Beyond, The

I stopped watching this last night and finished it tonight. Last night, on pause I was thinking: "I wish they hadn't called the thing 'The Void', but rather 'The Aleph' after Borges short story." I don't know why that thought crossed my mind. It certainly wasn't a void, though probably not an aleph either. Nevertheless that thought prompted me to re-read The Aleph, so if nothing else, this movie benefited me in that way... I have to say I got a little tired of the documentary style and about a third of the way in, I decided I could skip about 20 minutes; really at a certain point you want them to stop asking all their somewhat inane questions and just get on with the answers. The brain transplant plot twist was really unnecessary too. It was so ridiculously un-credible that it pops the balloon of credibility you might have for the rest of the story,... but okay, it's not like Robocop didn't have similar credibility issues... - but at least Robocop was a comic book stereotype that isn't supposed to be 'real'; alas I drift, like an astronaut cut loose from his tether... Like I said, I finished it tonight. I think they should have ended it when the black objects did their job... The rest of it, like having sis show up at the end, well, I don't know... I think having a sister hanging around that close might throw things a-kilter a little, gravitationally speaking...

A lot of logical errors that should have been avoided. For example, the writer uses the premise of separating the brain from the body to explore all the reasons why someone would want that such as paralysis and cancer. However, no selection process would ever choose such candidates. The paralyzed person would have so much atrophy of their neural network that they would not be preferable. Similarly, who would want to risk an entire planet's future on a cancer patient having a localized, non-metathesized cancer -- or multiple cancers? Then, it makes absolutely no sense that they can protect the brain any better than the rest of the body. It would have been better to imagine some kind of data transfer to a full robot. Also, if they are able to divorce the brain and body, should they really limit the form of the robot body to a humanoid? They make the argument that they want aliens to see a reasonable facsimile, but I think a completely different form would eliminate confusion, and furthermore, isn't that what the GAD was for? Next, the scientist likens the human 2.0 without a brain like a computer without a hard drive. Nowhere near correct. The brain would also include the processing chips, RAM memory, etc.

Watch this when you are not in a hurry. Love the premise. Love the message. GREAT visuals, writing and acting. I even like the documentary format. What I did not like is the sloooow build up. Like we could not have moved along the prep work. I was fine w all the paranoia. Some of the sets were so-so esp the military stuff. The mission itself was very brief. but the resolution was very good. It just took a long time to get there. A little less on the prep. A lot more on the mission and the same ending would have been better. Still worth a watch. Dialogue etc was very well done.

This is a stupid person's smart movie. There's so much mundane detail that's explicitly spelled out, like how the human 2.0 body makes breathing motions, but doesn't make a difference at all because we never see the bodies even walk around. On the other hand there are monumentally important events that get completely glossed over. Where did the space debris come from? A moon blew up on the other side of the wormhole created by the aliens, the fragments went through the wormhole to crash into Earth but were stopped by the black sphere goo by the same aliens? This is a cycle they go through? Huh?? Is that what happened??Is the cycle blowing up the planet or saving the planet? Is it creating a duplicate solar system within the solar system? Is the duplicate solar system physically right next to ours or is it through the wormhole? Is the new Earth literally right next to our Earth? This movie is so stupid.The characters are barely there and what is there is annoying. The space agency head lady introduced her daughter as 'really smart, just like her mom'. Wow lady, what a compliment. The military guy just wished he was in a war movie the whole time.The Janet 2.0 lady was just a total waste of time. She says at first that there's no way she would volunteer for this mission, then when she's needed she practically begs to go, then we follow her saying goodbye to all her friends but shes best friends with the head lady's daughter for some reason? Is that girl the director's girlfriend or something? Anyway, all that time with her doesn't matter at all because she gets put into the robot and then they don't even use her voice! I mean LOL who wrote this?? So she takes her robo voice with a nameless soldier 2.0 that disappears completely, like he's never even on camera at all, and Janet 2.0 is in a freaking coma for the rest of the movie. SO STUPID.They got me with the premise, I was interested enough to have this on as a background movie, but then the ending happened and just, wow. Waste of time.

Done in a documentary style (though to be honest, it didn't add much to the overall idea or concept), this is a more modern take on the movie Contact with Jodie Foster.I kind of liked where they were going with it, including all the new-age high tech ideas to get a 'human' into a wormhole, but they took their sweet time in getting into the meat of the story, at which point, I was getting drowsy and had to back it up several times.When time finally came for the main event, it was over as quickly as possible via super short and sped up sequences. Ten minutes and it was over. It's an interesting thought experiment, but that's about it.

Cerebral, intriguing, idealistic, hopeful, and still appreciates that no matter how advanced humans become, there is still a large and old universe that we grew up in late to the party. It is a thought-provoking film, in documentary style, so if you need to let the color of an 8k tv and/or mindless action fill your brain until it's quiet up top, then this movie is not for you.

Leider bin ich sehr enttäuscht von diesem "Film"!Es wurde eine spannende Geschichte durch falsche Umsetzung zu einem langweiligen Erlebnis.Wer einen spannenden Sience-Fiction-Film erwartet, wird mit einer Geschichte im Dokumentarfilmstil mit wackeliger Handkameraführung bestraft. Dies erklärt auch die Tatsache, dass ich im Vorfeld keinen aussagekräftigen Trailer zu diesem Film finden konnte.Wer allerdings auf so etwas steht, dürfte diesen Film durchaus interessant finden.Hätte ich vorher gewusst was mich erwartet, hätte ich das Geld nicht ausgegeben und mir diese Enttäuschung erspart.

Das ist mit Abstand der schlechteste Film, den ich je gesehen habe! Es gibt keine richtige Handlung, alles wird in einer Art Doku präsentiert. Man wartet die ganze Zeit dass etwas passiert, dass die Handlung beginnt oder ein Inhalt ersichtlich wird. Doch da kommt nichts. Die ganze Zeit nur irgendein pseudowissenschaftliches Blabla über Transhumanismus. Kurz gesagt: ganz schlechte und billige Umsetzung und Produktion. Schade um das Geld.

hatte auf einen SCIFI gehofft so wie in der Werbung angepriesen, und habe eine pseudotranshumanismus Doku gekauft... und die Tintenfischschwarmwesen kennt man doch aus einem anderen Film.. ich geb einen Stern auf die werbung, weil da alles gute vom Film drin war, und 1 auf die Story... und ziehe 3 ab weil es der Regiseur nicht verstanden hat die Story vernünftig umzusetzen...

Kann den positiven(!) Kritiken hier nicht mehr viel hinzufügen. Ein B-Streifen, ja klar. Aber mit viel Liebe gemacht.Für SciFi-Fans, die mehr Wert auf Story als Action legen und Transhumanisten ein traumhafter Streifen!

We have here a rather different story than most of Hollywood sci-fi scripters generally produce. Indeed director and writer Hasraf Dulull is a fellow to follow. Special effects are not among the best, but still they remain nice and credible. And the story is, IMHO, closer to genuine sci-fi literature than others. Hasraf Dulull made another sci-fi movie, "Origin Unknown" which is also quite good. I recommend these two movies.