Rented a decent little paranoia / suspense / sci-fi flick called Anti Matter on iTunes. Won’t set the world on fire but if you want smaller, thoughtful, if a little overly-long sci-fi flicks with ideas, it’s not a bad rent.
The film is set at a modern university where three smart grad students invent matter teleportation, almost by accident. They consider how rich they’re gonna be and how such technology will change the world over night. But, as they go about testing it on inanimate objects and small plants, they risk getting their computational power (long story) cut so they move too quickly to human trials. And you know nothing goes right in a movie like this when that happens.
What exactly happens is part of the film’s mystery… but it plays it out WAY too long. This would be a fine Twilight Zone or Black Mirror episode but at 1hr 45min or so, it spins its conspiracy/paranoia wheels too much.
But it does still ask interesting philosophical questions and has a legitimately moving ending (even if the final revelation may lack in logic). Between the smart intro and this, it’s just enough to recommend it to a certain subset of people who find the ideas intriguing. A minor recommendation.
Score: 70