Occupants (2015)
3/10
Alternative Banality
24 September 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Love how in the review section of IMDb there is always at least one person that says of a little known about budget indie movie "This is the worst film I have ever seen!"

For me this isn't one of those. It is bloody close but not the very worst I have ever seen. I have found even with bad films that I have watched down the years there is usually something that keeps you watching until the end, and this was no different. I was actually interested in how this was going to pan out.

A young film-maker and her husband are going to make diary documentary about their super-vegan diet. Not long into the regime as she is inspecting the footage shot from the cameras dotted about the apartment she notices she has captured images of another couple going about their daily business in a slightly different version of their apartment. The couple are also happen to be a slightly different versions of themselves.

Mrs film-maker's reaction? Well you'd think she had discovered that her neighbours had been secretly using her bins outside of her home or some other minor transgression. Her husband's reaction although a little more concerned than she is, he isn't exactly making a fuss seeing that they have somehow opened up a portal to another reality.

The needless to say the acting, dialogue nor plot improve as the film goes on. The characters do all the standard wrong things you'd expect of the genre so no respite there either.

Moral issues of eavesdropping and messing about with a alternate reality time line that without due consideration to the effect it might have barely gets a mention.

Basically a good idea ruined by poor execution.
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