Reboot (2012)

A young female hacker awakens from a traumatic event that she scarcely remembers, and an iPhone glued to her hand. On the phone, a countdown is ticking away to zero. What happens at zero? ... See full summary »

Director:

Joe Kawasaki

Writer:

Joe Kawasaki

Stars:

Emily Somers, Travis Aaron Wade, Martin Copping

Cast

Cast overview:
Emily Somers	...	Stat
Travis Aaron Wade	...	Jesse
Martin Copping	...	Bren
Sonalii Castillo	...	Eva
Janna Bossier	...	Krystal
Troy Vincent	...	Dean
Charlie Weirauch	...	Restaurant Manager
Traci Elizabeth	...	Waitress (as Traci Moslenko)
Justin M. Via	...	Patron at Restaurant

Storyline

A young female hacker awakens from a traumatic event that she scarcely remembers, and an iPhone glued to her hand. On the phone, a countdown is ticking away to zero. What happens at zero? Who is she, and why has she become an extension of the device? As the minutes tick away, our heroine must race against time to put the pieces together before the mysterious, pending zero-hour strikes.

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Plot Keywords:

iphone | hacker | bound and gagged | gun | facial bruise | 

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Taglines:

Your world is about to be reset.

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Genres:

Short | Drama | Thriller

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User Reviews

An interesting short film with very good acting

I watched this with an open mind not worrying about the low rating so far on IMDb and I was pleasantly surprised. The acting and quality camera work were very well done and were not diminish by a story that had a good premise but was missing some elements of information. And unfortunately the final song to start the end of the movie was horrible. But the beauty of a well done short movie is it leaves a lot more to the imagination of the audience. The short is one of the hardest movies to make now and this movie was fast paced with intelligent thought and decent dialog.

I see about 70 to 80 new movies (new to me) every year but only write a few reviews as I believe a decent review should be well written and the reviewer should have a good sense of films, which takes some time I do not have. But I saw that the review on here was so poorly written without much thought or understanding of this film I felt it necessary to try an give a more realistic and open minded review. First, this film has nothing to do with nor any of its references directly taken from "Fight Club" as one reviewer suggested. If talking about how the cost of materialism has effected the world makes it a "Fight Club" reference then that's like saying any movie that talks about the south is is "Gone With The Wind" reference. In Fight Club one major theme was around materialism and how it controlled our life's, a theme at its pinnacle in 1999-2000 when Fight Club came out. This is 13 years later where we see the cost of having everything available everywhere, like Coffee which is very labor intensive as Jesse spoke of in the movie, is causing a huge divide between the classes of rich and poor and an incredible strain on the world's resources. That is a very real theme today that many people are aware of that goes beyond just the self indulgent life style of the past 20 years.

The movie tries to make radical 'change' Jesse's theme at a level that implies that hackers and coders do have much control over what goes on not just in the cyber world but in everyday affairs. The group Anonymous comes to mind, and not that I agree with their methods, but they are real and are having some effect, whether one sees it as good or bad.

Emily Somers (Stat) and Travis Aaron Wade (Jesse) both did an excellent job acting. One can notice for a short film how the expressions and feelings have to develop much quicker and they do in Reboot. I recommend you see this with an open mind and not be disappointed with an ending that leaves you thinking about whats next.

Details

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 July 2012 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Перезагрузка

Filming Locations:

Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$12,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jan-Ken-Po Pictures, Rosa Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

40 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1