Saturday, 30 May 2020

VOD: 2036 Origin Unknown (dir: Hasraf Dulull, 2018)

"You will have many questions for me."

...or Katee Sackhoff In A Room And A Corridor.  Ambitious way, way beyond its means, and unfortunately drawing upon the monumental 2001: A Space Odyssey as its main source of inspiration, the film tries to deliver big ideas and events about AI, space travel and mysterious monoliths, sorry, cubes, that largely occur off-screen or on monitors with mid-to-low-end CG effects and an astonishing lack of people involved on-screen for such global and cataclysmic events.  The ever-wonderful Katee Sackhoff tries her hardest to wring anything out of the meagre script, but even then the lengthy 'dramatic' pauses and repetitions kill any sense of urgency or energy in a film that consistently underwhelms.

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