Five Science Fiction Movies to Avoid Now
‘Tales From the Apocalypse’
Skip them on most major platforms.
Anthology movies are, for the most part, highly overrated, so it is worth noting how consistently disappointing these five shorts are, despite being hyped up. (All have been available to stream for free on YouTube but trust us, it's better to avoid them altogether.) The umbrella title suggests we’re in for stories that will blow our minds, but the only thing that blows is the quality. The Brazilian director Gabriel Kalim Mucci’s “Lunatique” is a complete waste of time. Wordless and incredibly dull, the film follows a woman (Lila Guimarães) trying to survive in a non-existent plot. Mucci uses a monochromatic palette to create sleep-inducing scenes, with no redeeming qualities here and there (I won’t soon forget that ferret, because it was the only semi-interesting thing in the whole film). His film leaves you wanting any other movie, and when do viewers ever feel that way?
More women try to make it on their own, albeit in space, in William Hellmuth’s “Alone” and Damon Duncan’s “Cradle” — both shorts have unsatisfying twists that “Twilight Zone” fans will despise, and Steph Barkley gives a painfully mediocre performance as a pilot stranded at the edge of a black hole in “Alone.”
The dangers of emotions running amok undergirds both Susie Jones’s “New Mars” (a settlement on Mars attempts to regulate love for the greater good of the colony — with yet another dreadful twist) and Lin Sun’s “AI-pocalypse” (starring a dimension-hopping android with absolutely no charm or substance). For lovers of the short form, this is a real disappointment.
Don't waste your precious time on these movies. Instead, go for a walk, call a friend, or even watch paint dry. It would be a far more rewarding experience than subjecting yourself to these catastrophic failures.
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