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After serving two years on a military outpost in the middle of an ocean – four soldiers are waiting for a new crew to replace them. When the long-awaited boat finally appears, it’s empty with no relief on board. When trying to find out what happened to the boat and the missing crew, they realize they’ve lost all communications with home. Cut off from the rest of the world and no one coming to get them, Baines, Sullivan, Cassidy and Hendryx must fight with suspicions about each other and find a new way to get home. If the home still exists. (Allfilm)
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A good surprise and an exception to the rule that sometimes it pays to go first to an unknown indie film. I commend the idea of a future world being flooded due to climate change and rising ocean levels, leaving only 2 mini-continents, North and South. These are mutually antagonistic and after years of fighting each other we follow an old base in the ocean with a group of four soldiers guarding the area and most importantly a bomb. There is palpable tension from the start and the constant musical score gives the film a very good atmosphere. The interactions and relationships between the characters gradually build up and although the film looks like sci-fi at first glance, it is in fact a full-bodied, dense and intense interpersonal drama. This also brings me to the downsides, because this whole dystopian background is a perfect idea in itself, but they completely bungled it and told us almost nothing about the "new world". Instead, they go on dialogue ruts for two whole hours, so those who want visual sci-fi should temper their expectations. That said, if it's purely about the quality of the dramatic component, I'm surprised and delighted, because in this case the two hours passed like water and I actually devoured this chatter to my heart's content. The ending opens the door for moral and ethical questions and polemics, but I personally expected a better denouement. Still, a decent above-average film that deserves attention.
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