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  Review by Kevflix And Chill ★★★½ 3

  I typically love the world building aspects of these weird indie sci-fi films and Vesper is no exception. The production design is really impressive and it’s one of a few films where I think I was drawn in completely by the image on the poster. This dystopian world has a sharp divide between the classes. Those that live in (presumed) luxury at the citadels and those that scavenge for survival. When 13 y/o Vesper (Rafiella Chapman) see a citadel ship crash near her home along with a mysterious passenger, it presents an opportunity for her to potentially gain entrance to a citadel. There isn’t anything particularly unique about the story here, but the marriage of the concept and the visuals and score…

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★★ 1

  Patiently waiting for society to collapse so teens can finally leave social media and start biohacking. I’ll take synthetic bio-creations over mindless Tik Tok choreographies any day.

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  Review by Theyo Theyo ★★★★

  For a small indie sci-fi movie, the special effects are stunning, visually striking and the world building was incredible. It’s a slow burn but I really enjoyed it. I hope there will be a sequel!

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  Review by Drew Gregory ★★★★ 1

  Ugh I hate when I'm trying to flirt with the hot city girl by showing off my synthetic bio-creations but my dad's drone robot head is there cockblocking

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★

  Set in “the new dark ages” — a ruined tomorrow in which the engineered viruses and organisms that humanity created in order to stem the planet’s ecological crisis have escaped into the wild and remade life on Earth into a dreary (but awesome) Cronenbergian wasteland full of fleshy droids, bioluminescent critters, and trees whose spores try to suck out your internal tissue while you sleep — Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper’s “Vesper” has already drawn several comparisons to the likes of “Stalker” and the Andrei Tarkovsky-inspired “Annihilation.” It’s easy to see why.

  Told at the somnambulant of a European art film but plotted with the simplicity of a fairy tale, the filmmaking duo’s first feature since 2012’s “Vanishing Waves” offers…

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  Review by 20oldboy03 ★★★½ 4

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  In einer Welt der Zurückgewinnung der Natur über die ihre korrumpierte Ökologie eines dadurch neu erschaffenen Ökosystems, erschuf der Mensch im versuchten Wandeln unter Gottes Gefilden, eine neue Gen-Eiszeit abgestorbenem Lebens sowohl des Tierreiches wie der Pflanzenwelt ebenso mit den Verursacher dessen, der Menschheit selbst. Die nicht weiter genannte bzw. datierte Zukunft in „Vesper“ (soweit mein Sieb von Gehirn und eine kurze Recherchearbeit), ist überwuchert vom Grün ob Wald bis zu mangrovenartigen Gebieten die, vorneweg, einmal mit relativ bescheidenen aber eben funktionierenden Mitteln gezeigt wie abgebildet wird. Viel mehr noch zeigt „Vesper“ in der neu geschaffenen Gesellschaft die Dystopie dieser Welt die wohl und hoffentlich eine fiktive Zukunft zeigt, schlimmstenfalls vorneweg nimmt.

  In Zitadellen, so genannt die…

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  Review by rbplastic ★★½

  To every sci fi writer who can make amazing world building in their universes and then do NOTHING with it, you are the worst people alive

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  Review by Matt ★★★ 2

  Quite astonishingly, this movie cost just €5m to make. There are $150m movies that don't look as good. The special effects, cinematography and general ambiance of most of this, it's a pleasure for the eyes. Immaculate detail, ambitious 'what's that on the horizon?'-style scope, wonderful colour punching through the dreary world. They deserve awards for the technical side.

  Then we get to the 'but' - Vesper should've been a short film. It simply doesn't have the narrative strength to carry nearly two hours of grindingly slow drama and wafer thin characters: if there was a fraction of that time to fill instead and with the same genius making it look so damn beautiful it would've been truly special.

  A thunderously bleak slice of sci fi with more than a hint of a message about ecological ethics and responsibilities when it's not a dull serving of pure misery with Eddie Marsan bullying everyone he interacts with.

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  Review by joshrowley ★★ 1

  Atmospheric; dull; dystopian; flat; lo-fi; long; slow; underwhelming; well-crafted.

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  Review by ndc32002 ★★★ 3

  explain a film plot badly: albino clone nicole kidman saves step daughter from skeletor army so she can garden

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  Review by Kylo ★★½

  This is by no means a bad movie. I always respect a fresh original sci-fi concept. It’s well made too. Just not for me though. Dreary, long and slow.

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  Review by pinkslimer ★★★★

  Instantly captivating, shades of Cronenberg, Jeunet and Tarkovsky. Excellent filmmaking of a kind that’s becoming increasingly rare.