My quick rating - 4,0/10. I have had my eyes on this flick for a couple of years and it finally was released. Not sure what the hold-up was but time to find out if it was worth it. I would say it wasn't worth it due to plenty of missed opportunities. The atmosphere that was created was creepy enough and claustrophobic at times. The story itself was very unrealized though. It seemed to start with a woman (Anna Hopkins) who is working in a lab looking for a cure for a plague that is wiping out humanity. But then takes a strange turn and for reasons unknown, she is taken prisoner and placed in some pod by someone for questionable reasons. The filmmakers try to explain this away with flashbacks but it ends up quite a cluttered mess of ideas. The budget limits how the flick looks which didn't help the weak story at all. The captors are strange robot types that bring in more questions than the climax gives answers for. In the end, I was more asking if I just witnessed a strange scifi love story more than any form of horror or thriller. That is just how confused this movie was and is by far the biggest downfall. For the most part, the acting falls into a one-woman show since the others were more either voices in other pods or flashbacks attempting to make sense of the whole thing. For that, Hopkins did fine she just wasn't given enough to work with. After a couple of years from when I read about it, I surely was expecting better but just ended up with a lot of potential going nowhere.
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