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This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Overrated and overhyped

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The story is a retelling of a theme that's been done before, but it's done well and the acting is very good in my opinion.There are so many clues as to what's actually going on, the repeated phrases, the surreal events... sonogram in the woods, come on people, it's not literal. The people shown in multiple roles (think Wizard of Oz here... "and you were there, and you were there...") Also we go from impending doom from an Asteroid to Alien invasion with no one questioning the transition. As another reviewer has mentioned, The scenarios in the film are all there because they are something the main character has seen or experienced.I believe that the bad reviews are due to people taking the movie too literally. I see the whole movie as sort of a fever dream" When I watched it, I immediately thought of "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". When you realize what's going on it makes much more sense. Overall, I would recommend it.

There's a few movies out that deal with the near death experience. Few do it as neatly and with as much engagement as this one. I was reminded of the congress (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/) fairly quickly, although this one doesn't go all the way through.From the start, Beyond sets itself apart from the crowd. The scripting is realistic - I got the feeling i was glimpsing the uncomfortable interactions of normal people. The actors are great. I was wondering if they had a script or were winging it on a number of occasions, since they seemed to own their roles so well.The tie-ing in of the NDE imagery, themes and motifs and their origins was neatly and comprehensively done. Another movie where i get the feeling that the writer and director have been there and done that, then shown us.worth a watch.

This movie tries to bill itself as a sci-fi survivor story, but just can't quite keep the charade going. First and foremost this film is a ponderous relationship drama. In fact, I'd argue it's a melodrama. The main character is an aloof, disconnected slacker with no more attractive qualities than his swarthy, ill shaven, casually dressed actor can bring by default. His girlfriend Maya is a needling, immature, inconsistent, over-emotional fountain of simultaneous boredom and annoyance.There is nothing to like here. The progression is simultaneously flat and instantaneous, with no actual payoff. The entire premise of the movie is thrown out in its last seconds as an elaborate symbolic representation of the characters' relationship struggle.If you enjoy sniffing your own farts and think that it's particularly engaging to point out the symbolic nature of the static on the television screen over the character's left shoulder while they try to eat pasta from an upside-down fork, this is the film for you.If you want something that isn't trying to be an over-pretentious melodrama, look elsewhere.

OK, so big spoiler here. Note the disjointed time lines. Note the different people (at the end) saying the exact same lines other characters said earlier, creating a repetition of "get a job", "pussy", "coward"... etc. Note the "end" of the so-called sci-fi plot where Maya entwines her finger around Cole's ring finger, which jumps directly to him in a clean hospital bed with Maya entwining her finger around Cole's ring finger.Does anyone else see that the so-called sci-fi part was actually Cole's death bed subconscious dreaming a disjointed time line? As in, can you say it, dream? That Michael did actually shoot Cole (think of this (the end) as the "beginning" of the movie, and the first lines of the movie were about "The Light"..as in go to the light? Cole's subconscious dreams of the aliens are imagined from the Tabloid suggestion of a near miss comet. There are no aliens, yes he and Maya were together in real life and his death bed subconscious dreams about the past come in ever increasing disjointed fashion and ever increasing fantastical imaginings. Cole's dying. Maya and the baby (and the rest of the world) are just fine.What this movie is about is a prolonged stream of consciousness (or unconsciousness) of a dying man who is a guilt ridden loser. The reason the sci-fi plot is essentially absent is because it is....except in the dying man's disjointed imagination. Why did I give it such a high mark? Because it obviously fooled everyone. Note the dream-like sequences, landscape, surreal scenes and above all that the sci-fi stuff was a "rip off" (as one critic noted) of other sci-fi movies. Of course it was a rip off, it was what was in Cole's head. Cole actually subconsciously wanted the end of the world, like he wanted the end of his life, so the suggestion of the Tabloid comet was enough to set off his "what if" scenario. Based on this interpretation, with clues everywhere, the movie was very good indeed. Watch it with this interpretation in mind and you'll see it.