Good Sci-Fi Time Waster
Added 9/3/2008
The settings, special effects, lighting, score, and all the movie magic in Epoch: Evolution is excellent. The filmakers spared no expense. The acting and story, however, are weaker. The story is about a Dr. Rand who is on the run from an organization that killed his wife and is hunting him and his young son. The group thinks that the boy was conceived in an unholy alien union. Meanwhile, strange rock formations are rising from the ground all over the world, and seem to contain alien life forms. Are these "Toruses" good or bad, and do the events escalating toward war between the U.S.,Russia and China have something to do with their appearances?
The film is more a 'what-if' scenario of how the military would react to these events than a clever and deep sci-fi story. Like I said before, the settings are realistic and you see the inside of a Chinese command center, Chinese and Russian sub, the space station, the Torus, and much more. Oh, there is some nudity at the beginning, of German hookers who are hiding Rand. Pointless, but hence the R rating.
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Virgin birth and alien space ships
Added 8/9/2008
This movie seems to be a sequel to one in which a boy
was born ( virgin birth) from interaction with an alien ship/ monolith.
It has aliens, religion and what appears to be 'magic'
technology all wrapped up together with no hard science any where to be found.
A chase move where religious fundamentalist sent an hit
team to take out the boy and his father.
The boy has Jesus like resurrection of the dead powers:
they call him the one from within.
Not the best sci fi film ever:
it seems to be one made with very little
thought just for a mass market.
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war of the worlds with less gore
Added 5/12/2007
This is movie dvd celebrates is 29 month anniversary since it was first released in december of 2004. This movie takes place ten years after the events in the first movie. As the movie starts the main character Dr. Rand wife had been murdered by the evil Gensis and now they are after him and his ten year old alien son. If that were bad enough there is a international conflict between Russia and China. Can doctor randy stop the devestating power of alien life form again but not from one but from two of these giant spiral shaped mountains with and alien ship underneath them. Can he solve the mystery to save the world will foiling the evil Gensis plans to kill him and his son. Find out in the spinetingling conclusion. This movie should be suitable for kids 17 and up due to heavy vioilence, mild gory, occaisional thematic elements, and frequent profanity. If you like this see the prequel epoch. If you by this you might as well get a new copy since the selling price is low under $20 with the shipping fee include because it is somewhat of and old dvd and is not a very high demand for copies of it.
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Epoch Evolution
Added 7/14/2006
Had seen the movie on TV and enjoyed it; decided I wanted a copy so that I could watch it when I wanted to.
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Good But Inconsistent
Added 5/19/2006
A new torus, a giant stone tornado-shaped thing that floats in the air, has surfaced. Oddly, the witnesses don't seem very surprised or awed (probably just bad acting). With the new torus we see a return of some of the characters from the first film including David Keith. He is on the run from a shadowy organization bent on killing him and his son. We get a little history as to what has gone on since the first movie.
As the research begins on the new torus a third one shows up. Now there are two floating about and they are putting out mysterious and opposed waves. It seems like a battle between good and evil but who can tell with ancient floating alien rock things? In the end the movie is much like the first as an ancient mystery is unraveled and we get glimpses of the purpose of the toruses.
Decent special effects and a good cast are the pluses in this film. Some of the torus history does not mesh with what was learned in the first movie and there is even evidence that humans knew about the toruses fairly recently (last couple of thousand years) even though in the first movie the torus had been buried since before the creation of life. While I prefer the first movie this one is a decent sequel and not just a cheap follow-up.
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