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DVD Sol
 Rating: 3.3 Genres: Sci-Fi Director: Benjamin Carland Writers: Benjamin Carland Stars: Jake White, Jake Brown, Colin Conners |
| Storyline Far into the future a group of young adults are stranded on a hostile alien planet with no hope of getting home. |
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| Plot Keywords: young adult, alien planet, stranded, one word title | |
| Details: Country: USA Release Date: 18 April 2012 (USA) |
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| Box Office Budget: $250,000 (estimated) |
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I registered with IMDb just so that I could write this review. I was that motivated by the awfulness of this movie. I defy you to name a worse movie. If this movie was any worse, it would actually be better, by virtue of being remarkably something. Normally, I would simply stop watching a bad movie, but I was morbidly curious as to whether the ending could be as terrible as the beginning, so I fast forwarded there. Indeed, they managed to cook up an ending as bad as the beginning. This movie has it all- bad acting, bad costumes, bad effects, an incoherent plot. At the same time, it has none of he awful charm of an Ed Wood flick.
I wasn't sure what to expect when I watched this movie but I was drawn into the plot from the first minute. The story revolves around teams of young people who are playing an galactic game called Sol. Teams of youths are transported to planets throughout the galaxy without knowing which planet they will land on and the winner is the first person to find our sun (Sol) in the night sky. Something goes wrong from the start and therein lies the story.
I'm not sure why the other reviewer found this movie to be so bad. It's a suspenseful story, with shades of The Lord of the Flies and Robinson Crusoe about it. It's not overflowing with exciting special effects and has a bit of a low budget feel to it, but the interplay of the characters is interesting and overall, I found the movie to be a thought-provoking and satisfying experience.
From the beginning, people act like they know what they're doing but we really have no idea what the movie is about.
Eventually, we get the plot, more or less. The idea is this is some kind of competition on a deserted planet. This is a sci-fi movie, and the whole movie is filmed at the beach. I got tricked by the label sci-fi and the idea of a foreign planet, but really this is just a bunch of guys at the beach.
The movie is bad. I think normally that makes me puke would get a 1. It's not at that level, but it still gets the worst score for the following reason: – Not a single interesting character. I can't distinguish their personality and I don't even now any of their names. – Not a single smile for 99% of the movie. The characters try to act serious the whole time, and smile only to make smart ass comments. – This one ought to convince you: THERE'S NO SINGLE GIRL.
jbviewer review is suspect because of being a member for 7 yrs & THIS is the movie that was inspiration to write the only review after so many years?!? HORRIBLE acting realized in the first 3 minute, then the characters start spewing jargon about academies, & being captain of some team to get a coin to join some higher order all of which is never explained. The reason for the mistrust is because of the tournament & they've been stranded a an unknown planet & there is not way to get back thru the slip gate.
Immediately you realize everyone is missing members from their teams except for one & the race is on to win the tournament at all costs. No trusts each other in part because they teach @ these academies do whatever it takes to win, even if they have to kill the other team members or teams. SO despite the fact the others are likely dead, all the equipment/ supplies didn't make it thru & slip gate isn't working stranding them light years away on an unknown planet to the team members everyone is worried only about winning instead of survival.
The dialog through out the film is delivered w/o any convincing emotion by anyone. I kept waiting for KIT to die because of him being so ANNOYING & HAL couldn't have died sooner to keep him from playing his stupid ocarina…this whole thing is just plain horrible.