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- 2017
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 31 m
- 2017
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 31 m
Summary Set in a future version of the world, the video game style plot follows an experiment for unlimited energy, harnessing parallel universes, which goes wrong. Chased by drones and soldiers, pilot and physicist Will Porter (Dan Stevens) must race through an imploding world to get the Redivider box to a tower, which will save humanity, inclu...
Directed By: Tim Smit
Written By: Charles Kindinger, Omid Nooshin
- 2017
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 31 m
- 2017
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 31 m
Kill Switch
31
3.8
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Summary Set in a future version of the world, the video game style plot follows an experiment for unlimited energy, harnessing parallel universes, which goes wrong. Chased by drones and soldiers, pilot and physicist Will Porter (Dan Stevens) must race through an imploding world to get the Redivider box to a tower, which will save humanity, inclu...
Directed By: Tim Smit
Written By: Charles Kindinger, Omid Nooshin
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
31
13% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
31
13% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Granted, the film might not have turned out much better had Smit stuck with one perspective or the other, but at least it would have had constancy. Instead, it reads strictly as a video game, sans the requisite interactive gratification.
Indie sci-fi film Kill Switch is the worst kind of science-fiction film: the kind that coasts on a central gimmick instead of delivering either visceral or intellectual thrills.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
3.8
17% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
25% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
58% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
3.8
17% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
25% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
58% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
(Mauro Lanari)
This Tim Smit debut suffers from a physical law of balance/equilibrium similar to that of its story: the sci-fi film and the first person shooter game plunder each other.
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Dan Stevens navigates the film’s literal and thematic alleyways with the same enthusiastic befuddlement that convinced many to soldier through Legion‘s more impenetrable stretches.
It’s an illogical, simple-minded mess in which Stevens is primarily a disembodied voice in a first-person-shooter-style video game movie.
A visually imaginative but narratively incoherent exercise that provides viewers the unwelcome opportunity to feel what it’s like to watch a video game being played by someone else.
Kill Switch is an ungainly hybrid of two totally disparate mediums that have been Human Centipede-d together: film and first-person-shooter video games. Film is not the front end of this configuration.
The plot, unlike its execution, is not terrible.
The saddest fall **** actor. An attempt to create a first person cinema in a pure science fiction atmosphere about the alien invasion. Irrational action scenes with tragic CGI and terrible acting in every aspect. It is a pity that such a thing happened.
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Writing is top-notch hot garbage and the delivery of it reflects that perfectly.
The budget of the movie must be small, as the actors are... reflective of it, and evidently the writer wasn´t given food for more than a couple days while they locked ´im up in the basement, resulting in a script that is kinda like one from a first time novelist with no actual human contact in their life, or sense how anything works. Internal inconsistencies and nonsensicalities galore.
You know that gag from Simpsons where anything toppling over bursts into flames? Made me think of that twice.
Ok, so I took a glance at stuff and it turns out there´s no writer. There instead were two screenplay cartoonists and I suppose that explains some stuff.
And yeah, the camerawork tries to imitate what "Doom" did in one scene. Here ´first-person´ is the dominant angle akin to "Hardcore Henry" which, unlike this one, managed to be entertaining. The first person gimmic doesn´t work as a drama platform very well as (in this movie) it looks as if the actors are (they are) staring at the cameraholders chest hair instead of their face, which affects performance. The movie is sci-fi only for the premise. It wanted to be an action film, but has barely any. And what little it does show is.. Improvised, looks like. Much like the dialogue.
Some special effects and sound design are ok. +2 points.
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