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DVD Paradox Alice
 Run time: 115 min Rating: 3.8 Genres: Sci-Fi Director: Eric Dapkewicz Writers: David Babbitt, Eric Dapkewicz Stars: Jeneta St. Clair, Stewart W. Calhoun, Ethan Sharrett |
| Storyline In the near future, a team is sent on a dangerous mission to Europa to retrieve and bring water back to a dying Earth. Their operation unexpectedly goes awry, jeopardizing not only the lives of those on board but also on earth, resulting in the possible extinction of the human race. Written by Anonymous |
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| Details: Country: USA Release Date: 1 November 2012 (Taiwan) |
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DVD Paradox Alice
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Um yeah, where to start…
Terrible acting
Horrific script ("the guy's got an ego the size of a pork sausage" – whoever wrote that line does realize that pork sausages are quite small, right?!)
CGI that looks like it came from an early 90's kids TV show
Clichéd concepts stolen from every other sci-fi film you've ever seen
A spaceship on an important earth-saving mission that has less crew than a domestic airline flight (4 in total!)
A comically bad set – there's wooden shelves in the cockpit!
A soundtrack that won't be selling a single track on iTunes
My advice: avoid this B grade mess at all costs, or alternately, get a couple of friends together for a few drinks and then laugh your way through this cringe-worthy debacle.
Not just rubbish, offensive, insulting rubbish. It's difficult to give a single reason why this… product is so bad. Calling it a movie would be a disservice to the film industry.
The acting, which is painfully flat & wooden, is perhaps the least awful aspect of 'Paradox Alice'. While the set, effects, lighting & shot composition are bad they aren't as woefully poor as the script, or the director's incompetence.
However it's not the sloppy direction, bad acting, banal plot, truly mindless dialogue & apparent lack of any available stage technicians which really lets it down; Should you make the error of watching this monstrosity the script is probably one of the worst you'll ever have the misfortune to encounter.
This production is essentially an incredibly clumsy recruitment advertisement for Christianity, the sole message it delivers seems to be: "It's acceptable to rape a woman if the voice in your head tells you to." Truly vile.
Be warned & steer clear.
The description of this "movie" is very deceptive as it describes itself as being a sci-fi movie. However, other than the location and initial portion of the movie it has very little to actually do with sci-fi. The vast majority of the "movie" is a sermon on how god has a plan for all of us and that you should believe in god and without god there is no salvation and so on.
"spoiler alert" <- Site necessity
Then the movie continues on to depict violence towards the assumed last remaining woman, an attempt to brainwash her, and finally followed up by an equally distasteful and offensive rape scene, all under the premise that it's okay because it's "god's plan" for them.
When there is an absolute necessity for something like a rape scene either because of depiction of true events or because it's absolutely critical then while it may be an overall offensive addition it is there because it's absolutely necessary, and often times film makers will mention it happening and avoid showing it. In this movie is wasn't necessary at all, in fact there were numerous ways that it could have been completely avoided or reworked to be only an attempted rape. The only apparent reason why this scene was added to the movie was to bolster the preaching that god punishes those who don't accept him into their lives.
I think it's important to state that I'm not anti-religious, I personally belief that everyone has the right to belief in whatever they want.
All I need to do is rehearse the 5 main steps of the plot line to convince you that this movie is not good:
Step 1: A team of four people flies in a modest sized spaceship to Europa (a watery moon) to gather enough water to save humanity back on Earth. It appears that, in the future, people have gone thirsty and a modest sized spaceship full of water will be enough for everyone to drink. This is just dumb.
Step 2: Earth gets blown up, taking some of our own moon with it. No one really knows why chunks of our moon are missing in the wake of Earth's explosion, but that's the deal.
Step 3: With just three dudes left on the water tank / spaceship (the one woman on board died), one of the dudes turns into a woman. Yeah, and turning into a woman means squirming around on the floor while growing long, blonde hair and long, Lee Press On Nails. In the gender transformation scene, the Lee Press On Nails literally erupt out of the finger tips of the former dude who is now a lady.
Step 4: Then the rest of the movie, roughly half of it, it dedicated to the story of another one of the crew members, a bible-thumping young guy, getting all religiously horny for his now- femme-bot crew member. His biblical horniness makes him crazy.
Step 5: Oh, and the movie ends with the newbie-femme alone in the ship, pregnant, finding a new inhabitable planet to replace Earth, but being chased by a Klingony space ship.
See? Paradox Alice is not good.