Warning – Great Concepts
Director: Agata Alexander
Writer: Agata Alexander, Jason Kaye, Rob Michaelson (Screenplay)
Starring: Annabelle Wallis, Alice Eve, Kylie Bunbury, Thomas Janes, Alex Pettyfer, Garanace Marillier, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rupert Everett
Plot: The meaning of life explored through multiple interconnected lives set in the near future.
Runtime: 1 Hour 25 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Warning starts after an incident in space, which will change the lives of people on Earth, with a robot engineer needing to make a difficult decision about an older robot, Claire (Eve) who has lived through her ‘God’ system until it stops working and Anna (Bunbury) who finds herself being stalked by a figure in her everyday life.
We see how Nina (Wallis) gets to meet her boyfriend Liam (Pettyfer) family, which will see the series of small sci-fi stories that will put the bigger question about faith and science.
Thoughts on Warning
Thoughts – Warning is a series of interconnected sci-fi stories connected by an incident in space, each stories will get its own moment in the spotlight, with the full-blown science religion discussion in one where Alice Eve shines in. the creepy electronic stalker figure in another, which is the closest the film goes into full horror, with Kylie Bunbury) giving us an excellent performance. Annabelle Wallis and Alex Pettyfer are involved in a story that will ask a bigger life expectation question, one that will put love into the discussion when it comes to what the wealthy could do in the future. Thomas Jane gets the most isolated story, alone, dealing with his character getting a chance to look back at his own life, while facing his own mortality. There is one problem with the stories and that comes from how certain stories will be spliced together with others, jumping into another one, but when we get all the focus on one, which will do, we get the most interesting story, despite the fact we have a series of stories that offer up plenty of bigger questions about faith and science, which will the be closest to a Black Mirror idea we have seen in a while, they could have all been longer though, which will leave some of them not getting enough time to flush out the bigger picture being told.
Signature Entertainment presents Warning on Digital Platforms 25th October
Final Thoughts – Warning is a film with a series of short sci-fi stories that leave you wanting more.
