Review of Air

Air (I) (2015)
7/10
6.5 But I rounded up my vote.
15 August 2015
Warning: Spoilers
I give this a 6.5 but u can't do that so I rounded it up to a 7. I really liked this film up until it's first ending... At about 1:25:00. Then it seemed like they gave in to the crowd who says "what happens after that?" or even worse the crowd who says "oh, u have to show the guy get the girl" and added an additional ending that was, in the lightest of terms, unnecessary. To me, it just messed up a really good film.

This is a sci-fi drama about two guard/maintenance workers at an airtight silo housing VIP scientists who are all in a sort of cryogenic sleep because the outside world has been contaminated. These guards are also in a sort of cryogenic and every six months they are automatically awoken to analyze data about the air in the outside world and do routine maintenance on the pods/facility. Evidentially, these VIP scientists are meant to foster in a new civilization when the outside environment becomes hospitable again.

This was designed/written to be a relatively inexpensive film to shoot. There are only 3 characters and they are underground an in a fairly small place so it's obviously a dialogue driven film and the tension was done pretty well. Sure, it could have been done better but this a good start for this director. Just should have ended it where It should have ended, 5 minutes early.

Overall, solid film. As I said, my rating is a 6.5.
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