Arcadia

The story is great and pretty unique. The acting is good. It's a little low budget but all the elements are there. I really liked it.

The concept behind the movie is one that's been done many times. It's easy to make it interesting and exciting. And yet this movie still failed. The characters and setting is flat and underdeveloped. And the ending is just... bad.

The biggest problem is the first hour or so is just bland and boring. We get a brief introduction to the main character and one person he cares about for a couple minutes and then it skips ahead six years and we're left to figure out what happened on our own through clues. Basically the whole movie relies on the idea that you already know and care about these characters and their situation... except you don't. And they aren't interesting. The only interesting characters are side characters... and they aren't that interesting either.

But I digress. After an hour of nothing really, the movie picks up a little. But then we have these two major events happen that could lead to some interesting things. At the very least we should get a glimpse of what happens after to the main character and society. But we don't. We get a very confusing scene of a woman watering plants for about a minute and it's over. There's no conclusion. It feels like the end of the first episode to a series where there is supposed to be so much more and this was just the introduction. Except it's not. It's a movie. And there should be more.

Basically, it feels like they just ran out of actors and money and time and ... everything? So they just shot this and decided that was good enough to put out.

The concept isn't bad. But unless you like sitting for a hour of boredom before getting somewhere and then not even getting an ending, it's not worth it. I'd probably be giving it one star except I'm a bit of a sucker for the concept and I did manage to watch the whole thing... But it's not good. Wasted potential.

This rather dreary little film is certainly among the very lowest budget films that I have ever seen in my long life. It tries hard, but there is very little, if anything, about this that is surprising. It's about a disease that has taken over the world, but the story is more about the haves and the have-nots. The "haves" live in a fortress where they live for up to 130 years and the 'have-nots", who live in the outside world, only live until about forty years of age. There are lotteries that require people on the outside to do various tasks to score points and when they reach that point, they can enter the fortress and live longer lives. If you cannot predict the outcome for these people playing along with this lottery, you have not seen many movies. The only compliment I can come up with for this film is the credible performance given by the lead, Marc Baylis. However, he is not enough reason to watch this.

People who view this as fiction are drinking fluoridated H2O & are sedated into believing that everything is fine! Wakeup....either pay attention & learn something or simply enjoy an entertaining film. Similar scenarios are already happening & depicted here in a well written script. If you don't believe at least know that this film is fascinating & fun to view! I really enjoyed watching this movie but it scared me as well!

The sound in this movie threatened to blow my TV speakers in a bad way.

The phone rang in the background for three straight minutes.

The awful bass noises and weird sounds are constant, they don't stop. There is so much annoying noise in this film, it completely destroys the suspense.

The director should be forced to wear headphones playing the noise on loop for a day. Also, their sub woofers should be smashed so they are not tempted to make this mistake again. I am unable to finish this movie because the sound will not stop and I hate it.

This is the first movie that I have ever reviewed, I feel the need to warn you, please avoid this movie and the pain it will bring your brain.