When the Universe decides what it wants, it's pointless to resist. With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test subject of a maniacal scientist in a battle that could save the world, or destroy it. OK you might watch this show and not be impressed but trust me when I say stick with it and you wont be sorry. The movie was incredible. Why? I watched this film with no expectations at all, didn't know what it was about, and really didn't care. The buildup is somewhat cheesy but well-done familiar territory, and I was sympathetic to or angry with most of the characters by mid-film. So I was getting emotionally involved, and it didn't hurt that logic didn't suffer too much, even if motivations and dynamics were over-the-top. Then it hit me what was going on, the building of a superhero, so to speak. As if the film understood when I was supposed to get this, it revved up immediately and kept me entranced with its continuous upward arc of lights and sound. Yes, the effects were olden-daze, but I kept saying to myself, "Nice work with a low budget!" After all, who cares if its retro if it's GOOD, right? This ramp-up continued to make me smile until the fine crescendo, and all the implausible yet necessary events collided to make this a mix of Armageddon and Silver Surfer! <br/><br/>What hit me is that they told a story simply, without having to appeal to comic fanboys with cute or snarky dialogue, or "correct" characterizations. If the complaint is how many coincidences and untested theories have to be withstood in order to accept the premise, how is that different than Hulk or Spider-Man transformations, or Stryker creating Wolverine's adamantium skeleton? Not at all, if you ask me. So the film also stands on its own as a genre film that has no previous background (of which I'm aware).<br/><br/>Strangely, while writing this review, I discovered that director Matthew Charles Santoro worked on, among other things, the VFX for Marvel's Silver Surfer movie! So that makes sense! Woohoo! I was right!
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