markkbranson This score is the highest I have awarded a film and this one deserves this score without a doubt. The acting, the camera work, the narrative-- all the elements are clicking here and the only reason I did not give this a 10 is the ending is too ambiguous for me (don't worry, I won't give it away.)The work is post-modern, but with a sci-fi twist to it. The narrative goes back a forth in the relationship between Cole (Richard Danum) and Maya (Gillian MacGregor). The time shifting is the post-modern aspect while the sci-fi emerges when an asteroid about the crash into earth is really an alien attack vessel.Danum and MacGregor are great in this film. I became invested in their relationship and kept my fingers crossed that they would overcome their trials after the truth of the asteroid and their own truths are reveal to one another. I have seen that this film is an "Indie," yet the quality of the acting and camera work belies this title. I have, indeed, reviewed "Indie" films here (recently I just commented on "Scent.") This film simply has too high quality of a look for me to class this work as an "Indie." The talent in front of and behind the camera may not be affiliated with a major studio, but the work certainly has the look of a major production.There are some comments here and elsewhere that fault this film because it doesn't "deliver" on the sci-fi aspect. I conceded there are not creeps here, not action/adventure stuff that those of us in the post "Star Wars" world believe defines sci-fi. But this film has far more important fish to fry so if you really like thoughtful films, high quality films, and films that transcend the usual explosions and/or gore (a la the entire "Alien" product), then take and hour and a half, sit back, dim the lights, and immerse yourself in "Beyond." This film deserves your attention!

Kosh550 This movie is intensely a relationship drama. The marketing of this film was done so egregiously that if you were prepared for a fascinating look into a post alien invasion world and how to stay in a relationship...you would be sorely upset.The truth is that the entire "invasion" is used as a metaphor to help explain the emotions coursing through the protagonist. I'm saddened at the attempt to use Sci-Fi as a ploy to gain attention.The most glaring and obnoxious choice by the creative team is using a T-shirt which appears to have the design of the floating space craft from District 9.But I digress, aside from the blatant attempt to mislead the viewer and the glaring lack of actual science fiction in the film...the acting was superb.If you are able to make it to about the midway mark of the movie then you'll understand. However if you have refused to watch and only wish to move to other more complete films...keep reading. Spoilers ahead:During the course of the flashbacks there is an interaction between the protagonist and the man he saved. This conversation is very revealing and if you remember the first line of the movie and you have some knowledge about Norway then you can begin to piece together the clues left behind at a very alarming rate. It was around here that the movie fell completely apart for me. I realized that the interactions and flashbacks were the main story and everything else was the protagonists imagination. Another clue that was revealed quite early on, how he wanted to keep her in one place and never let her go anywhere with him. Had this been a purely psychological thriller...which it should have been advertised as...I would expand on the many different ways that one concept could be explained or defined by his mind. But we've not time for that. In the end he is shot by the man he's saved. And his flash backs are his minds way of trying to understand and cope with the stress and shock of the situation our protagonist had been placed in. And yes, while in the parking garage the man is dying, we see him in the hospital bed with a strong pulse and his eyes moving in REM sleep.The acting saved this movie and I believe that the writer may have intended for a completely different ending. But we may never know for sure.While I recommend this movie for its acting. I do not recommend this movie for the utter lies and disappointment regarding what was supposedly a Sci-Fi invasion romp. There are many pieces of sci-fi in this film that in no way math with the end result. Again why I said that I believe the writer had a much different vision than say the producers.

jhughes1362 *********************SPOILER ALERT!*********************He's like on the floor and bleeding. She calls and says the ship is breaking apart, and she's just had the baby girl. But also, he's looking at the ship from the hillside at shore, holding a picture of the baby and she's missing.The store cashier who got shot and later shoots the lead character has a shirt with silhouettes of the spaceship on it and he recites everything that the lead remembers anyone saying for the past two years. Even the stain on the lead's shirt is a bloody image of the space ship. Two alternate realities offered for his choosing?Thank goodness it is streaming! I need to watch it again to make sure I understand it. That is not a good thing to have to do.It's like EVERY human being had a chance to choose their reality. Apparently, most chose Norway?

cynthiawaguespack OK, so big spoiler here. Note the disjointed time lines. Note the different people (at the end) saying the exact same lines other characters said earlier, creating a repetition of "get a job", "pussy", "coward"... etc. Note the "end" of the so-called sci-fi plot where Maya entwines her finger around Cole's ring finger, which jumps directly to him in a clean hospital bed with Maya entwining her finger around Cole's ring finger.Does anyone else see that the so-called sci-fi part was actually Cole's death bed subconscious dreaming a disjointed time line? As in, can you say it, dream? That Michael did actually shoot Cole (think of this (the end) as the "beginning" of the movie, and the first lines of the movie were about "The Light"..as in go to the light? Cole's subconscious dreams of the aliens are imagined from the Tabloid suggestion of a near miss comet. There are no aliens, yes he and Maya were together in real life and his death bed subconscious dreams about the past come in ever increasing disjointed fashion and ever increasing fantastical imaginings. Cole's dying. Maya and the baby (and the rest of the world) are just fine.What this movie is about is a prolonged stream of consciousness (or unconsciousness) of a dying man who is a guilt ridden loser. The reason the sci-fi plot is essentially absent is because it is....except in the dying man's disjointed imagination. Why did I give it such a high mark? Because it obviously fooled everyone. Note the dream-like sequences, landscape, surreal scenes and above all that the sci-fi stuff was a "rip off" (as one critic noted) of other sci-fi movies. Of course it was a rip off, it was what was in Cole's head. Cole actually subconsciously wanted the end of the world, like he wanted the end of his life, so the suggestion of the Tabloid comet was enough to set off his "what if" scenario. Based on this interpretation, with clues everywhere, the movie was very good indeed. Watch it with this interpretation in mind and you'll see it.