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June. 27,2006 RUrban Exploration. The practice of investigating areas not designed for public use. But strange things can happen in the dark, closed-off areas of history beneath the streets of Moscow, and what started as a way for Nate to escape his grief quickly turns into a journey that forces him to confront it head-on, with nothing less than his eternal destiny hanging in the balance.
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A story that's too fascinating to pass by...
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
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What a terrible waste of time, effort and money. Save yourself the excruciating frustration and run, run away from this film. An absolute piece of malarky not worthy of the celluloid it rests within. All of the enlightened reviewers who find cosmic awareness and answers in this mess are just fooling themselves. Don't get me wrong. I love "difficult" movies. This however is not one of them. I concur with a prior reviewer who stated it appears somebody was locked in an editing room and not allowed to leave until they concocted something that ran 90 minutes. What's wrong? A crappy script you can see coming from almost the beginning, bad acting, horrendous camera angles (note: pretentious camera angles do not make poop like this into art), really bad music that sounds like outtakes from a rave and the fact that somebody somewhere greenlighted this atrocity. Not a so-bad-it's-good type film. Pass on this unless you have a masochistic streak or more time to waste than I do.
OK, I'm one of the ones "who got it" and I still "hate" this movie. The idea of urban explorers going into dangerous buildings was the original idea, but everything else...especially the ending was just "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" or "Vanilla Sky" all over again. The opening scene fooled me at first, because they said their death farewells (I thought the girl was going to die). Later, when the flashbacks and delusions began, I said to myself "oh no, the girl didn't die, the GUY did, in the opening scene." So I switched to another channel. After reading the reviews here, I realized I was right and glad I didn't sit thru anymore of the crap that was the rest of the movie. Fortunately for me, I read the short story "Owl Creek Bridge" many many years ago in high school, before I saw it on TV. I think they should have stayed with the extreme explorer idea.
I also disagree with negative comments about the flashbacks and the viewer's ability to differentiate between current time, flashback, and imagination/hallucination. One thing my husband told me when I first started watching sci-fi films and reading sci-fi books is you have to be patient. Trust that everything will make sense in the end. And for me, it did just that. I thoroughly enjoyed this film. In some ways, it reminded me of Jacob's Ladder, but shot differently. The themes of regret and longing resonated with me as well. I would highly recommend this film with one caveat: be patient. Trust that it will all make sense in the end.
As a True urban explorer i can say this movie is anything but true to urban exploring and completely unrealistic. If you have been urban exploring watch this movie and you'll know what I'm talking about. However if you've never been urban exploring DO NOT use this as a reference on how to do it as it is anything but accurate. To see what true raw undramatized urban exploring is just go search the web for urban exploring and you'll see what I mean...Urban Exploration is the exploring of areas that have been lost to society or abandoned and hidden to the world that no one knows about (except maybe the homeless) including tunnels yes so i will give the movie credit for that and the fact that you do have to have the proper equipment and research prior to going but not on the level of the equipment they carried...I mean who the hell carries a radiation detector on them...and they didn't have a respirator mask and they were also very careless with the use of their equipment especially flashlights waving them around in the open for police and others to spot them...and i have never heard of anyone using a body bag on an exploration as equipment...and in no way is urb-ex as described: "Urban Explorers are extreme sports' answer to computer hackers" it is not an extreme sport and does not involve base jumping ever, thats not a good way to escape the cops because you will be caught...base jumping is not urban exploring!!! Although it is true, urban exploring can be a dangerous hobby, it in NO WAY would ever present dangerous settings as the ones depicted in the film (i.e. - radiation) unless you reside or explore in a nuclear war-zone or in a area suspected of such conditions. thats what the research is for. Asbestos poisoning is a much bigger threat than radiation...It starts out with the explorers jumping out of a van and running out in the open to a small hole in the wall of a building with loads of gear on and super bright flashlights on their heads...because that wouldn't draw attention!!! and basically, without giving too much away...the plot does not tie together well mostly due to the fact there is a cut scene/shot every 3-5 seconds of the film including flash backs every other shot. as a matter of fact the plot is very vague and only implied. Unless you do some really powerful hallucinogenic drugs before exploring it will be nothing like the film. The main thing that made me upset about this movie was that it was a disappointment and let down as it claimed to be the essence of urban exploring but in many cases was not and was a total dramatization and blown ridiculously way out of proportion and in the long run turned out to be nothing about it in the final conclusion. This movie was just made (in my opinion) to try and scare people from going exploring and prevent illegal trespassing and encourage the safe tourism of historical landmarks open to public (partially because of the clips in the credits) but who knows, maybe it was meant to encourage urb-ex to find out whats really out there...or where you really are!!??? i think...On one last final note: I will say that it had a very interesting attempt to jazz up the hobby and make it seem more hardcore than it really is although in some areas it can, like the movie suggests, be highly dangerous and precautions should be highly taken into consideration...