10,000 Days (2014)

A Brilliant Conflict

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I gave this movie a 3, because I was interested in the idea of it. I hated the acting and way it played out though. I love John Schneider, and I love his acting. I think this movie had potential but the acting ruined it. I enjoyed the idea, and I personally think this could be a good TV series idea, and I also think that the conversation was cheesy. They spoke real simple, and the movie was hard to really be focused on, I'm writing this review while watching it, that's how bad it is! Anyways, it was only $1, so I suppose that's not bad. I would say they also could make the story-line move along, there was too much dialect, and slow moving parts for an hour and half movie. If it had a better pace, I think I could handle this movie.

10, 000 Days did have a good idea going for one, and very ambitious for a low budget movie. It also could have been fun with the right execution and if any effort was put into it, sadly that was not to be, because other than a decent performance from John Schneider there is nothing else to recommend 10,000 Days.The acting, other than Schneider, is at best very bad. Peter Wingfield has shown he can be good, but compensates too hard, he tries to be mysterious but comes over as campy instead. The rest of the actors are so amateurish and flat that it's embarrassing. To be fair, they are not entirely to blame as they were saddled with a script that's filled with cornball moments, gibberish explanations (if you call them that) and insultingly irrational sci-fi, as well as very poorly written characters developed in a non-descript and negatively (and, for some, racially) stereotypical way.10, 000 Days' story is very dully paced and incoherently told, with things introduced but either never resolved or even abandoned as well as things that needed explaining but never were. The movie ends far too abruptly, with an leaving-it-all-hanging effect rather than grasping the opportunity in tying up any loose ends, while it also contains some choppily edited and very poorly choreographed fight scenes. People have said that 10, 000 Days felt like a failed TV pilot, something that I wholeheartedly agree with, and it was to be honest a concept that would have worked better as a TV series, the movie just left things too underdeveloped and unexplained.It's a cheap-looking movie as well, shot in a drab and unfocused way and the special effects are laughably bad, and even worse than that in some points (like at the beginning). The music is largely uninteresting, and there is very little competence in the direction. Overall, liked the concept but absolutely hated the execution. 1/10 Bethany Cox

After 2 minutes I was cringing in my seat. After 5 minutes I felt embarrassed for all the people involved in this production. After 15 minutes I felt embarrassed that someone of the same species as me would do a horrible thing like this to one of the most popular art form of our time.Honestly, several actors in the movie act so bad that they don't even look like humans. Their body language is so wrong that the movie would have been a lot more plausible if they were impersonating aliens posing as humans. Well, maybe that was revealed to be the case in the end, but I felt that it it's more important to write this review than to finish watching the movie.

Don't waste your time with this stinker. Even John Scheider (of Dukes of Hazzard fame) can't save this film. I've heard better dialog and voice acting in high school plays.I can't think of anything good to say, other than it had potential, but completely wasted it. Worse, it ends suddenly just as something is finally about to happen. (I was told this was episode 1 of a TV series?).Dozens of plot holes and science/fact errors. A couple of semi-cute ladies (bundled up, sadly). Fake snow. Story involves a sudden ice age, a frozen Air Force One, flashlights powered by blood, awfully choreographed "fight" scenes, idiots who miraculously can make 50-year old frozen electronics work, and much other nonsense. Verdict: 2 stars, barely. I've seen worse, but not often.