Paradox Alice (2012) Reviews

• Paradox Alice: Memorable scifi, but mostly for the wrong reasons

  Platypuschow2018-03-15

  Paradox Alice (Originally titled The Serpent, The Prophet And The Angel) is a very unusual scifi effort. It tells the story of a world stricken with a lack of clean drinking water to an extent where wars are breaking out globally because of it. A ship manned by 4 people is on a desperate mission to acquire water from space and are on their way back. On route however (No spoilers here) a very unusual event transpires that changes everything and possibly the entire fate of humanity. The "Thing" in question is very original and quite well thought through, sadly it makes for some very uncomfortable viewing. Now recently I was debating a very bizzare point in the movie industry. According to statistics around 80% of Americans identify themselves as Christian, so why is it that almost everytime A Christian is shown in a movie they are a dangerous, unhinged and/or "Wacky"? You'd think that wouldn't be the case. This movie is a perfect example. We have a devout Christian, a young man who begins obnoxious and escalates to highly dangerous and arguably the movies antagonist. He even quotes Leviticus, part of which is "'Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible; anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord is to be put to death". Now this frustrates me because people instantly slate the Quran claiming its full statements that tell it's followers to be violent and kill unbelievers while wearing lead blinkers that prevent them from acknowledging that the bible does as well. I've gone off on a tangent, my apologies. Bottom line is religious antagonists are a double edged blade. They are bad guys you want to see defeated but at the same time are far too relatable as you don't need to go far to find one in the real world. Paradox Alice has some great ideas but too much is badly flawed. Credit to the cast, credit to the filmmakers but it's one of those films that really gets under your skin more than was intended. The Good: Some great ideas Looks good Has a certain charm to it Detestable antagonist The Bad: That Christian kid needed dropkicking into space from the outset Premise has some weirdly uncomfortable moments Finale was a let down Things I Learnt From This Movie: Christian logic "If I'm a good person then God will protect me" also Christian logic "The entire earth has been destroyed and everyone is dead, god has a plan" I don't understand why stunt boobs are a thing

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• Lee Press On Nails For the Win!

  metaspencer2014-02-22

  All I need to do is rehearse the 5 main steps of the plot line to convince you that this movie is not good: Step 1: A team of four people flies in a modest sized spaceship to Europa (a watery moon) to gather enough water to save humanity back on Earth. It appears that, in the future, people have gone thirsty and a modest sized spaceship full of water will be enough for everyone to drink. This is just dumb. Step 2: Earth gets blown up, taking some of our own moon with it. No one really knows why chunks of our moon are missing in the wake of Earth's explosion, but that's the deal. Step 3: With just three dudes left on the water tank / spaceship (the one woman on board died), one of the dudes turns into a woman. Yeah, and turning into a woman means squirming around on the floor while growing long, blonde hair and long, Lee Press On Nails. In the gender transformation scene, the Lee Press On Nails literally erupt out of the finger tips of the former dude who is now a lady. Step 4: Then the rest of the movie, roughly half of it, it dedicated to the story of another one of the crew members, a bible-thumping young guy, getting all religiously horny for his now- femme-bot crew member. His biblical horniness makes him crazy. Step 5: Oh, and the movie ends with the newbie-femme alone in the ship, pregnant, finding a new inhabitable planet to replace Earth, but being chased by a Klingony space ship. See? Paradox Alice is not good.

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• A must watch. If there's absolutely nothing else available

  MannyInNewYork2018-07-13

  Looks cheap, sounds cheap, acting was bad but that could be the cheesy script and poor direction. It's as if the writers were trying to deliver some faith based message but ended up with some lousy soft core space porn. A stupid story and a cringe worthy video. The other reviews with spoilers pretty much sum it up -it's garbage. I watched it out of curiosity while killing two hours waiting for rotisserie chicken to fully cook. Chicken got 10 stars, movie got 1.

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• B grade rubbish

  brendan-821-6548552013-10-18

  Um yeah, where to start... Terrible acting Horrific script ("the guy's got an ego the size of a pork sausage" - whoever wrote that line does realize that pork sausages are quite small, right?!) CGI that looks like it came from an early 90's kids TV show Clichéd concepts stolen from every other sci-fi film you've ever seen A spaceship on an important earth-saving mission that has less crew than a domestic airline flight (4 in total!) A comically bad set - there's wooden shelves in the cockpit! A soundtrack that won't be selling a single track on iTunes My advice: avoid this B grade mess at all costs, or alternately, get a couple of friends together for a few drinks and then laugh your way through this cringe-worthy debacle.

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• AWFUL, INSIPID MYSOGYNISTIC DRECK

  grantjcobb2018-10-18

  The Amazon Prime synopsis refers to this trash as a "cornerstone in the new paradigm of .. Sci-Fi" then compares itself to a good film "Gravity". There is absolutely no comparison, this whole movie is garbage, mostly because of the storyline and bad body double editing. The story is awful, the men are stupid, the morph-woman is weak and THE WORST PART is that the twisted religious content and MYSOGYNISTIC trash was approved and directed by a woman!! How could anyone produce this crap, I'm angry at myself for watching it. I will also complain to Amazon. I am offended to my core.

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