Einstein's God Model

Although full of sub par acting Einstein's God Model addresses the question of what happens after we die in a way I have never seen before. Its use of complex ideas such as String theory, M-theory and the God Model made this a fascinating watch. This film puts these complex ideas into words everyone can understand and does a great job of keeping you on your toes. It will definitely make you think!

An enjoyable indie ride with some interesting ideas about quantum physics and reality. Gets points for not dumbing down the science. Yes of course it feels indie and low budget in some places, but that's because it is indie and low budget. This should be kept in perspective when rating.

No idea how it ended up on my watch list. Gave it a chance. Honestly it's neither a bad film nor a good film.

Thanks to modern digital production techniques, low budget films look almost as good as big budget. You have to really know lighting to get that last 5%. But where it really shows up is in the acting. Not so much that major films have better actors. Rather they have more time budgeted to get multiple takes and coverage angles for different scenes.

Low budget films like this have a lot of obvious flat acting and poorly blocked scenes. Stuff that could have been ironed out with more takes and a slightly relaxed shooting schedule.

I enjoyed the general story. It's got a little quantum terminology nonsense. But not any more than your standard MCU film. Unless you spend a lot of time keeping up with advances in science (as I do) you may not even notice the nonsense aspect.

The actual storytelling isn't too bad. It does the job. What it did not do was hold my attention. I found myself spacing out and checking my email. Probably missed a few key moments, making it harder to follow. That is partially my fault. But a good scifi movie or TV show should be able to hold the attention.

Supposedly this is part of a series of quasi educational films. Not sure if any others got made. But this one did not do a good job of explaining quantum mechanics, DeSitter spaces or particile physics. While they did use terminology from Quantum mechanics, it was all layered in with a bunch of other plot nonsense in such a way that it's hard to tell where the dividing line between fact and fiction lies. I suppose it could be intended to spur interest in the field. (No pun intended, but I'll take it.) My main complaint in this regard is the way that it not only misuses the prevailing theory on the many worlds hypothesis. But uses a really, really bad CGI graphic to represent it. When I say bad I don't mean rendering. I mean in terms of representation.

The preceding model using slices of bread was moving in the right direction. The rendered version was just a badly realized literal size up of the bread model.

They really should have had a physicist consult on this film.

Very well done for the budget.

PROs: Very original premise and sticks with you longer after the credits have rolled. Beautiful special effects - honestly much better than the rest of the production.

CONS: Some clever humor, but also some very clunky science exposition. Cinematography wildily uneven - at times gorgeous and at times very amateur. Performances were pretty rough in spots. Better casting would have helped.

All in all, this gets an A for effort and a B- for execution. If you like science, especially theoretical physics, you won't be disappointed! Also, LOVE the Chicago shots!

The premise attracted me to the movie, and kept me watching despite it's many issues. I tried to set aside the poor acting and dialog in hopes that the plot would develop into something more substantial - but it never did. The story line was thin with the same canned character types you have seen countless times before. As with all too many Sci- Fis, a clever concept was wasted and leaves you wondering what could have been done with it under different circumstances. As far as the production - it mostly had an amateurish feel. There appeared to be issues with the sound editing. That could possibly have been related to the streaming version I viewed. But I noticed several instances where the dialog seemed to be spliced together from different takes causing it to vary in volume from line to line. On the positive side, the special effects and imagery were executed fairly well considering the low production budget.