Einstein's God Model

This indie film is just plain fun. Sure, it's amateurish, but...

It mentions some real ideas in physics (past and present) -- GUF theory; quantum theory; string theory; membranes; etc.

It includes some actual history about Thomas Edison.

It names some real physicists -- Einstein (obviously), Tesla, Bohr, etc. (check out the opening credits!)

The props (early electronic devices) look authentic.

One of the writers seems to have a medical background -- some nice details.

Given the film's limited budget, the special effects are pretty good.

The acting is good enough to carry the plot.

I would compare this movie favorably to the first "Flatliners" film (I haven't seen the recent remake).

Watch it and judge for yourself.

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.

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.

Objectively the aggregate score for this film, based in the it's amateur-ish at best execution, should be no higher then a 4 but I'mma be nice and give it 5 because it does at least name drop some legitimate science even if it doesn't necessarily use said science in a legitimate fashion. If you stick with the film past the horrendous 1st act you will be rewarded with a slightly better and at least commendably less embarrassing conclusion.

Whether one believes in the afterlife or not, this sci-fi film will get you to wonder.... Surrender your convictions to enjoy this eerily entertaining movie