Director: Timo Vuorensola
Year: 2025
Country: Canada
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
Plot:
In an alternate present where genetic enhancements have become the norm, those who cannot take advantage are pushed into the underground. It’s up to a few brave souls to level the playing field for everyone, but every revolution has its cost.
Review:
This was a wholly disappointing and not that enjoyable feature. The most distressing part about this one is that the central premise here holds promise about what could’ve been an intriguing enough feature had the premise been given much room to breathe. The concept of highly intelligent and superhuman-enhanced people that take their upgrades to the point of being able to overthrow the rest of society and force them underground into a potential revolution when they have to come back to overthrow this kind of society serves this well to present a potentially intriguing storyline. This setup, though, turns into a mindless series of cliches and wholly unimportant interactions that meander around without much in the way of connecting everything with the lacking series of connecting storylines. This leaves the film to feel sluggish and dragging more often than anything, as the lack of a connecting story beyond just wanting a rebellion, which is the main storyline throughout.
Since there’s not much of an interesting story on display, that leaves a lot of the action here to pick up the slack, but even that isn’t all that interesting here. The main focus on the philosophical nature of being a human makes for a troubling time, with the film more prone to lengthy argumentative battles about the fate of humanity than it is more intriguing than anything else, rendering the story intriguing but keeping the action down more than anything, as the lack of action with something that could’ve been done quite easily. It looks impressive with its design as the whole thing takes on a grimy dystopian society where the different aesthetics and visuals from the different classes at work here, especially in the society's home, where their power-generating flower is kept, but it’s all mostly undone by the lousy action and underwhelming story for what’s on display doom this more than anything else.
Overview: */5
A general disappointment in most regards, there’s not much to enjoy here with a highly problematic approach, bland pacing, and overall poor presentation overwhelming most attempts at a positive element. Those with an appreciation or interest in this kind of story will have the most reason to see it, but most others out there should outright avoid this one.
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