Normally in my reviews I would dive into the acting, performances, important moments, characters and other things. Unfortunately, this is improvised so all of these reactions just happened with a very loose storyline attached. They even had a writer as one of the characters who helped keep people on the right track in case the improvisation got a little too lose. Because of that, there isn't a lot to talk about in that regard. I am glad the actors had enough control to not speak over each other, because having experience in improv sometimes egos take control and one actor wants to steal a bit more spotlight.
Over halfway through the film and we still don't really have a main character. It's actually pretty unusual, we don't really have anyone to root for, and basically only the older woman with the ketamine to root against because we saw her add the drug to a drink. I've been to parties where people decided to up the ante and sample some special K, and judging by how they acted, I'm glad I didn't partake. Animal tranquilizers are not for me. But after long enough, they kind of establish the blonde girl (as stated in the first post) is the main judging by how she's the one figuring out what is going on.
To me, this film was a little frustrating. A couple things happened along the way, and they sort of almost figured out whatever was going on, but it wasn't until about an hour in that something actually happened and the two parallel groups realized they interacted before. And then, everything really goes off the rails when they start breaking apart and realizing they're not from each others' realities. Everyone's all messed up like they came off the jumble scramble, and blonde girl is trying to figure out how to put it all back together. I wanted to call her Blondie but I used that nickname for the last week.
It was amusing to see everyone react so crazily to the mixup, the scenes of her walking down the road and seeing all the different versions of everyone was a good payoff. To me it seems a little offputting that the main girl just decided to bail on every reality she encountered until she found a friendly one, and then bludgeoned that reality's version of herself. It's not quite like Triangle where she killed herself, so the jig was up when that reality's her called to warn her reality's boyfriend about the trespassing girl. With the comet gone, there are now two versions of her living in that timeline, and who knows what would happen. We also wonder what happened to the other realities, they were just stuck like that, in a big reality washing machine that spun everything around and spat them out randomly.
I was not a fan of the director's choice on breaking scenes on a cut to black, it got old quickly. It felt like a gimmick or trick or something that didn't need to be repeated time and time again. To be frank, and I know it was super low budget, but it felt like this could have been a lot shorter. There were a lot of scenes where characters were just rabbling with one another and we couldn't make heads or tails of it, and it didn't progress the story or do anything besides possibly demonstrating that tensions were mounting. We get it, it's confusing. Did we need an extra 20 minutes of them feeling around in the dark to try to figure out what was going on, and then the little digression about them trying to comprehend alternate realities and all that? It was an honest effort to try to bridge the gap, but it fell flat for me, with them half-heartedly explaining the hard science concepts they were on about.
I would have been happy if this were an hour. I didn't dislike it in its entirety, I just felt like there was too much of nothing and then suddenly 25 minutes of everything. And then, a minute of "oh they were already going through this at the beginning, did you notice?" And stapled to that was a bunch of dinner party drama that was superfluous after a while. The director had the right approach - less is more. Don't show much in the way of violence, or anything beyond loud knocking, and just let the story and tension do the work. But then when it came to putting all those people together with their drama, it was suddenly "we have to know the story of this dude's infidelity or this drunk failed actor's deal".
6/10. I was not on the edge of my seat while watching it. It had a good idea and then decided "let's take this good idea and then give it to a bunch of people who have no idea what's going on and maybe they'll spin straw into gold." If this were redone by good actors with a good writer, then we're talking.
