Mark's Secret to Eternal Life

It is hard to find the adjective and nouns to explain how this movie left me. If I call it Sci-Fi, I would be wrong. Similarly, if I pegged it Horror, Drama, Mystery or any other genre, I would be wrong.

This is a movie that slowly creeps up on you. Until you realize, as Mark's character did, that you are in too deep and there is nowhere to go.

There are a few things to say: the acting by the two principals was mesmerizing, the director molded each character, each scene with a clarity one rarely sees, not even in the most ambitious independent projects.

Here the storytelling was the central core, and it was told well. Set aside any observations over any of the special effects, they were far and away the least important aspect of the story.

It was a story with so many layers, all within a simple premise of achieving eternal life. I challenge anyone to find a similar movie. Anywhere. That was told this well.

I won't delve into the story, because that would ruin the entire experience. Suffice it to say, that I highly recommend it to anyone who is searching for a film that will leave you thinking about all of the layers this very director/writer has created.

Give it about 15 minutes before you give up on it.

And yes, it's very indie. Only saying, because people show up on sites like this and criticize a picture like this like it has, quite literally, a fifty million dollar higher budget.

The two leads are pretty good here, and they have great chemistry. For a near feature length, I think I think they are fabulous.

There are aspects I don't fully understand, some semi- nude (but not personal) bodies I could live without, but nothing graphic, so no biggie.

Look at the User ratings link. Notice all the 10 star ratings to balance out the number of 1 star ratings? Yeah, the reviews and ratings have been astroturfed :( Which always indicates a particularly horrid movie and it plays true to form in this movie.

The acting is high school level at **best** and after 30 minutes you will realize that Marks secret to eternal life is watching this disaster of a movie because it will seem to go on forever (Spoiler Alert). Thirty minutes of this trash was all I could take. The film Director needs to be strapped to a chair with his eyelids forced open a la A Clockwork Orange and force to watch this crapshow on infinite repeat until he breaks down and recants his is bad career choices and promises to go back to his Walmart greeter job for the rest of his life.