This was an excellent transhumanist sci-fi venture. For the most part subtle, controlled performances by the four protagonists. The cold, sterile tone throughout is fitting given the ethically and racially charged content. It might be tempting for some reviewers to dismiss the race issues in the film as a status quo 'bad rich whites exploit minorities' trope, but the nuanced emotional turmoil portrayed by the leads is enough to discount this claim. It's not just a movie about the evils of capitalism and modern slavery; it's about mortality, cowardice, sacrifice, empathy and love. Other reviews have also made comparisons to Gattica, but as a hard-sci-fi nerd, I have to say that this movie made Gattica look like a cheap, chintzy romance. My only qualm was that one of the supporting cast plays a somewhat hokey character, but this slightly off-kilter performance is negligible.
I rate the film 8/10 because in its own way, Transfer was nearly as good as the best sci-fi movies in recent memory. Granted, it doesn't have the aesthetically thrilling special effects -not to mention the warm, fuzzy nostalgic franchise value- of J. J. Abrams' Star Trek, nor the romance of Another Earth, nor the starry glamour of Melancholia, nor the gritty horror of Looper... but Transfer does things differently and in the end, the low-budget realism of this movie takes the effect of a slowly burrowing sort of psychological foreboding more akin to Primer. What it lacks in action, it makes up for in philosophy. Of course, it's not a 10/10 dynamite classic of Blade Runner-esque or, say, The Empire Strikes Back calibre, but it is good.
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I rate the film 8/10 because in its own way, Transfer was nearly as good as the best sci-fi movies in recent memory. Granted, it doesn't have the aesthetically thrilling special effects -not to mention the warm, fuzzy nostalgic franchise value- of J. J. Abrams' Star Trek, nor the romance of Another Earth, nor the starry glamour of Melancholia, nor the gritty horror of Looper... but Transfer does things differently and in the end, the low-budget realism of this movie takes the effect of a slowly burrowing sort of psychological foreboding more akin to Primer. What it lacks in action, it makes up for in philosophy. Of course, it's not a 10/10 dynamite classic of Blade Runner-esque or, say, The Empire Strikes Back calibre, but it is good.
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