LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Thehibikiew Not even bad in a good way

GazerRise Fantastic!

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

poustinik Another dystopian future, in which corrupt privatized police snoop everywhere and surveillance is universal. But a series of murders begin in which the surveillance technology doesn't work; the murderer/s don't seem to be human. The main character's most emotional relationship is with a holo-video of his departed wife. The intended effect seems to be Dickian (as in Philip K. Dick) paranoid moodiness, intensified by many of the scenes taking place through set surveillance cams; this certainly saved a lot of money by enabling stock shots to be used over and over again and gave the production a "techno" feel which can get a bit wearying, not unlike techno music. That being said, the whole is a competent student effort--very derivative, like all student efforts, but I would like to see more from these people.

twaj201 Sometimes a student film really reaches out and grabs you. The Clerks is probably the most famous; Cube is the only such sci-fi movie I can think of. This movie really fails in many different ways. Although the two main actors are OK, the over-use of bad special effects is grating.Every several minutes the movie shows the same 6 or 7 still pictures of factories that look like the cover of Pink Floyd albums. One gets the impression that the director got really excited reading a book about semiotics in film and wanted to inject some warmed over Tarkovsky to make up for the lack of interesting, futuristic scenes.Indy films are supposed to be about crazy maverick stuff, but the corporate dystopia theme is poorly rehashed in this movie. The theme of a mismanaged, corrupt private police force was first explored in Verhoven's Robocop. Much of the silly dialogue in Pandora Machine is designed to re-enforce the impression that greedy corporations would run a dedicated police force into the ground; there's this painful scene where a woman at the police station is giving a performance review in which she criticizes the protagonists for their cost over-runs. You feel like telling the movie, 'ok, we get it, big business is evil,' but it never lets up.My girlfriend thought the acting was so bad that she called it 'a porn movie without the porn.' There's one rather erotic scene where a programmed woman rides the main character, but she looks to be in her late 20's or older. There is way too little erotica to vindicate this film's abysmal dialogue and painful-to-watch Commodore 64 graphics. I could only watch about 20 minutes at a time and eventually gave up on it after an hour.

donbasco This movie is so low budget that it is not worth watching. The story is very weak and makes no sense, it could have been told in 20 minutes. So the other 50 minutes are a waste of celluloid. The director tries to aim for an art film, but this is over done, and becomes annoying.The scenes that show the security cameras are a disturbance and repeated too much. The acting is horrible and makes no sense.Normally i'm not so hard in my judgment but this movie doesn't deserve anything else but a bad review, In other words don't watch this movie.But hey if you like Sci-Fi, bad acting, bad directing, a bad storyline, and bad movies, then you must watch this movie

ostynew This is an independent release with a script that highlights how real creativity is often missing from summer blockbusters. First it tells a good story. But after it was over I found myself thinking about what it means to be sentient and morality in an immoral world.Excellent acting, especially since I can't find any other credits for the actors. The sets and special effects work well enough that I seldom noticed the corners cut to save money.A cop is trying to cope with his profit driven police force. He & his new partner are assigned to find an assassin who has evaded all high-tech security measures. Even the all-seeing surveillance cameras have no record of the killer's movements.7 out of 10 and a sincere hope everyone involved makes more movies.