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Good movie but grossly overrated

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

I'll give "Eden Log" credit - the visuals and sound design for this movie are amazing. They create an immersive experience of collapse, chaos, dread, paranoia and confusion that goes a long way on the strength of pancake mud makeup, gloomy lighting, color filters, netting and plastic curtains.Problem: I wish the screenplay didn't to resort to the threadbare plot device of having the protagonist wake up with a case of amnesia - amnesia as a way to preserve the central mystery of the movie has been done to death in everything from "Resident Evil" to "Pandorum" in the last few years.Another problem: I saw the movie on DVD with dubbed English, so it's possible that I missed some verbal cues and some French language context that would have helped the story make more sense. I watch a lot of chewy, difficult movies and I often have the endings of movies figured out 10 minutes after the story begins, and I paid close attention, and I still missed the meaning of some of the plot developments. I finally caught on thanks to the IMDb message boards, but it should not have been necessary.Last, the movie is essentially a parable and a warning about certain aspects of society and the human condition, and is quite heavy handed in the way it delivers its central message. The characters are complete blank ciphers. You can practically see the "message coming in for you, Sir!" arrows zinging off the screen and at your eyeballs. If I want to be beaten over the head with anti-Military/Industrial/consumerist messages, I'll rewatch "Metropolis", which did it better decades ago.Still, this was worth watching at least once just for the visuals and the soundtrack.

My theory is that the writer of this...story ate some magic mushrooms and then sat down and wrote the script. IF the intended audience were to consume some 'shrooms before watching this, everything would make sense.I don't know, maybe I'm old fashioned. I kinda like a movie to have some kind of plot, a storyline, characters that I either like, hate or have some kind of feeling for what happens to them. These are all things that I think are good things and are nowhere to be seen in this movie. I don't want to watch a movie where I have to now pretend I'm in one of my film classes from college and have to write a treatise about it because it's a THINKER film. Do not let anyone confuse you and say that if you were intelligent the film makes perfect sense, it does not. However, I honestly do believe that after viewing this...movie, my I.Q. lowered and I really should have done what I was asked to do and simply switched it off after the first 15 minutes, but I kept watching it in the vain hope it was going to suddenly make sense of everything.To put it plainly, it could be taking place on Earth or an Alien planet, it could be in our far distant future or it may be something out of a parallel universe. I think basically it was written by a kid who discovered that he could make a light bulb glow with a potato and took it a few steps further.Either way, save some time in your life and give this flick a pass if it shows up near you. Unless you want to test my theory.

I checked the spoiler warning but there's no need. I defy anyone to make a coherent statement about anything in this film that would give anything away. There's no beginning, no middle and no end. Nothing is explained or makes sense on its own. I watched the French version with English subtitles, but I might as well have watched the Swahili version with subtitles in Esperanto. Worse yet, it's filmed in "seizure vision".The only good news is I have a new addition to my list of "Why the French should not be allowed to make science fiction movies" which include - Fantastic Planet, Le Jete, The Fifth Element, Immortal and Alphaville.

There are bad films and bad films. Some have good acting and production values and still turn out to be pretentious or shallow. Others are made on the cheap and look it. People like to say "Plan Nine from Outer Space" is the worst ever made. It's not, this is worse. This movie is bad in every way possible and you can't even laugh at it. Let me count the ways: It's dark, filmed in monotone, the protagonist is a moron (even after he starts to wake up which takes forever), the set is cheap and badly lit, mostly dangling plastic tubing and rubber tree roots, the dubbed voices are as bad as any 1970s Hong Kong martial arts flick, and the story makes no sense at all. A man who remarkably resembles the Incredible Hulk awakes in a dank, dark underground garage with no memory. He staggers around among wrecked equipment and dangling roots. This goes on forever. He is trying to get to the surface. We have no idea where he is, who he is, or how he got there. He meets a girl. They are attacked by pasty zombies, or mutants. Unlike him, she manages a couple of intelligible sentences and then she disappears into the tunnels. She believes she's turning into a mutant, I think. After a while I didn't care what was going on, I just wanted out. But what I hated most about this film was that the filmmakers had no story to tell and no concept of what kind of world they were supposed to be creating and they went ahead and made a movie anyway. I couldn't make out what the characters were saying so I muted the TV so I could read subtitles, but then I realized that the characters were just shouting meaningless slogans like: "They're not getting energy from the Tree, they're getting it from the humans in the cubes!" ...What? Evidently there was some experiment where a Super Tree was being cultivated in an underground complex (for unexplained reasons) and something went terribly wrong, maybe the Tree exploded and turned the workers into mutants. The protagonist who forgot who he was, was sent down to find out the damage and report. But evidently he turns up in a different body. Why was that? What went wrong is never explained. Maybe they were trying to get energy from the defunct Tree but in a later scene there is a city above the tree and all the lights are on and so they're getting energy from somewhere else. The humans in the cubes maybe? None of it made any sense. If there was any spoiler I could actually give about the film I would do so just to get people to stay away. If I could explain the lame ending I would, but I couldn't even understand that. Eden Log is worse than bad because the filmmakers were lazy, cheap, frivolous and inauthentic. Some films try and fail, this film didn't even try.