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Ash is a science fiction film that is a
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a taught Thriller on a planet where a
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young woman awakes from her Slumber and
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finds herself in an awful situation
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Eliza Gonzalez plays Ria wakes up on a
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spaceship where something horrific
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happened but she doesn't know what
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the crew members are all dead her
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friends the planet is uh covered in
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ash what is happening she does not know
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foot she begins to unravel this mystery
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of what happened to her as her memory
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slowly starts to to return she has
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memories of all of the other uh
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characters on the Starship played by
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Joseph Gordon levit Bula Cole Kate
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Elliott round out the cast um uh but she
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doesn't know who's responsible for
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killing the crew members is it some
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creature is it one of the other crew
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members that killed everyone she's
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trying to unravel this mystery while
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also uh Brian played by Aaron Paul says
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hey we got to go we don't don't have
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time to solve this mystery we have to
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get out of here focus on everything we
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need to do to get the hell off this
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planet where horrible things have
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happened this movie is directed by
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flying Lotus yes that's his name it's
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screened at the South by Southwest film
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festival and it is a Cheesy looking
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sci-fi with um digital effects that are
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very kind of uh vary from passable to
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just plain bad where uh uh Isa excuse me
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it's Isa Gonzalez plays Ria is I just
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don't believe her she's way too
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attractive to be an astronaut set on
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Space who's she she it seems to be in
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her performance she tried to channel s
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Weaver and failed miserably and the
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movie Just from the production design to
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the makeup effects to these digital
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effects looked like it was
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um uh aspiring to be much bigger than
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allow and even at a tight running time
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of 95 minutes this thriller sci-fi
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fails it fails to to uh take flight
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even though it has all the elements
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mystery whatnot the the aliens some
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aliens that are possessing members of
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the crew um a mystery that unfolds as it
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goes uh we don't know um even if what
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she's seeing is reality in the end this
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thing uh fails miserably I'd say a four
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or five out of ten um one thing this
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reminds me of is about 10 other
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video games with the same plot where an
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astronaut someone in space wakes up to
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some horror show and has to figure out
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what's going on that's the plot of about
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10 different video games probably a lot
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more so it was very much felt like this
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was a video game where I was not
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invested because you get to know the
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characters in flashbacks or memories
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from Ria so I cannot recommend this it's
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a it's just very weak and by the end
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just um overstayed it's welcome so this
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movie is a pass for me Allan you did not
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see it I did not see it but I have a
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question is this a science fiction
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because it takes place in space or does
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it have something to say about the
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current condition of humanity it really
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has nothing to say about the current
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condition of humanity it just is a this
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is literally the full motion video cut
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to a video game and everything is Task
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related when it comes to the plot it's
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like I've got to get this I've got to
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get the computer up I've got to find
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this thing it's like this somebody
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played a video game and said oh that
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would make a good movie but it's very
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generic in all aspects and the
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production design is so cheap I'm
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talking about the sets in the ship look
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really cheap it doesn't look
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otherworldly it's not convincing even as
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a vessel space vessel on a planet so uh
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hard pass for me on ash yeah one thing I
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learned from the recent Rescue of the
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astronauts that when you're in space
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your hair is supposed to go go in so
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many different directions well there's
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gravity in this so they didn't worry
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about that that would been cooler to
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have just their hair kind of sticking
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so it's a pass folks it's a pass
