuss top secret info. The super secure facility that looked like a common office building, the shoddy camera angles….it all distracted from what was supposed to be a serious movie with a message from the stars. I tried to like the movie…I really did but the holes in the story, the poor acting and the low budget was too much to overlook.