Code 8

Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: December 6, 2019

6.3	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 65 Ratings

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KadirovMay 17, 2020

Very good for the work funded by people. Those who like to masturbate at how dramatical and sad a film is can go back watching their soap operas.

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Thunderblade_NJul 21, 2020

It's decent enough. The plot is quite generic, well meaning guy gets pushed into crime to save his ailed mother. It's interesting enough, especially with the nice world building, and the acting holds up decently. I wouldn't say this film isIt's decent enough. The plot is quite generic, well meaning guy gets pushed into crime to save his ailed mother. It's interesting enough, especially with the nice world building, and the acting holds up decently. I wouldn't say this film is outstandingly good, but it isn't terrible either. I would say watch it if you have free time.… Expand

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DudabraApr 30, 2020

The movie is good. They have a good ambientation but suffer with a lack of good dialogue and excess of cliche. The actors make a good work and take your attettion but it is all. Who likes the superpowers people theme would like this movie.The movie is good. They have a good ambientation but suffer with a lack of good dialogue and excess of cliche. The actors make a good work and take your attettion but it is all. Who likes the superpowers people theme would like this movie. But somebody who is looking for something more can be disappointed.… Expand

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DeanomiteJan 18, 2020

For a $2m budget it looks amazing, good script and well acted. I guess it was a crowd funded movie, never heard of that before.

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Rakib0301Dec 21, 2019

Amazing film with an amazing cast - do not listen to the critics, enjoy for yourself, has heart and a great narrative

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Psychomantis4uDec 13, 2019

Wow. I like the pace and the emotions of this movie. Different of Hollywood the good way. Highly recommend to watch it. I want to see more from these director Jeff Chan.

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DisembodiedAug 29, 2020

It's far from perfect, but what holds this film back was mostly how it had to climb its way here out of nothing. It was a passion project by a small group of people and it certainly has a ton of heart. I will grant that it's very amateurish,It's far from perfect, but what holds this film back was mostly how it had to climb its way here out of nothing. It was a passion project by a small group of people and it certainly has a ton of heart. I will grant that it's very amateurish, but they had so little to work with, I'd be remiss if I didn't commend the outcome. A real lemonade from lemons production. Look, maybe a year or two ago, I wouldn't be saying this... but this film got a hell of a lot more topical in 2020 than it was in 2019. Police brutality and an abused underclass really hit harder than they used to. This is a bog standard crime drama with a speculative fiction twist. Visualize this movie as a sandwich. The writing, the dialogue, the character archetypes, the tropes, hell the entire plot is the bread. You don't watch it for that; all of that is a vehicle for the premise: Do you want to see a grim reflection of our world where the strife wrought by class prejudice gets turned up to 11? If so, this is the film for you.

There's a romantic agony to watching the plight of our antiheroes as they struggle to make ends meet in an authoritarian police state that not only turns the entire population against them, but dials the pressure so high that they practically have to cannibalize one another. So, if you feel a yearning for solidarity with people who are struggling like you are, this is yet another way the movie might be for you.

For how unsettling and tragic their world is, this "crime" plot might as well be a slice of life. A window into how an entire underclass of people are forced to live - a reflectoin of what people in real life call "The Trap". When you aren't allowed to survive above board, you have to scrape by under the table. When you can't afford to live clean, you have to live dirty. The whole thing is a cautionary tale, and PERHAPS it's a bit too on-the-nose - I can grant that! - but it's a cautionary tale that NEEDS to be told: The choices we make as a society have consequences. If those in positions of authority push people down, then those people must undercut that authority.

I don't know if I could classify my appreciation for this film as "schadenfreude" the way I would normally use that word, because usually it implies watching bad people get what's coming to them. But in this rare case, the itch that this film scratches for me is the feeling of validation, seeing other people struggling and scrambling and watching the world they live in shudder with the strain. If it could be said that this film could only get one thing right, it's that corruption above creates corruption below. It fits. It belongs. It resonates. If you can't see yourself in it, then I have trouble believing you're a person.… Expand

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AWESOM-0May 4, 2020

Really a 6.5 but it’s well acted so I rounded up. Overall, I can appreciate the effort put into this movie.

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Ryo91Apr 17, 2020

8/10 * Ganz Cool aber ich habe mir gewünscht das Connor noch mehr seine Kräfte einsetzt gegen Feinde.

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RickStebsAug 23, 2022

This movie was amazing! Discovered on Netflix, loved the universe!! Wish they made it a tv series, so there could be more stories explored.

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