Minor Premise

Name: Minor Premise
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Released: December 4, 2020
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Alex Breaux, Dana Ashbrook, E.J. Carroll, Karron Graves, Lev Pakman

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Utopia | Release Date: December 4, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Alex Breaux, Dana Ashbrook, E.J. Carroll, Karron Graves, Lev Pakman, Melanie Nicholls-King, Nikolas Kontomanolis, Paton Ashbrook, Purva Bedi, Sathya Sridharan

Summary: Attempting to surpass his father's legacy, a reclusive neuroscientist becomes entangled in his own experiment, pitting ten fragments of his consciousness against each other.

Director: F.A. Eric Schultz

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Dec 3, 2020

These fractured pieces aren’t operating with individual wants. They merely don’t have the others to mask and/or mitigate their singular desire’s pure form. This is a crucial distinction that allows Schultz to deliver on the promise of his film’s potential despite budgetary constraints and limited locations because it leaves the true intrigue to this central performance’s distillation of a single complex identity. Read full review

Rob Rector

Dec 17, 2020

The conclusion is not completely earned by the end credits, but Minor Premise‘s aspirations are far greater than movies with much larger budgets and star power. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Dec 3, 2020

It's a finely-crafted puzzle box that speaks as much to the heart and the head, with a simple but poignant message that we are only ourselves if we are complete. Read full review

John DeFore

Dec 3, 2020

The race to hold on to an identity being fragmented by technology, imagined so hauntingly in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is pure genre formula here, which isn't to say it's not fun. Read full review

Michael Ordoña

Dec 3, 2020

It’s smart and engaging once it gets going and presents a tense, fun labyrinth for viewers to navigate. One just wishes the cheese at the end were more rewarding. Read full review

Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Dec 3, 2020

When a movie that feels this scientifically far-reaching lacks heart, the viewing experience is a dreary, soulless one. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Dec 15, 2020

It's okay to be pretentious, but only if at the same time you can respond with quality to your ambition, and Minor Premise is unable to do so, because its very structure makes it repetitive and consequently tedious.

And perhaps the most defining aspect of its own failure is how it tries toIt's okay to be pretentious, but only if at the same time you can respond with quality to your ambition, and Minor Premise is unable to do so, because its very structure makes it repetitive and consequently tedious.

And perhaps the most defining aspect of its own failure is how it tries to tell a suspenseful story in which the lead characters maps emotions in order to make the memories readable, and yet everything lacks emotion, which makes it a curious sci-fi option, but ultimately empty and cold.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Jul 31, 2022

(Mauro Lanari)
"Split" (Shyamalan 2016) without the acting skill, filmed as "π" (Aronofsky 1998) without the directorial talent.

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Orukayu

Jan 22, 2023

Mediocre horror movie of 2020. The protagonist does not have the air of a scientist or an acting qualification. The subject is also mediocre. If you change the personality every 6 minutes, you will explode. While watching, I waited patiently to see how this nonsense would end. But the movieMediocre horror movie of 2020. The protagonist does not have the air of a scientist or an acting qualification. The subject is also mediocre. If you change the personality every 6 minutes, you will explode. While watching, I waited patiently to see how this nonsense would end. But the movie didn't seem to end. As for the topic briefly:

His son continues the project that his father carried out before. The essence of the project is that the brain can be traced by recording memories and emotions. But his son plans to increase the capacity of the brain by developing it. The first one tries itself and ultimately splits into a shape that reveals 10 different states.

The movie shows a woman and a man who do science on their own from the middle to the end. But it's really boring.

There is no sex or nudity in the movie. There is one very short masturbation scene. There is also a very short foot fetish scene.

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