Review: 2067 (2020)

Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ryan Kwanten

Budget: Unknown

Directed By: Seth Larney

Well first up this film came under the heading of horror, no idea why. There certain some tense and dire themes in this movie but nothing scary or jump worthy.

Secondly it was made in Australia I also can't find any budgets anywhere. Also seen this listed as Chronicle 2067 in some places too.

So we have some actors i've never seen before in anything else, Kodi (Ethan) who seems to do watery eyed whining pretty well. Then there's Ryan (Jude) who seems like a cut price Christian Bale with about half the acting skill.

In fact Ryan is pretty much the stand out actor in this piece with more facial expression than anyone put together.

The plot is pretty nonsensical Time travel rubbish that DOES come together but only at the VERY end of the film which you are forced to sit through despite pretty much having worked out whats going on as soon as Ethan is sent to the future. It very terminator dialogue heavy with fate this and fate that being thrown in every time they talk about changing something.

So the actual film plot, in 2067 all plants have died out the earth is low on oxygen and pretty much everywhere is dark/dead. Except an Australian city with an underground nuclear generator. There's 'fake' air being doled out to people but some people's lungs can't seem to process it well and people are just dying off.

Ethan who initially seems like a nobody is in fact the son of a scientist who disappeared years back He gets called in to be shown an experiment his dad was working on, like a time tunnel affair. Ethans father also rammed some kind of techy bracelet on his son on his 8th birthday.

Anyway thing conspire that Ethan needs to sent to the future because someone there asked for him to be sent. Like a total idiot in a world he's not used to Ethan blunders about. He discovers, somehow, his own skeleton hundreds of years dead shot in the head.

Anyway after eating some poisonous hallucinogenic berries, Ethan is dying when cut price Bale also fazzams out of the past to save him with an anti-poison jab. A little later on Jude pulls a gun and it's pretty obvious that this is where dead Ethan gets his extra air vent from if you know ANYTHING about foreshadowing in movies.

Anyway they have to fix the nuclear generator in 24xx because it'll nuke them if they don't. The plot descends timey wimey wibbly wobbly guff from here on even more than had before. 0% of it is Ethan screaming all teary eyed that he's already dead so what does it matter and Jude spouting about fate every 5 five minutes.

Something happens to Jude near the end which is like WHY did that need to happen?

The plot is the weakest part of this film with a lot of nonsensical things thrown in too, a guff plot with Ethan's wife that they use to move the story along at points too that coupled with the ending is almost totally pointless.

It's not bad but it's not good either, it's a little overlong too at 114 minutes long i'm no editor but I could cut 20 minutes of this and still get the point across. THN awards 2067 (2020) 2 out of 5 stars.