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Kill Switch

2017

Tim Smit

Dan Stevens, Bérénice Marlohe, Tygo Gernandt, Chloe-May Cuthill ...

4.1

580

Sci-Fi A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.

	Media	Author	Review
		Scott Tobias Variety	"It feels like a demo reel for a game that nobody can play (...) Smit sketches the outlines of a fascinating corporate dystopia, but never quite fills in the clarifying details"
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"You'd have more fun playing a real video game (...) A visually imaginative but narratively incoherent exercise"
		Christopher Gray Slant	"Rote and impersonal (...) It suggests the first-person action film will remain a disposable but diverting sliver of the low-budget sci-fi landscape (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Chris Packham LA Weekly	"A gimmick that is technically well accomplished (...) If you enjoy passively watching your buddy play video games and never getting a turn, 'Kill Switch' is the film made for your weird preferences."
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"A pointless gush of science-fiction bilge (...) 'I don’t feel like I’ve done a very good job', Will says when his mission is over. True that."
		Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"An illogical, simple-minded mess (...) When the occasional non-POV flashback tries to establish the emotional center of Will’s life (...) they feel obligatory rather than organic."
		Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	"[It] is the worst kind of science-fiction film: the kind that coasts on a central gimmick instead of delivering visceral or intellectual thrills (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

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