2307: Winter's Dream (2016) Reviews

• Only OK but watchable

  moorek2017-07-09

  Most of the elements of this movie are common in sci-fi. Some of the plot lines don't seem to make much sense nor are well explained. Unfortunately the main character is a rather limited actor. I did enjoy the main mutant actor. Almost all the movie is filmed outdoors in winter. I like that. We don't have many movies that do that so that makes it very different. While I expect and can tolerate problems with plot lines - there is one here that is just too extreme to ignore. The world is a frozen wasteland. Have been for 300 years. It is so cold that on the surface even an enhanced human can only survive 4 days. OK that makes for an interesting premise. But... in one scene when the main character puts his hand in water and takes it out - it freezes instantly and they rush to thaw it. Yet the small hole in the ice doesn't freeze over. Later in the movie they are walking across this freezing horizon with hats and hoods off. We meet humans later who also don't feel any need to cover their heads. Also it is said at least twice that all animal life has died yet we see one guy catching fish and in another scene a rabbit and a deer are hung up. But the movie makes a point that there is no life. And it's not like this is in some unexplored area - it's on their way to one of their emergency supply depots. And it is winter and trees are still standing which would be fine if this wasn't 300 after the endless winter started. Then we also see conifers - which would have also died 300 years earlier. If you are going to make a future winter world without life then at least film it in some treeless winter environment. It's not a great movie but you'll likely find parts of it enjoyable. Just don't follow the plot.

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• Good Story vs Bad Production

  oyalinkaya2017-11-04

  The story is not unique, but actually a good one. However when you combine that good story with bad acting, poor CG, terrible dialogues and immense plot holes, the output is inevitably below par. I say bad acting because any mimic, gesture and voice acting are so exaggerated that you feel an urge to slap their faces to help them back to their senses. Other than a few main roles, every character is either shouting hysterically or acting overly self-confident. Poor CG is acceptable in consideration of the lower budget. Terrible dialogues are everywhere. Either there are lots of cut scenes or several writers authored the script individually and than shuffled the pages to make a scrambled innovation. The result stinks like a bowl of deteriorated and uncooked scrambled eggs. Plot holes. Oh my! Countless. Self detonating non-explosive things, inverted hands with absurd axis shifts in camera view, unexplained relationships, and most importantly climate defying "everything"... In a movie of which the plot is about extreme climate change, some clothing freezes in water, which is surprisingly present in extreme low temperatures and some organic tissues survive in the same water source. All in all, it would have been a masterpiece, toppling "Oblivion" of Cruise in many ways. If you really have a two-hour spare time and the movie is free, watch till the end, against all odds. The ending is satisfactory. But the journey may get really boring and your thumb would reach out for the stand-by button any time.

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• Amateurish cliché-ridden trash

  Tyndareon2017-06-18

  Formulaic pseudo-post apocalyptic film, with terrible action scenes and the flimsiest excuse of a plot, carelessly patched together by common myths infesting actual movies. There's really little to none redeeming value in this. 1)As sci-fi it doesn't even compete; it raises no questions, introduces no new ideas, creates not even a shadow of an actual futuristic setting. 2)As a thriller it has no tension; nobody can summon the willpower to care for "characters" who systematically act out the most inane choices and the amateurish direction doesn't help. 3)The backbone of the plot is so.. safe, it feels like a sham. I'll occasionally stomach the pseudo-intellectual doctrine that passes for liberalism in Hollywood these days as long as it is attached to a 100M production. But in an independent production - and a sci-fi to boot - I expect to be presented with the unpopular opinion, the 'truth' that lacks recognition or exposure, not to be spoon-fed the mainstream dogma! In any case there were a couple of decent lines - maybe even competent - so I'll give it a 2.

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• I am begging, please do not waste your time

  atabongnkeng2018-04-15

  From the very beginning, you can already see how the acting is, simply, horrible. The chemistry they tried to create between the squad members is so so so painful to watch that I had to turn off the tv. Could not get past 20 minutes. It seemed like a good plot/concept but the execution makes it unwatchable.

• The choices we make in the dark.

  nogodnomasters2017-07-04

  The year is 2307 and the Earth has had 300 years of self induced winter, or maybe it was a meteor, but it is here. Humans live below the surface using geothermal energy near Phoenix. They have created a race of "black blood" humanoids to be our slaves, a group of "mules" that can not reproduce. Bishop (Paul Sidhu) had an infant child taken by humanoid Ash-393 (Branden Coles) and is out somewhere on the forbidden surface. It is now 5 years after the kidnapping. Bishop has a group with him, one is Kix (Arielle Holmes) who reads "Mein Kampf" and sees the Humanoids as people that need to be exterminated for the "Fatherland" regardless of the fact there is no "Fatherland." It also includes El Hatta (Kelcey Watson) who sports a thick Jamaican accent even though his ancestors have been with this small group of people for 8-9 generations. Not really explained, but a lot of things weren't explained like the trees and I have my doubts about the Northern Lights in Arizona even with a local magnetic disturbance. EMFs after 300 years? You watch people fight and kill and then 20 minutes from the end it twists with the film about over, Paul Sidhu was not an exciting protagonist, a man who is sad and quiet. Arielle Holmes had the only real personality and she was a Nazi. The scenario wasn't great and hard to grasp as they mix 'Brave New World" with an Ice Age apocalypse. In one scene they enter a room with a guy in a hood looking frozen at a table and I thought Star Trek "The Naked Time." 2 stars for the good flashback, not worth much more. Would have been better if there was a train circling the planet in the frozen background. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

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