WARNING: THIS MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS...
I grew up loving all sorts of movies. My favorite thing to do as a kid was browse the video store aisles and rent the biggest Blockbusters and to coincide with a Tom Cruise movie or whatever was hot at the time, I would also rent a lesser known independent film that had a cool cover or an actor or actress I recognized. If video stores were still around, I would have picked up this movie on the art work and cast alone. Cut to 2016 and things have changed, movies have changed as well as how they are made. One of the biggest problems today is anyone with an internet connection can write up a review of any film at any time (just as I am doing right now). Most people who write reviews are haters and I don't believe in being "cyber- brave" and just slandering someone's work. In that sense, I must respectfully disagree with the above user's review of this film. Sure it's mega low budget, sure it has it's problems, but honestly I was never bored and the whole time I kept thinking of how much it reminded me of the recent Wesley Snipes film "Gallowwalkers" which I had just watched. That film probably had five times the budget this film did and was way worse (IMO). What I did enjoy about The Sector is that is started with a very simple and familiar premise and it escalated into something I wasn't expecting. Our hero (Dresher) played by Richard Tyson (Buddy Revell himself) goes on a journey and encounters trouble and interesting characters along the way. The cameos were a real treat and I never once thought any actor was thrown into the mix (just because) as the previous user stated. Seeing Bennett from Commando, The Flash himself from the original and now Jay Garrick on the current Flash, Theo from Die Hard, Bishop from Aliens, and of course Maroni from the Dark Knight made me smile from ear to ear. The film has a cool twist at the end that took a very simple Sci- fi film into a complex one. It's not a masterpiece by any means, but I didn't rent this thinking it would be. It's a movie for a lazy Sunday or a late night watch. I give films like this a break due to the fact the producers clearly didn't have a lot of funding. It's the films that do have the funding and still come up ridiculously short is what bothers me...In closing, watch the movie, decide for yourself, most reviews are written by people with an axe to grind, most of them failed filmmakers, I always believe the truth lies in the middle and that's why I'll give the sector 5 out of 10.
I grew up loving all sorts of movies. My favorite thing to do as a kid was browse the video store aisles and rent the biggest Blockbusters and to coincide with a Tom Cruise movie or whatever was hot at the time, I would also rent a lesser known independent film that had a cool cover or an actor or actress I recognized. If video stores were still around, I would have picked up this movie on the art work and cast alone. Cut to 2016 and things have changed, movies have changed as well as how they are made. One of the biggest problems today is anyone with an internet connection can write up a review of any film at any time (just as I am doing right now). Most people who write reviews are haters and I don't believe in being "cyber- brave" and just slandering someone's work. In that sense, I must respectfully disagree with the above user's review of this film. Sure it's mega low budget, sure it has it's problems, but honestly I was never bored and the whole time I kept thinking of how much it reminded me of the recent Wesley Snipes film "Gallowwalkers" which I had just watched. That film probably had five times the budget this film did and was way worse (IMO). What I did enjoy about The Sector is that is started with a very simple and familiar premise and it escalated into something I wasn't expecting. Our hero (Dresher) played by Richard Tyson (Buddy Revell himself) goes on a journey and encounters trouble and interesting characters along the way. The cameos were a real treat and I never once thought any actor was thrown into the mix (just because) as the previous user stated. Seeing Bennett from Commando, The Flash himself from the original and now Jay Garrick on the current Flash, Theo from Die Hard, Bishop from Aliens, and of course Maroni from the Dark Knight made me smile from ear to ear. The film has a cool twist at the end that took a very simple Sci- fi film into a complex one. It's not a masterpiece by any means, but I didn't rent this thinking it would be. It's a movie for a lazy Sunday or a late night watch. I give films like this a break due to the fact the producers clearly didn't have a lot of funding. It's the films that do have the funding and still come up ridiculously short is what bothers me...In closing, watch the movie, decide for yourself, most reviews are written by people with an axe to grind, most of them failed filmmakers, I always believe the truth lies in the middle and that's why I'll give the sector 5 out of 10.