Loveland

source: Expired

source: Expired

"This gem is targeted for the cinephiles who can appreciate the type of thought provoking story telling." Laughing my ass off. There is nothing thought provoking in this movie. It's not a gem. It's glacial pace with no substance leaves nothing to the imagination. And it should or there is no payoff. It has a consistent mood of yawn, like it's trying to be Bladerunner in some way. Was it called Loveland or Expired. It makes more sense as Loveland. The constant asian babble is annoying. Again a nod to Bladerunner. It failed to develop it's own plot points, such as the tech implants, the reasons for the girl affecting the lead and the nature of the corporation behind the experiments. There was so much material that could have been added that was just ignored. It would have made for a far deeper and more meaningful movie. I think it tries hard but is basically a bad movie with a bit of style around the edges.

Hollywood trying to normalize Asian females loving white men. How about Marvel giving shan chi a white love interest and normalize Asian men with white women Hollywood!

I couldn't last five minutes. The copied blade runner vibe tells you things will never get better. The lead is why I stopped. The actor is an ugly, shuffling, mumbling moron, while the character is a possibly morally ambiguous hit man. No thanks. I'm desperate for some watchable sci-fi, but not desperate enough to watch this.

This movie is not really worth spending time to review but I will in a few brief words anyway. The pace is terrible. The plot and scenes are completely disjointed. You are left trying to figure out what the hell is happening for close to 3/4 of the movie. Half the movie has voice-over from the characters that means nothing because you don't know what's going on to begin with. The story itself what actually interesting and could have been something with different direction and editing.

The feel of the film is great and the acting appropriate. At its core it examines what we are losing when we're clinging to life and trying to optimize it. The protagonist is someone who can live forever as long as he doesn't love anything, or he dies. The world is heavily inspired by Blade Runner: it looks and feels the same, it has pointless robots and cheap humans, everything is grand, luminous and depressing. The big problem with this film is that it is very slow and it tells a very simple idea in a complicated and roundabout way. If you're in it for the action and the thrills, this is not for you, but if you're looking for artistic expression without actually going towards something, you will probably love it. Bottom line: brilliant beginning, then slowly fizzling out. Ryan Kwanten was great, Jillian Nguyen cute and Hugo Weaving old. He had just a few minutes in the film, though, so it felt a little like bait and switch.

Slow, boring, not understandable. A great movie to send you off to sleep if you are having difficulty sleeping. Can someone, anyone explain to me what that was really about?? What a waste of time!

This is a an extremely ambitious film. It is far from perfect - some of the scripting of the characters' monologues, in particular, needed serious rewriting - but at least it was trying to do something original, interesting, and serious. If you are willing to be somewhat charitable regarding its limitations, it is still a far more interesting film than most that get produced these days. It is also visually arresting, well acted, with a great score.

I was looking forward to this film as I very much enjoyed Mystery Road and Goldstone. (It seems it has been released as Expired rather than the current 'Loveland' title here on imdb.) As a sci-fi film it is clearly somewhat hamstrung by a lack of budget. You get a couple of distant shots of a futuristic city but then all the filming of the cast are just on the street, 'today'. Nobody dresses any different, the cars and streets are all unchanged, its slighlty jarring. There are a lot of people walking around with umbrellas up, even though its not raining. I can only guess the plan was to cgi some of these sequences but maybe the money ran out. That aside when it starts it is really difficult to hear the lead actor. He speaks so quietly and is way down in the mix so that you can't hear what he is saying about half of the time. Most of the (long) opening narration is inaudible and throughout the film it's often a struggle to make out his dialogue. Its somewhat ironic all the Chinese cast, who speak clearly, are subtitled where it is the lead who really needs it. Its a very slow film and there really isn't much in the way of story. There is no chemistry at all between the two leads either so it was ultimately not very interesting. I made it to the end hoping there would be something more but then it ended. It seems to want to be a kind of mash-up between Paris, Texas and Blade Runner but its like thats as far as the idea went.