Somnus (2017) Reviews

• A hit and a miss...

  geoff-596042016-10-23

  I wanted to enjoy this as the premise seemed so much like intelligent Sci-Fi. Performances where OK but the wandering story and pace just seemed to make it difficult to follow and really work out what was happening here. Some of the work with miniatures here looked pretty good but it doesn't make up for the confused story. Some of the flashbacks actually upset the pace for me and the clichéd bad computer didn't help. All a little obvious! Summary - some good filmmaking mixed up in some bad writing.

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• not Kubrick

  tellcall2016-10-06

  yes, i gave it a 3. Because it is the kind of movie i hate, but they (those who wrote the plot and ads) tricked me into watching it.. Oh, my. The story: there are 4 little pigs on a ship. They try to go to the market and..well, you can imagine the rest. There are so many slows, and stops, and things that looks like wannabe "2001 space Odyssey", but they are just heavy waiting times put there to achieve a couple of hours where it could last only 20 minutes. The voices remind me of a "star wars making" interview: at some point, people looking at Darth Vader and asking each other "really, is he really going to have *that* voice? (assuming the Scottish accent of the actor was an anti-climax). Well, here you got just that: the actors voices, making them look dumb whenever they were trying to look tragic. Half of the movie, i didn't understand. Sort of flashbacks from the pilot that lies sleeping nowhere, a co-pilot screaming like a little girl and then acting like Rambo I to IV all together, the mad computer that nobody can stop until a guy just pop open the impossible-to-open-door and kills it (yep, just like a snap.. why didn't they do that before everyone was killed?), the train thing at the beginning, and even a recycled stargate to signify the end of the world.. not to mention the flight instruments that came out of a 70's cargo plane rather than 23rd century cargo spaceship. With analog speedometers! (or something like that). I am not sure i'm being objective writing this. All i can say, i went to look a sci-fi sort of action movie, and ended up in some director's mental puzzle. And the "exciting ending" is nowhere, honestly.

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• sad for sf fans

  darrenedwards2016-10-07

  i have never gone out of my way before this ,so here i go rubbish,,,?I love SF in all it's forms ,,,,but this has to be the worst yet ,,for this age we live in how does any body put $$$$ into this ??? i am so angry at the fact that i watched this rubbish ,,i hope the writer/director never get a chance to do this to us again,,,the story is broken at best,with reflection going back to 2001 space odyssey with Hal is made into a female,,the captains sleep helmet some sort of boring dream time (lol),,, ,the creature looks like a gremlin ,the set around the eighties the direction is poor,so i don't blame the actors. i really looked for some think nice to say ,,sooo the 1950's train engine is cool. Cheers to all SF lovers who what to believe like me Darren E

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• Don't go by the box art - this is not Interstellar!

  tommakesmusic2017-02-10

  I bought this film on DVD and feel that the independent film on the disc was badly served by the artwork on the box. It isn't a blockbuster, and, really, it doesn't try to be. This is an old fashioned sci-fi film that tries to play for tension and atmosphere rather than thrills and explosions. In reality, I'm not sure it always achieves this, but it is a good, honest, attempt at it! There are some notable performances - especially Mac McDonald, who is as good as you would expect, and there is an inspired choice of location for the ship-board shots, but, ultimately, I think it fails to make the most of the "story" and there is an uncomfortable shift of gears from ship location to the other location. Watch this as an independent, low-budget sci-fi made in an old-fashioned style, and you won't be far away from the director's intentions. Believe the box art and posters and you'll be disappointed.

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• Tedious. Painfully pointlessly tedious.

  greenber-147-5746232016-10-16

  Well, that's 1:22 that I just wasted. Half-way through I realized that it was too deep for me. A bunch of derelict-type space-trash are on some type of a mission that get sidetracked to an old forgotten colony that is wonderfully verdant – except for some all the residents (perhaps the offspring of the original settlers? It was at this point that I decided that I simply did not care) I'm sure that the movie will appeal to some. Just not to me. I've been blamed as being too shallow to appreciate fine art. It could be. I just do not think that this movie is an example of fine art.

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