Cosmic Contact

An unconfident college dweeb creates a computer device with the aid of his cousins help and a mathamatition girl that sends images back to them using the universes radiation. At first, they reach the moon, then Mars. They then want to see just how far the machine can reach and end up receiving a signal from the other side of the known universe, which they get a lot more than they bargained for.

This movie has a strong start, a decent middle, but a bad ending. I guess it came down to budget restraints, but this film could have been so much better than it was, had the ending not ruined the ride.

Even as a pilot concept to branch into a TV series would've been a great premise, but what happens in this movies anticlimactic finale seems like a low-budget rush job just to get the movie finished on time.

It's a shame it had to end the way it does. It had a lot of potential and could have set up some very interesting ideas for a sequel or TV show, but instead it just plummets off a cliff with bad acting, low budget dialogue instead of visual representations, and a feel of "just get it over and done with"

Although this is a low budget movie I liked the plot and was willing to give it a go. Three students meet up on this adventure:- One is the geek that makes the machine, one is the girl who is the good mathematician and the other is the normal guy. The three of them are excited about their discovery and go deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole. Initially the acting of the three main actors come over as amateurish, which almost stopped me watching the movie. But then I got myself a beer and started to enjoy the movie more. It has the usual men in black turning up later which didn't really add to the plot. However, I reached the end and was glad to have watched this movie.

I'll try to be honest and short here - it's another Primer wannabe movie, great idea and a very mediocre execution with total lack of technical detail thru the movie itself. Also, can anyone here explain me the one thing please - is it a nowadays trend with hysterical characters not capable of logic and proper reactions anymore? I remember the nearly same rant about Prometheus characters acting like hysterical amateurs and the proper crew in original Alien movie. Anyway, as i've previously mentioned the core idea behind the movie is great, and with a proper execution it can be a very nice top notch scifi movie, so don't take my prejudices too serious (because its just another someone's opinion on the internet) and watch that one for yourself.

The film fails on most levels. An obsessive 'techie' driven by an idea which actually works, eventually. This is already a feeble "What if ..." to justify what could have been a good starting point.

Unfortunately, the plot fails to live up to the original premise. Worse, the characters end up explaining the gaps in the plot to each other, since the production is unable to do so.

The next refuge is the 'shot in a cupboard' environment. The producer obviously thought "We don't need much in the way of expensive special effects if nobody can see the environment anyway". The remaining need for special effects is just tacked-on and would have looked cheap ten years before it was actually produced.

Finally (no spoiler), the end is almost embarrassingly predictable. A real 'B' Movie.

7 August 2016. Shadows on the Wall is a difficult ratings choice because its low budget appearance and some of the slow pacing make this movie rather hard to continue watching especially at the beginning. The climax of the movie isn't anything spectacular in its originality and yet the building up, the mystery, the eventual tension, and the relative consistency of tone and performances somehow keep this movie from being just average or ordinary. In short, this low budget sci fi movie isn't really bad, isn't really just average and except for perhaps the man in a black suit who seems pretty one dimensional, overall becomes a decent and credible sci fi motion picture. Its attempt to capture the sci fi tone and exhilaration of the genre actually succeeds, even if isn't completely grand in its depiction like Interstellar (2014) or Inception (2010).