Helix (2015)

Too much of everything

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The film takes place sometime in the near future. Technology has advanced and so has global warming, so much that it has devastated the city of Vancouver, now walled off into sectors. Aiden Magnusson (Mark Petey) a contractor cop from sector 2 apprehends a criminal and is now a quiet hero being promoted to sector 1.Crimes are solved using DNA. They can spray a home and find out who was there from DNA traces. Everyone has their DNA on file since birth. Aiden detects there is something wrong with the system and causes issues.The film moved slow. Action scenes lacked action. Mark Petey has no stage presence. They needed a real "hero" for that role, someone who could really fight. Eric Petey wrote and directed the film and by casting what I suspect is his brother into the lead, he killed his project.Guide: f-word. Nudity (Lara Doucette, Mark Petey)

is it a spoiler to say that almost every character in this movies is just way too angry or was that just me?. character depth... the movie doesn't explain why either. is that just suppose to be how society evolved? the beginning dialog is pretty weak. redo/add a few parts and this could actually be a decent movie... the characters say very little useful info if anything at all. congrats you made cops look really unintelligent and corrupt? the beginning has lots of questions most don't get answered.. in the middle people start dying and the magic computer solves all the murders... at the end, the main character comes back after running away but then says he's not staying LOL.. oh and we never find out who's killing people and why. there were 2 scenes with some sonic pulse gun but i guess they don't give them to all the cops, or maybe it's just Wednesday's that they get them (there and gone - without a trace). IDK pretty weak probably should have changed those 2 scenes to mesh with the rest of the movie (knives only maybe? technology?).i can't imagine this type of movie being easy to make without lots of money so props for that! the actors and actresses looked like they did the best they could with the weak-sauce lines they were fed (beginning was kinda rough). probably the main thing i didn't like was how as new characters were introduced each demonstrated 1 kind of personality(inpatient, bad at their job, and angry). there's just so many unanswered questions. The story is a little Skippy with a few pointless encounters. who was the bad guy? the story line needed just a little more thought or something to make it all fit/flow together..pretty much only managed to watch the whole thing because of the cute Asian(Elfina Luk). she should be in all the movies, seriously why isn't she? tell me now...

Good performances (with one exception*, noted below), good story, good staging, good photography, and good dialogue (again with one exception*, noted below), this could have been a 7/10 or 8/10 movie but for that one exception: *Marc Petey (as Aiden Magnusson) and his (lack) of dialogue. It would be reasonable (I think) to expect Eric Petey to write some decent dialogue for Marc, and get him to deliver, but no. He mostly has none, and what he does have is mostly unremarkable. It's a shame, because that single performance (by the main character) drags down the entire movie.

This is truly an appalling movie: there is nothing to recommend or redeem it in the slightest. The acting is so wooden it makes Pinocchio look like an Oscar- winning character actor, the plot is so confusing that you don't know what the main character is doing, or why, and even understand how it ends and the scenes are basic to say the least. It's set in a future where a presumably dangerous city (devoid of any transport) is policed by unarmed cops, and all the criminals are equally unarmed. Characters appear and disappear throughout the 98 mins of cinematic torture without rhyme nor reason: distinctive clothing or characteristics make no difference to whether they stay or not and if they make any impact on the story. I've no idea how anyone can score it anything better than awful: it's certainly the worst movie I've actually sit through as opposed to walking out before the end, though I should have done to save my time.