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Summary: Stay away, bad movie
Review: 1. This movie has horrible acting.
2. The plot is horrible.
Need I say more? I watched this and laughed at how bad this movie was. Save your money and look somewhere else.
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Summary: Epoch 2000: So-so SF
Review: All the pieces are good. A Mysterious Object appears in central Asia. Our Hero is recruited (under duress) to analyze it. He has no special qualifications, except for being generally good at figuring things out. He tries desperately to do the job he was ordered to do, but the ever-present military does what the military usually seems to do: get confused, issue contradictory orders as a result, and get more confused. Governments do what governments do: squabble over who owns something that no human agency could possibly own.
The end of the world begins, Our Hero is destroyed at ground zero in a nuclear explosion, he recovers nicely, and we get a happy ending. The pieces are good, but come together as an ordinary story.
Parts of the movie have a recycled look. Roger Dean used mysterious inverted cones on album covers in the 1970s. The white-on-white inner sanctum imitates Kubrick's 2001 (also from the 70s). The inexplicable healing forces have appeared lots of places, the movie E.T. among them. Epoch's creators certainly have been rummaging around in the effects closet. The good news is that they had the sense to pull out and try on some respectable material.
It's a safe, watchable SF movie. There's not a lot of violence, and adult themes appear only as hints off screen. There are lots of better movies out there, but lots worse too.
//wiredweird
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Summary: I gave EPOCH 2000 1 Star
Review: Because I could not give it a lower score.
This Sci-Fi flick is a mystery. Some well very known stars, acting as if they were in a Woman's Club play. The plot is where this film falls apart. Trying to use too much symbolism makes it very hard to understand.
It has good cast, this is how I was fooled into watching this awful movie. Cast: David Keith, Shannon Lee, Ryan O'Neal, James Avery and Craig Wasson.
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Summary: don't do it....
Review: I know it's tempting because you can't find it in the video store for rent, but you will have nothing but contempt for yourself if you purchase this disc. It's really really bad. trust me, it's so bad I will not waste anymore time on this review (and I happily own Spacetruckers and Tremor's III).
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Summary: Decent direct to video effort.
Review: Not half bad for a low budget DTV effort. I've seen worse (including the abysmal 'Deep Shock' also starring the wooden david keith) and of course, much better.
This one tells the tale of a massive structure rising from the bowels of the earth. It hovers in a desert where different groups vie to study its mysteries. Of course, theres the eternal man is to sick to live theme running through (ala The Day the Earth Stood Still and to a lesser extent 'The Abyss [extended version]). Still, Epoch is mildly enjoyable and I was thinking of what kind of movie this could have been with a more solid script and a bigger finacial backing. I think the devlin/emerich team behind Independence Day and Day After Tommorow could have made yet another end of the world hollywood pap trap with this material. Alas, there is no starpower or big studio to be found here. Instead the tale is brought to fruition by some outfit called UFO Films and features David Keith, the fallen Ryan O'Neil and an assortment of other B grade character actors (including Brian Thompson and his obligatory scenes of rage) I've seen elsewhere. The effects are steady but not spectacular. The storm scenes and sets were strong points whereas the rising of the monolith at the beggining of the film was an example of Godzilla like blue screen effort. In godzilla, its pricelss, here its not good.
The DVD itself is bare bones. No features other than a crappy trailer. The transfer is junk to with no clean up of the print and its not even displayed in its proper widescreen ratio. I just love when movies show us locations and time in the print at the bottom of the screen and the edges are chopped off.
Take Epoch for what it is and you may enjoy it. Go in looking for a big time hollywood effects blockbuster and be prepared to be let down.
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Summary: It's not that bad a film.
Review: This isn't as bad a film as some critics make out. I have seen a lot worse and they had a bigger budget than this made for TV movie had. Does anyone remember "Battlefield Earth"? Now that was a film that stank and sank! EPOCH on the other hand is an easy to watch, easy to understand movie that touches on areas that we all know and love.The plot follows a group of investigators as they struggle to find out the truth behind a strange monolith that has appeared in the middle of nowhere in Bhutan. David Keith is a dying scientist who finds himself cured of a terminal illness after he enters the Monolith. Ryan O'Neil doesn't do too badly as his equally confused colleague trying to keep the Military under control whilst at the same time trying to understand what is happening. The much loved James Avery (from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air) gives a good performance as a military Doctor and the excellent James Hong is cuttingly sarcastic as Chinese Ambassador Po. Add to this a Colonel with a power complex, a Captain whose belief in God comes into conflict with his orders and you have a pretty good film. The film's overall storyline is that the Monolith intends to "wipe the slate clean and start all over again," because in a nutshell earth and its destructive human population isn't worthy of existing anymore. The Monolith is able to resequence DNA, hence David Keith's miraculous cure and the resurrection of two dead Chinese pilots and a Scientist. Okay so the special effects aren't all that and a bag of chips, but even with a couple million dollars worth of special effects, "Battlefield Earth" still managed to honk louder than a gaggle geese in a farmyard! It's not a terribly suspenseful film but it is watchable and not as bad as some people are making out. It certainly isn't cinema quality that is for sure then neither are a lot of movies that make it to the cinema and I don't see them getting panned in the same way. Make your own mind up about this movie, don't expect much other than a nice little movie that you can rent out when there is nothing else available. Like I said, it's not that bad.
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Summary: BAD MOVIE ALERT!
Review: this movie has taught me that live is short and every second precious. do not waste a moment.
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Summary: Solid for a DTV...
Review: UFO LLC is not the film company to go to when you're looking for solid filmmaking or great writing. They're a company that thrives only on its special-effects rather than anything else. Yet for what it's worth, I found "Epoch" to be a very enjoyable movie where I didn't need to think for a bit. Compare it to "Sphere" and it seems like a sci-fi masterpiece! The story is not the usual large-monster horror film like UFO usually does. It's about an alien artifact that is found in Bhutan. The army is sent to investigate it. Many theories rise up and there are a few neat effects sequences. The movie never tries to rise above its own intelligence. It never once insults the intelligence of the viewer, and it never stretches anything out to a ridiculous length. The special effects are extraordinary, the best UFO has ever done. The story is simple enough, but not stupid. True, when you get right to it, it's another direct-to-video movie. But not once does it try to pretend its anything more. I liked it.
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Summary: A epic bomb
Review: Washed up, bloated, Ryan O'Neal is the star of this TV flick, so that should give you enough information to know just how bad "Epoch" is going to be. Unfortunately, I bit anyway. What a colossal waste of time. The plot is transparent; the characters, unbelievably shallow, hackneyed and stock. The actors? I've seen better acting in high school productions. They deliver lines about as well as Ackroyd's Beldar from Saturday Night Live. How the producers and directors could have put their names to this time waster is beyond me. Don't be fooled by the cool production art on the DVD cover. This...is of such "Epoch" proportions the fact that it actually was released should be science fiction. I feel like such a fool for having rented it to watch.
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Summary: A epic bomb
Review: Washed up, bloated, Ryan O'Neal is the star of this TV flick, so that should give you enough information to know just how bad "Epoch" is going to be. Unfortunately, I bit anyway. What a colossal waste of time. The plot is transparent; the characters, unbelievably shallow, hackneyed and stock. The actors? I've seen better acting in high school productions. They deliver lines about as well as Ackroyd's Beldar from Saturday Night Live. How the producers and directors could have put their names to this time waster is beyond me. Don't be fooled by the cool production art on the DVD cover. This...is of such "Epoch" proportions the fact that it actually was released should be science fiction. I feel like such a fool for having rented it to watch.
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