what a shame


almost a good movie. Relied way too much on sci-fi, crazy tech that's probably a thousand years away. Yet we're supposed to believe that a war-torn dictatorship created it?

Others have mentioned the A-Team moment where from junk parts Dr. Scientist creates an entire new class of weapons (and matter).

Then the cliche from Independence Day, Battle LA, I-Robot et al: Take out the central HQ and all the deployed forces instantly shut down and explode.

It was really well made and I loved the desperate feel, but could have used a story tweak early on in the writing process. Needed a mentor.

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I see your point BUT...

1. Clyne is established as an expert in optics etc in his lab.
2. I do not know Moldova very well, but I know research institutes in Belarus (not far away) are very well resourced. Indeed, I saw a research seminar on imaging thought patterns by a Belorussian research team, very simple (can you detect the brain patters when looking at single colours)
3. The idea of creating a 3D printed weapon using a super cooled condensed matter state then charging it as a sort of super-conducting apparition, connected to a disembodied nervous system stripped from dead bodies was cool...but I am easily pleased, so sue me! It also makes sense that the apparitions needed to be connected to the disembodied nervous system to work. If you are being picky, the major problem is that the Bose-Einstein condensate is not very stable so the apparitions ability to travel great distances seems far fetched and how were the impulses from the brain transmitted to them? But it is a movie...
4. Remember the troops were deployed with the DARPA gadgets he was building, so there would be spare parts lying around.
5. I am a very bad scientist, but I reckon I could have made a pretty good plasma gun like theirs from the arc welder in my garage, iron fillings and some butane, probably an even better one if I had a inert gas welder, it did not seem overly stupid.

Other than "The Expanse" tv show, I cringe at almost every Sci Fi movie/tv series I watch, this one made me smile, so it did a good job, I might even like it better than Edge of Tomorrow, which I also enjoyed a lot.

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Didn't this movie take place in the future? I thought they mentioned in the beginning it was sometime after WWIII.

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Didn't this movie take place in the future? I thought they mentioned in the beginning it was sometime after WWIII.


Pretty sure it was Clyne reciting the Einstein quote, something like: "I know not what weapons will be used to fight WW III, but WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones"

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INDEPENDENCE DAY: 5/10
SPECTRAL: 1/10
BATTLE L.A.: 0/10

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