Eternal Code

This is a low budget film but I don't give extra or less marks based on this I try and judge every film within the same criteria.

The premise is fairly simple revolving around a mega pharma corp, a woman with a conscience who needs to be silenced and 2 unlikely heroes.

Overall the premise is fine, nothing new and pretty generic for this type of thriller. I guess the selling point is the 2 unlikely heroes of a homeless guy and a prostitute.

Cool concept, sure, convoluted, absolutely.

It does however in a strange way pass if you don't think about it too much.

The photography is decent enough and captures that sterile corporate sci fi setting switching to more real gritty texture " On the streets ".

This is where it gets jarring and falls down, the acting is all over the place. Some of the wooden acting passes as it suits the environment i.e wooden scientist.

If this followed through consistently it would have worked, however the performances cross from wooden acting to over acting to strange character acting which is often at the wrong times, this becomes jarring and uncomfortable to watch.

I know its low budget but this is where some can make it work and others try to achieve too much under the limitations.

There is also a plethora of different characters that are pointless and unnecessary, This takes away the focus from the " better characters ".

There is a few times when it feels like it's coming together but then, bosh it Jarrs you out of it all.

So we end up with a pretty generic plot with a slight hero twist with average to god awful acting, Good cinematography on the whole but with Jarring and convoluted moments.

You can't make a low budget blockbuster all the bells and whistles type film without it looking weak.

Ive seen many brilliant Indy low budget films and the brilliance tends to be in the simplicity of which this is the antithesis to that concept

4/10 I'd pass unless you want to check out a low budget film because its a low budget film.

This is simply terrible. 5 minutes of viewing will tell you that. I'm 45 minutes in and its a miracle I've lasted this long. The script is terrible, the acting is shocking, the plot although a great subject matter has been poorly executed.

Right from the get go the acting is bad. The evil board director has terrible lines and no delivery. The music is like elevator music on tranquilizers. They try to sync the music with the action and it becomes distracting overkill. For example, the "good girls" doing something for the suicidal dude. The music was so bad I thought it was a commercial. Oh and the bad girl keeps showing up with a coffee for him for saving her life? The plot is so thin you can see the B movie VPL. Speaking of the suicidal dude, who is he? A hero, a main character? He keeps showing up being the lovable loser who secretly does good, but his character is like a wet brown paper bag on the sidewalk. How this is a 7.2 rating is beyond me. I stopped watching at 20 minutes. I am starting to question the integrity of IMBD

Notice for every bad review it's a generic bot 10/10? These ratings are so misleading.

The movie's story line was quite catchy. That is why I started watching this. But the execution was too poor and acting was not a bit praiseworthy. It's not about the budget! I saw a lot of low budget movies those became masterpiece for it's making, camera work and obviously direction. For example, all time hit '12 Angry Men' is a movie where in a single room the whole movie was captured. Definitely a low budget movie, but in appeal it crossed the borders of decades. Not by any means this movie 'Eternal Code' can get 3.0+ rating. I gave 3.0 just because of its story only. Nothing else.