Atlantis Down (2010)

The Age of Commercialism

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I made the stupid mistaken of watching this film just over a month ago and I still can't believe how awful and very plastic this film really is! The graphics were clearly very low budget and very poorly done. The most notable example being the unconvincing-looking shuttle at the start of the film that looked like the graphics came from a PlayStation 1 game! The first part of the film was the best by far; when the crew was in the badly-animated shuttle and most of the crew were then transported to some sort of weird world that looks like a barren forest on Earth. From that moment on, the film started to go down hill! Some of the worst parts for me were the ridiculously absurd character deaths that made absolutely no sense whatsoever! Most of the crew had visions/flashbacks about their greatest fears that eventually killed them off! On the IMDb description for this film, it says "Its crew is on a routine mission, conducting experiments – little do they know – they are the experiment." Unfortunately, it does go into this any further because it does not tell us the reason why they are being experimented on! What I want to know "why or how?" because this messy plot has had me completely stumped!!! When I first bought this film, I was hoping for them to crash-land onto some sort of strange planet full of aliens but there is absolutely nothing to do with aliens, alien spaceships or alien worlds of any kind. The only thing about it that was even remotely alien was the monster that killed Pete in his vision and even then (due to the lazy CGI of this film) it only showed its luminous eyes! If you bought this film expecting it to be a Star Wars/Star Trek type film, you were wrong, this film is anything but that!!! The most misleading thing about this film is that the DVD cover shows the space shuttle crash-landing onto some sort ruined city and on the back cover there were alien spaceships; since when did this happen in the film? Can someone please tell me?!? This film was nothing short of absurd and illogical. The storyline was random and did not make any sense, the plot was totally unrealistic and incredibly hard to swallow and film as a whole was really weird and very surreal! I mean, this is like some sort of sci-fi version of Alice In Wonderland, but a lot more grim and much grittier! Except, at the end of Alice In Wonderland, Alice wakes up to find that the whole film was a dream, but in this film there was utterly no logical conclusion to the story whatsoever! I mean, I could write a better sci-fi film than this because I have got some pretty good ideas in mind that certainly far surpass the plastic plot of this travesty of a film! It is clear to me that whoever originally wrote this film must have exceptionally poor taste and that the script to this was probably the loss leader to a sci-fi film writing competition! The only thing I liked about it was the characters because they seemed interesting at first! But, sadly, by the end of the film, you realise that the characters turned to be really shallow due to the lack of character development!!! Put the characters in a completely different (and not to mention better!) storyline, then this would have been a great film! The other thing that I would that I would like to mention is that all the locations (apart from the one at the start when the crew is in the space shuttle) were plain, boring and generic, (e.g. the woodland scenes, a barn and some sort of big house with a long staircase), the acting was wooden and very bad and the directing was poor.On the cover, it says that it is " A must see film ", which is completely ironic because it is a truly terrible film to say the least!!! I do not recommend watching this pathetic and horrible film because it I think that it is the absolute worst sci-fi film I have ever watched, if not then the worst film I have watched ever because it is disturbing from start to finish, it has an embarrassing car-crash quality to it and it will almost certainly spoil you day! It is sad to think that there so many positive reviews of this film there are on here and that so many people actually think that this is a great film because it is a complete and utter catastrophe of a film!!!!! I was lucky that I only paid £5 for this bad excuse for a film. Do not make the same mistake I did and do not waste your money on this disaster of a film, just spend it on something better like a mars bar!!!!!!! Do not waste your time watching this atrocious film, just watch a real sci-fi film instead!!!!!!! Anything, anything but this horrible film!!!

Atlantis Down is definitely not a typical sci-fi thriller. The chemistry of the cast and their diverse level of experience keep things fresh. The cinematography and the visual effects are very nice, the direction is clever and clean.The plot is super complex but keeps you nailed to your seat and that is what's important for a thriller. The characters have their own specific arc, but you buy into them and their journeys and root for them as the story unfolds. There are twists that leave you pleasantly surprised and the members of the shuttle Atlantis face threats while working through their personal issues.Michael Rooker does not get a ton of screen time but is really great in it. This movie would have not been worth the watch without him, his performance really makes it unique. Yeah I am a fan-girl but there is nothing I can do about that! ;-) I would not recommend it for kids because of a scene where a priest rapes a young girl. There is no nudity, or any vulgarity at all (no F words either) but the scene was shot and edited so well that you don't need to see anything to be hit by the tragedy that is going on on screen. I'd say this movie is best suited for the general 17-35 crowd.

Atlantis down is a movie directed by the Italian Max Bartoli. In this movie you can see the trauma of childhood surfacing into consciousness under the form of a bursting Flash Back experiences with the possession of the Ego. The wound gets infected and takes, the one affected, away from the cohesiveness of the group destroying the individual who is unable to connect with the other members who frantically attempt to rescue him/her from the inevitable self-destruction. The individual [ who in turn is affected by the unresolved childhood wound] has an inner battle between the powerful emotional memory from the wound and the impotent Ego. This movie has also placed in evidence the importance of where the series of the events take place: the spaceship in the space symbolized an attempt to escape the Mother Earth while exploring galaxies; the unexpected landing in the nowhere zone in the Earth symbolizes the necessary return to the Earth in order to attempt to heal the wound but as often it can occurs when wound erupts powerfully in the consciousness, the individual and group have lost the connection with the real world. They are lost in the wood, they search for human life, they are separated from civilization while desperately longing for it! This can in the analytic psychology of C.G. JUNG can be seeing as the desperate journey of a single individual with his different parts represented by the others with the immersion in to the unconscious risking the loss of consciousness. The emotions from early wounds are destroying the Ego, which is represented by the main character of the movie who is in a constant dialogue with the other people representing different parts of self. The fragmentation and the weakness of the Ego bring the destruction of the individual and the separation from the world. The story, the visuals, the acting and the sound track are of very good quality and take you into the drama of human kind, where isolation, loss, fragmentation , dissolution, desperation are experienced vividly Erminia Scarcella, MD President of Jung Society of Washington DC

I attended the premiere of Atlantis Down in Portsmouth, VA and liked it so well, I went back to see it a couple more times. The story was riveting! It kept me on the edge of my seat. When watching a sci-fi thriller, one of the things I take pride in as an audience member is being able to figure out the twist. In the case of Atlantis Down, I wasn't able to see it coming. I won't spoil it, but it was exciting, held my interest through repeat screenings, and engaged me emotionally. I cried each time I saw it during a scene showcasing actress Mae Flores. And scenes with veteran Hollywood star, Michael Rooker, were intense; you can't take your eyes off him when he is on screen. The direction was really tight and the film looked great! The film oozed with intelligence and was very clever, philosophical at times and thought provoking. In my humble opinion, this is what independent filmmaking should be; something that makes you think and pushes the envelope of what you can do creatively on a small budget while giving the director the opportunity to introduce new talent to the world. I'll go see anything this team makes in the future.