SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

qmtv Real rating is a B or C, or about 6 or 7 stars. 10 given to compensate for the slow viewers.I've seen this movie twice now. First time May, 2016 and at that time I thought it was slow and not much going on and the rating was a C or D. I just rewatched it last week and I must say given the budget it was much better that I originally thought.This movie basically takes Orwell's 1984 and cuts to the chase. The torture of the prisoner, the wardens addiction to torment the prisoner. The copy that I watched was from a 50 movies set and was not in the best shape but watchable. From what I gathered the Prisoner was a Corporate type that was implicated for not helping the new regime that just took over power. While he was imprisoned, and tortured, there must have been a world war and all that the prisoner knew, his wife and life was all gone. By the time he tried to escape he realized that even if he did get out there was nothing left. So, the prisoner and torture is all from 1984 but the ending is something else.The main actor did a fine job, some of the other actors were good too. The guard looked the part but his acting was garbage. The cinematography was very good. Music was good. Editing could have been a little tighter. The robots were interesting. There's a lot going on here. This is a low budget and I believe TV production. Imagine if they had some cash behind it. The story is there. And isn't that what most of us want, The story! One more thing. I recently watched 1984, twice, the 1984 version. What a pile of crap. I then watched the 1956 version. Much better. Then the Peter Cushing 1954 British TV version, the best 1984! I've also seen the US TV 1953 version, decent. I'd rather watch 984: Prisoner of the Future than the 1984 version of 1984.Real rating is a B/C, or 6 or 7 stars. 10 given for compensation for the slow viewers looking for the next Star Wars.

J-bot6 Many years ago I saw this movie on late-night television. Finally, after all this time I stumbled across it on a compilation. It was a pleasure to see this low-budget yet atmospheric film again.The lighting is well executed, editing is solid, acting is descent, and the robot designs are very cool. Shot selection is great, with lots of up-angle shots to add to the scale of the prison. This film has a great hard sci-fi short story feel to it. It's as if it was ripped from the pages of a science fiction serial from the 50s or from a plot by Harlan Ellison. It's nice to see something that hasn't been watered down by committee.Based on the credits it looks like this is a Canadian production. An interesting side-note is that there are very few Canadian productions that even come close to approaching USA Hollywood productions. Besides the relatively small budgets and general lack of infrastructure in Canada for film-production, there's a bit of a story behind the disparity between the two country's movie industries. The way it was relayed to me is something like this: Believe it or not, Canada's film industry started out as a pioneering force in film production and filming techniques. For example, there were some hot-shot crews working with the National Film Board of Canada figuring out advanced techniques for doing night shots and a variety of difficult weather shots and lighting setups. At some point, pressure was put on the NFB to move away from shooting movies and focus pretty much exclusively on documentaries and short films. Some suggest that it was a sort of non-competition clause between Canadian film productions and USA film productions. Hence the NFB is generally associated with very low production-value documentaries and short 'student' films. This gave the impression that Canadian film makers were somewhat inept.The reality of situation is that most of the talented Canadian film makers ended up being assimilated by Hollywood. Hence the vast number of Canadians living in L.A. Pull up a list of Canadian directors and cinematographers and prepare to be blown away. The conclusion is that if you actually supply these people with suitable equipment and a descent budget, they'll actually deliver the goods.

wildcarddaemons this made for t.v. or pilot episode was well made and enjoyable.Stephen Markle I was impressed he was solid and enjoyable. it follows the rules of show don't tell as well it reminds me of some other sci-fi shocker films I've seen. the reason i rate this so high is the acting is fantastic one or two spots of hammy but other then that,the sound of the film (at least My copy) was very quiet at times.The visual slightly in sepia around the left side of the screen. But with patience and an open mind you can see the enjoyment in a lot of films if you like decent writing and decent acting with a well proposed end i hope you enjoy as i have.

Red-Barracuda An executive is taken as a political prisoner and detained in a detention centre. He, along with others, is accused of being a conspirator who wishes to topple the new dictatorial communist-like government who have taken control. From here he is tortured in an attempt to make him confess to his involvement.984: Prisoner of the Future is an unnecessarily confusing film. Its story is really fairly straightforward but it's told in a way that results in more questions than answers. In quite a few other films this would be a pretty good thing but this one doesn't have the overall pay-off to really justify this approach. In fairness to it, this story-telling method was very probably a result of this being the pilot for a TV series. They obviously wanted to whet the audience's appetite with several unresolved plot threads that would get them excited enough to generated enough interest in a series. Unfortunately for the film-makers no series came of this, so this is all we have and this explains the vague nature of it. It's very possible they quickly put together the ending too, so that this pilot could go out as a standalone feature film. Whatever the case, the result is a pretty unsatisfying film. The low production values don't really help – the low budget would have been less of a problem in a TV series to be fair – but mainly it's the fact that the overall story seems to have little point that sinks this one.