wdavidbrown
The Gateway ("Alpha Gateway" on the US Amazon site) is a surprisingly good and thought provoking film that even those who do not normally watch science fiction should find enjoyable. The principle is that at any time we live in only one of perhaps many parallel worlds, some nearly identical to ours and others vastly different. There have been a number of films exploring similar issues in time travel, which open a whole new "world" of possibilities, as does this film in its approach to parallel universes. We won't spoil it here...it is simply too good. But watch for the surprise last few seconds which are so strong that one must ask if a follow up might be on the way.
eismoc
When reaching to the middle of it, it seems like the writer was highly driven by those parts in "Interstellar" and "Source Code" when the future meets the past in the present. The story is even worse when trying to add a touch of drama through out all of it, similar to that from "Another Earth". At some points the story tries to capture a little from "Star Trek", "Mirrors", "Back into the Future", "Moon", and so on. Simpy put: the story is filled, to the confusion point, with little bits of great movies. Add to this the lack of any visual effects, the weak (and sometimes embarrassingly weak) acting skills, and the boring-to-death, pointless conversations. The result is "The Gateway", a movie intended to be a sci-fi, but ended to be a boring joke. I rated it 3/10.
emrssp
The storyline is interesting, but many scenes simply couldn't have happened the way the movie shows it, with the simplicity and lack of consequences shown.
siegenpiebretzke
The skeleton of the plot is really intriguing, and the last bit of the movie is a pretty decent nail-biter, mostly because of a well made musical score. Unfortunately, this movie is plagued with poor acting performances, terrible writing, and many many amateur production mistakes (the sound is AWFUL, and the editing is lethargic with many awkward cuts and even some that look like mistakes). Yes, this a low budget movie but it's not THAT low. An equal quality product could have been made with a quarter of the budget and half the runtime, and leaves me wondering what most of the money was spent on. I would love to see this movie remade at some point, because the sci-fi bedrock of the movie deserves to be explored (nothing groundbreaking but still fun). Better luck next time.
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