Screen Daily by Wendy Ide
With its looming, angular and alienating architecture, and thoroughly considered technological and ethical future landscape, this is a phenomenal and inventive piece of world-building from Prague-based director Robert Hloz.
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Director
Robert Hloz
Cast
Andrea Mohylová,
Matěj Hádek,
Václav Neužil,
Milan Ondrík,
Karel Dobrý,
Agáta Červinková
Genre
Science Fiction
In the near future, an innovative technology called Restore Point resuscitates them, provided the person has routinely backed up their brain data every 48 hours. But when the scientist who developed the technology is murdered, it is found that he, of all people, doesn’t have a valid recovery point with which to be revived.
Screen Daily by Wendy Ide
With its looming, angular and alienating architecture, and thoroughly considered technological and ethical future landscape, this is a phenomenal and inventive piece of world-building from Prague-based director Robert Hloz.
Variety by Guy Lodge
Marrying glossy mainstream genre aesthetics to probing, elaborately conceived speculative storytelling, this is a notably ambitious and auspiciously well-realized first feature for Hloz: the kind that appears to be flaunting his capabilities for even bigger international and Hollywood assignments.
The Film Verdict by Stephen Dalton
Glossy and gripping, Czech director Robert Hloz’s ambitious and impressively polished debut feature boasts high-calibre production design and a dense, twist-heavy, techno-dystopian plot that feels at times like an extended episode of the cult Netflix series Black Mirror.
Collider by Marco Vito Oddo
It offers a solid police investigation story though fails to use its unique sci-fi world as well as it could have.
Film Threat by Calan Panchoo
It is a film that, while intelligently conceived, is in no way its own. As such, it struggles to connect with the viewer in any way beyond its aesthetics. This is, in a word, a cold film, lacking the vital spark of originality, the warmth of humanity.
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