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Information
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 104 min.
- Director
- Isaac Ezban
- Genres
- Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rating *
- 5.8
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 61
- Favs
- 1
- Dislikes
- 2
- Favs/checks
- 1.6% (1:61)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:2
Top comments
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Siskoid
The Canadian-made Parallel suffers from not picking a lane, I think. As presented, the premise of a mirror to close alternate realities seems to herald an invasion of "alts" body snatching their reflections, and that could have been very cool. Instead, we quickly move to a quartet whose app company is struggling until they find the mirror in the attic and start using it for their own ends - profit, success, women, catharsis - and it becomes more of a sci-fi comedy. But there's a dark side to these travels, especially when some start to use parallel worlds as playgrounds, seeing their citizens as "unreal". The thriller elements start to build again. And I'm there for all of it - it kept my attention - but it makes too many promises to really feel satisfying at the end. What we end up with in the epilogue is an attempt to do a number of endings, resulting in closing moments that are both corny and puzzling. 1 year 5 months ago