Parallel

Parallel

Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe and realizes the multiverse gates hold the key to releasing her grief or trapping her forever.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 88 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Thrillers
  • Stars: Aldis Hodge, Edwin Hodge, Danielle Deadwyler
  • Director: Kourosh Ahari
 Comments
  • justahunch-70549 - 29 June 2024
    The movie is awful, but the house is fabulous!
    I review a lot of films, but some I skip as they are just not interesting enough, but I thought I'd give this bad boy a shot. This is a really bad, incomprehensible horror film. I guess it's a horror film though I suppose time traveling would be more a more accurate description, but perhaps being in the wrong place at the same time is more accurate, though I am not sure that sentence makes any sense, but then neither does the movie. I don't know. It's a mess and nothing is more spectacularly bad the the female lead's instant acceptance to the strangeness she facing. A hodgepodge of people wandering in and out of the woods in different dimensions or universes or something. The cast is good, but the writing is something that no performer could overcome. There are only three actors in this, Danielle Deadwyler, Aldis Hodge & Edwin Hodge and they try hard, but their efforts are in vain. Good cinematography and for what it's worth, I've seen worse.
  • Ithilfaen - 22 March 2024
    Nothing here that hasn't been done better by Coherence
    First, let's not kid ourselves, Danielle Deadwyler carries the movie. If the depth of this cloying wordy script was left to the Hodges brothers, it would be a puddle.

    The budget is not a problem so much as the acting of 2/3 of the cast but then they wrote themselves a movie so they weren't going to cast capable actors. They probably shouldn't have cast Deadwyler though because she acts circles around them.

    Unfortunately that's really not enough to save it. The over the top melodrama was already enough to bury the concept but they had so little confidence in the audience that they have to describe everything, every moral choice, every option and it gets terribly boring.

    If you liked this, check out Coherence. It will blow your mind.