I checked this review off as a possible 'spoiler' simply because this movie has a major unintended detraction going against it: It's called Sci-Fi.
To the Average Audience Viewer, Sci-Fi means Robots, Monsters, Aliens, Space Battles, Super Action, and Special Effects guaranteed to render you epileptic.
And Worse-- Something with the Title: "Beyond the Edge"...of the ENTIRE Universe, no less, garners vague intimations so grandiose that anything less than Meeting God Himself would be an insulting letdown.
Average People who pulled this movie on the basis of The Name & The Genre cannot be blamed for thumbing-down this movie as a boring and confusing waste of an hour and a half.
I didn't know exactly what to expect either when I popped it in late last night. I was expecting a quickie end of the universe space adventure before I went to bed...and I ended up scratching my head as I realized it was a fictional thought experiment posing the question: What would the actual EDGE of the Universe actually be Like? What would happen to Physics? What would happen to Time? What would happen to the men who entered such as Region? When you realize those are the actual questions being talked about by Dr Withersford (Adrienne Barbeau)...then the weird backward moving, out of sequence, time sequences and multiplicity playing themselves by the two space travelers is the whole point of the movie...
Also-- further suspension of belief than is usual for Sci-Fi is required herein...simply, the anachronistic technology of the ship itself is seemingly the product of an alternate Earth/Universe that somehow manages to reach the END of the Universe even within the relativistic lifespans of its pilots...
I'll grant you...I DID Fast Forward thru a goodly portion of the scenes just to get to the next scenes...but when the movie ended and I sat there scratching my head...I found myself intrigued by the questions posed.
I give the Movie 7 out of 10 for a Brave Effort. You Have to be 'In the Mood' for this movie. Definitely NOT a Main event for a Saturday Night, but an interesting Thought Provoker...
To the Average Audience Viewer, Sci-Fi means Robots, Monsters, Aliens, Space Battles, Super Action, and Special Effects guaranteed to render you epileptic.
And Worse-- Something with the Title: "Beyond the Edge"...of the ENTIRE Universe, no less, garners vague intimations so grandiose that anything less than Meeting God Himself would be an insulting letdown.
Average People who pulled this movie on the basis of The Name & The Genre cannot be blamed for thumbing-down this movie as a boring and confusing waste of an hour and a half.
I didn't know exactly what to expect either when I popped it in late last night. I was expecting a quickie end of the universe space adventure before I went to bed...and I ended up scratching my head as I realized it was a fictional thought experiment posing the question: What would the actual EDGE of the Universe actually be Like? What would happen to Physics? What would happen to Time? What would happen to the men who entered such as Region? When you realize those are the actual questions being talked about by Dr Withersford (Adrienne Barbeau)...then the weird backward moving, out of sequence, time sequences and multiplicity playing themselves by the two space travelers is the whole point of the movie...
Also-- further suspension of belief than is usual for Sci-Fi is required herein...simply, the anachronistic technology of the ship itself is seemingly the product of an alternate Earth/Universe that somehow manages to reach the END of the Universe even within the relativistic lifespans of its pilots...
I'll grant you...I DID Fast Forward thru a goodly portion of the scenes just to get to the next scenes...but when the movie ended and I sat there scratching my head...I found myself intrigued by the questions posed.
I give the Movie 7 out of 10 for a Brave Effort. You Have to be 'In the Mood' for this movie. Definitely NOT a Main event for a Saturday Night, but an interesting Thought Provoker...