The Man from Earth

2007 "From one of the acclaimed writers of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone comes a story that transcends both time and space..."
7.8| 1h27m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 10 June 2007 Released
Producted By: Falling Sky Entertainment
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://manfromearth.com/
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An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.

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jasperan In my opinion, the idea of the film is great, immortality is always a good idea for any plot in any movie. However, I think the film was too static and the conversation was always about the same topic, which made it interesting for the first 40-50 minutes of the film. The rest was just dragging it, IMO. PS: Edith is so annoying.
TerrificTom I was intrigued by the bare synopsis and the reviews here. So I watched it and overall I was disappointed in it.First off, it's not science fiction. There was no science in it at all. It had a fantastical premise we are asked to believe just because it might be possible biological gobbledy gook, blah, blah, liver, cells regenerate, yada yada yada. "Blah, blah" and "gobbledy gook" do not science fiction make. The premise of the story was fantasy.But that's fine. Nothing wrong with fantasy. But the story lost me when it began talking about somethings I do know a lot about, and that's Religion, the Bible, Jesus, and Christianity. Suddenly this isn't just a story about a guy claiming to be 14,000 years old. Now this is a movie about a guy claiming to be perhaps the most important figure in all of recorded human history. And guess what? Everything people think they know and believe about him is wrong and the most pivotal figure in the history of Western civilization is only pivotal and important because, Oops! everybody around him got it all wrong! And here you sit with him as he's telling his friends how badly history screwed up his story and how he never intended anyone to start a world religion.What frustrated me the most is, any first year student of apologetics could easily dismantle everything he was saying but this movie didn't give anyone that chance. The only person who was personally affected by his alleged "revelation" could not offer even one rational, historical, or philosophical reply to the truly outrageous claims he was making. THAT was frustrating.Anyway, I don't want to get into all the minutia of apologetics while reviewing a movie. This is a review after all. So in conclusion let me just say, It was an interesting premise and setup but the payoff was sadly lacking. The historical claims of Jesus the Christ are not so easily disposed of and certainly not in the last 25 minutes of an 87 minute movie.
Furious_is Maybe that statement is a little facetious, but I feel it is true. I read AMAZING reviews for this film. I went in with high hopes, expecting a well acted, thoughtful, existential and quiet science fiction film. Instead I saw a film so poor I wondered what's the scam here? How could this film possibly have a score in the high 7s.The premise is solid at first glance, but as the film moves along it delves deeper and deeper in to melodrama, and then eventually patronising and insulting trash. I am agnostic, but I found the religion bashing heavy handed and unnecessary. Most of the actors were doing the best they could with the script, but everything comes across flat and lifeless. None of the characters rang true. None of the dialogue sounded like how real people actually talk. If you want to make a science fiction film that shies away from special effects, and instead relies on realism and storytelling, you had better make the dialogue realistic, and the storytelling compelling. Sadly neither are found here.The look of the film, I get that it is a low budget film made on a single location, but the quality of the film stock! It may seem petty, but I could not get over the thought that I have seen better looking lifetime films. Honestly I have seen better looking daytime soaps from the 80s.Basically I don't get why anyone would call this film good, let alone a masterpiece. I have read rave reviews, 10/10 reviews, gushing about how thought provoking and challenging this film was. My thoughts were ones of disdain. My challenge was to finish this abysmal film. Many of the reviews seem to fixate on the fact that the writer of this wrote for the original Star Trek series. That to me is not a good enough reason to rate this film highly. I honestly felt ripped off by this film. I've been told I didn't get it, but sadly I did. I understood every scene, I understood the implications, I understood the moral dilemmas and deeper meaning of what was being said. It's just that the deeper meaning was shallow and unconvincing. I've been told maybe I should have watched Transformers instead. Just for the record, I was looking forward to a slow, intelligent film minus explosions. Instead I got, this.3/10, avoid unless you have already drunk the kool-aid and are pre-conditioned to love the film because the writer worked on Star Trek.
khrystynakernytska7 Together with my girlfriend I have watched this movie. A very compelling story that is logically correct, I couldn't spot any obvious reasoning mistakes.A braintwister for those who enjoy an intellectual debate. This movie shows that you don't need Hollywood blockbuster money to make an interesting film.Absolutely worth watching.