In Isolation

This is the kind of film which really frustrates and annoys. It's not just that the characters do stupid things, much as we see in a great many films. No, it's that it appears these characters are deliberately doing stupid things, that's how it looks.

The overdubbing is bad enough, every line is uttered with a complete lack of any kind of human emotion, but to then add in the utterly stupid decisions made by the cast, elevates this film to a new realm of frustration.

This is an awful film, do not watch.

I'm 80 odd characters short of being able to publish this, so i'm writing anything to get this over the line.

Done. Avoid this film.

This movie deserves one star out of ten but I gave it another star because the effects and fight scenes arrms good. The acting is good but the dialog and the overall story is poorly written. Such a waste of time and money producing this piece of trash. Using a flashlight on a daylight. The title doesn't even belong in this movie. The movie tried so hard to connect the quarantine, the virus and the fear of people being isolated to why it is happening to the main character. So many useless character in this movie. Stupid character flaws that even stupid people can see they are being stupid. The plot has so many holes and they overused scary music effects. The main character is useless too.

Personally, I'll choose subtitles over dubbing every time. I adore the westerns directed by Sergio Leone, which are now over half a century old. Somehow, the dubbing for the dialogue in those films is more competent than this recently produced current day film. The simulated interaural intensity (loudness and frequency) and interaural time difference (arrival time) experienced when receiving audio stimuli with both ears is way off for this movie, especially the dialogue.

It's obvious the actors are delivering lines to a stationary microphone. Your eyes tell you the characters are moving around in their environment, but your ears tell you they haven't moved. Also, the intensity (perceived loudness) and direction of the dialogue doesn't change with camera positioning (editing) or voice projection in relation to the actors and the camera (turning away from the camera). It's really disorienting and distracting. The sound mixing and audio post production is woefully incompetent. All the dialogue was mixed to be mono, with only a few exceptions of stereo sound being used. Which means they didn't even try in post.

I know I haven't even covered any other aspect of the film is this review, besides the dialogue audio. That's because, this isn't an issue most films have, even low budget productions. I made it just over 20 minutes into the run-time before I stopped watching. Something very unbelievable happens just after the 20 minute mark, and no one in the scene reacts like a human being. Everything about the scene indicates utter incompetence, from the writing, directing, acting, audio, etcetera. That's when this movie confirmed that its issues went far beyond ADR dialogue, and it was only going to get worse.

Usually, I wouldn't score and review a movie I haven't watched to the end. Since this movie currently has no reviews on the site, I felt obligated to inform others about their potential wasted investment of time if they decide to watch it.

Lot of reviewers complaining about the terrible dubbing. Turn the sound down, and try not to look at the actors (if they were actors) mouths too much. As for the rest of the movie, it isn't the worst movie in my worst movie list. I liked the premise of the story, society breaking down amidst a deadly virus. Covid? Although it isn't specified, but you know, why not. People were being affected by the isolation. As well as this you have the main character, and the one I mainly rooted for, suffering from a phobia. The action sequences were done well, and I think the cinematography was fine for a low budget film. Definitely low budget,because I didn't know any of the actors or director. But,hey,it was a good time filler,and gets an average score from me for effort.

If Hallmark decided to make action/thriller movies: It would look better than this.

I found the poor sound quality very annoying from the first sentences on. It obviously didn't get better. Maybe if I had watched the movie with headphones I would get a better audio, but as it was, it was a complete turn off.

The cinematography was really weak too. Add to it poor scenery.

The story was not even slightly interesting plus meaningless dialogues on top. You'll spend the whole story screaming at the movie about how no adult would talk or act like that.

All in all a waste of time. I didn't have high expectations, but I think you can create a better movie than this with little resources.