More standard horror flick, if elegantly presented, than the thoughtful science fiction drama it thinks it is. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m a big science fiction geek
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
And here we have a familiar story. Oh, not the fact that Closer to God is a modern updating of Frankenstein, swapping out reanimation of the dead for cloning: that is done rather cleverly. No, it’s the familiar story of many indie science-fiction dramas: they’ve got potentially intriguing ideas but don’t know what to do with them, and so what could have been an effective and eerie short film becomes a too-long — and this one is only 80 minutes! — feature that only hints at possibilities that seem deliberately left unexplored. Developing truly SFnal concepts and bringing them to a satisfying conclusion is hard, true,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
And here we have a familiar story. Oh, not the fact that Closer to God is a modern updating of Frankenstein, swapping out reanimation of the dead for cloning: that is done rather cleverly. No, it’s the familiar story of many indie science-fiction dramas: they’ve got potentially intriguing ideas but don’t know what to do with them, and so what could have been an effective and eerie short film becomes a too-long — and this one is only 80 minutes! — feature that only hints at possibilities that seem deliberately left unexplored. Developing truly SFnal concepts and bringing them to a satisfying conclusion is hard, true,...
- 7/3/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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