Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Brilliant and touching

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

This is a very hard review because i loved the movie, its an 6 to me but they ripped everything out of other movies. i give it a 7 overall but a 1 for originality The layout of the scenes the cinematography everything made me feel like the only thing that would have made it more real would have been neil degrasse tyson and knowing it came right out of an episode of Nova. except the CGI; that wasnt blended with the film very well, but it was a lot better than any SyFy channel movie. acting made me feel like they were actually interviewing real people for most of the movie, there were scenes that brought back the cheap movie feel but the actors did an A+ job on making the viewer feel like it was all real interviews. the wife even asked what i was watching and if the interviews were real.so i will get right down to it..... i am shocked and appauled that the film makers have not been sued and forced to remove the movie. why you ask it only mimics other movies... no it downright completely rips them off. here are at least 5 films i can see it directly steals plot, audio, scenes and so much more contact from. 1) Contact 1997 - fantastic film with jodi foster. Beyond stole, the frequency waves that were being transmitted by the aliens, all the way down to almost being the same audio used in the movie (it is different though). and they dont even hide it. Blacking out and waking up after going through the worm hole on another planet. Contact used a sunny beach, beyond used what looks like the cliffs in Scotland. Contact had jodi foster meeting her father on said planet, a pleasing way for the alien race to meet earthlings. Beyond used another astronaut that was thought to be dead. The alien in Beyond said it was there time, as did Contact, but also said they werent ready for everything. they were only letting earth know someone was out there. they even had them leave the scene in the exact same way!! The Alien left in a blurry scenematic 2) Interstellar 2014 - another fantastic film with Matthew McConaughey. The landing ship clip when they sent people to Earth 2 looks exactly like the ones when landing on Interstellar. the ships rocks twist into landing "legs" The wormhole scenes about light and particles coming into the ship, straight out of Interstellar. The planet the synth landed on could easily be seen as a total rip off of the planets that Matthew McConaughey and crew landed on. 3 & 4)Arrival 2016 and possibly The Day The Earth Stood Still 2008 the balls of alien material how they appeared all over the earth and the way they moved and flowed and appeared liquefied is right out of The Day The Earth Stood. the way the military gathered around the spheres and fired on them can be seen in many movies but made me immediately feel like they stole it from The Day The Earth Stood and Arrival. 5) Another Earth 2011 w/ Brit Marling - in Beyond other planets formed out of no where, well, they claimed the debris left over after the alien material left formed the planets, but the key rip off here is another earth appeared right beside our earth, this time though it was empty.That and the blatant rip offs from Contact where the two biggest most frustrating and cheap shots within the movie, anyone involved in this movie and anyone who has seen it should have immediately spotted this and the makers and actors should have been ashamed they made such a rip off movie. yes we can say well the Scary Movie series did the same thing, but it was done willfully and they didnt hide it. The film doesnt admit it, tries hiding it by changing certain things, and any scifi lover should be calling this filmaker out as a complete and total fraud with absolutely no vision.over all i kept my eyes on the tv, it was a great movie, worth watching, not becuase it in and of itself was good, it wasnt but because they blended so many scenes from other scifi movies in to make this one. But it is really, really hard not to sit there and say its not a complete rip off of multiple movies.

Just Really Good Movie To Watch...............................

Ok directors and producers, get this: I am not the only one who is sick and tired as well as sea-sick from your constant abuse of jiggly camera work. Was there no tripod in the budget? But of course there is something different happening here. This jiggle camera work was initially pushed in the 80s for advertisements to make them look like documentaries, as well as to keep the observer's brain busy trying to constantly correct the undue motion of the camera. This allows to sell anything and brainwash people into consuming yet another thing they do not need, or get them to vote for the worst possible political candidate, etc. I sampled the entire length and the jiggling never stops. This tells me you are trying to sell junk. I refuse it.

Not truly being a writer, director or producer, our CGI expert had to look elsewhere for inspiration. Other than the film actually having a surprise ending not expected from the trailer/preview, I learned a great deal from the 2 minute or so trailer than watching the 100+ minute movie. The movie starts off with what looks like the end of the world, and we're then treated to a boring docudrama. Our multitasking director/writer appears to have been influenced by a combination of Contact and Arrival, along with bits of other Sci-Fi media. The sound that the Void is emitting is remarkably like the sounds heard in Contact related to their alien communication. The gyroscope-like vehicle used in Contact is very similar to the gyro look of Beyond's probes. The arrival of multiple orbs in Beyond is like the multiple spaceships appearing in Arrival. Even the appearance of Beyond's aliens alludes to the inkiness of Arrival's aliens. And the "save earth" theme here is similar to both Arrival and Contact.Other than shear curiosity, I wouldn't have bothered streaming this movie from my local library's agent. The trailer led me to believe there was a disaster caused by aliens, where in fact aliens apparently saved humanity (only surprise of movie). Wasn't clearly explained what actually blew up, causing all the debris to crash into satellites, etc. Was it the moon's destruction? Did the aliens cause this as well, just to give them an opportunity to "save" humanity?The writer/director/etc. should stick to CGI and creating other visual effects and leave the rest of movie making to others with the professional know-how!!