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• Manu G

  
  Two worlds. One future. Good movie! "Upside Down" has a great idea that should have been a lot better than it ended up being. The film's setting is magnificently beautiful, there are a lot of stunning ideas and images and the main story is good enough to make the… More
  Two worlds. One future. Good movie! "Upside Down" has a great idea that should have been a lot better than it ended up being. The film's setting is magnificently beautiful, there are a lot of stunning ideas and images and the main story is good enough to make the two-planet world look real. The one and the only one flaw of the film is that it pretends to be a sci-fi film rather than a fairy-tale in an unusual setting. If you judge it as a sci-fi you will find a lot of "how could it be" things that tear the imaginary world apart. However, it's obvious the filmmakers were more interested in focusing on the visuals than actually telling a good story. "Upside Down" proves that as awesome as visuals can be, it can't overshadow incompetent storytelling and a weak plot. I can't say i'd recommend it but it's worth a watch! Adam is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he loved once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach... a girl named Eden. Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love. But when he catches a glimpse of grownup Eden on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back... Not even the law or science!

• Jan Marc M

  
  Upside Down (2013, France-Canada) is a fantasy feature set in an alternate Universe with opposing worlds, literally and figuratively. Employing a "forbidden love" drama, Upside Down, amid great photography and concept, fails to sustain energy for the audience to believe.

• Dead A

  
  It was released in 2012 not 2013.

• Caesar M

  
  Imagine my surprise after watching this movie and discovering it is set to be release a year later. Why? Dozen of people have clearly already seen the movie and those who have seen it were left underwhelm with the whole experience. As much it does pain me to tell the community this a… More
  Imagine my surprise after watching this movie and discovering it is set to be release a year later. Why? Dozen of people have clearly already seen the movie and those who have seen it were left underwhelm with the whole experience. As much it does pain me to tell the community this a film not worth waiting for; at the same it will save you money to watch other films worth the price of admission next year. Upside Down is set in a world where dual gravity exists. In this world, we have the upper class with all the rich people on top and the lower class on the bottom. With this world one would expect a fresh way to view the huge gap in the class system and possibly be a character study as our character explore the two different worlds, except the narrator in the beginning specially tells us this is a love story. A poorly told love story at that too. Why tell a love story if that is were the least amount of focus is put into. It makes no sense. The romance aspect is underdeveloped and even oddly rushed at times considering the couple never rarely share scenes together. It doesn't help either that the love story at times is can be cheesy. The movie is trying to tell a love story, but not having a focus on developing the romance itself is a puzzling decision. What makes this film even more disappointing is that its world is interesting and could have served a more effective use for storytelling. We have a world were a difference between wealth is clearly evidenced and a character that discovers how to enter the other world. It had so much potential to use it world for another kind of story, instead it rather tell a love story where little effort was out into. I do want to say that Jim Sturgess is one of my favorite actor and it pains me to heavily criticize him for not being on the top of his game here. Sturgess is a great dramatic actor that unfortunately lacks the charisma to be an interesting leading actor in a romance. Sure some women will find him attractive, but the lack of chemistry with Kristen Dunst preventing us from buying the romance. Kristen Dunst is oddly underused and rarely shares scenes with Sturgess. Why rarely have the two central actors barely share any scenes if the main focus is a love story. Whereas Sturgess does at least try to make the romance convincing, Dunst does not put any care in her role. What the film does get right is being original and its visual. At times the film provides some breathtaking photography, but beautiful imagery is not enough to carry an entire film. I do have to say that all studios, regardless of the movie quality must be kept out of the audience hands if intended for a theatrical release. This is the fourth time this year I got my hands on a movie before its initial release. I don't intentionally try to see movie before there official release, but the lack of care from the studios gives me no other option but provide an honest view on the film. Unfortunately in this case I have to say that this movie is worth a rental at best and not the price of admission on the big screen.

• Philip P

  
  The concept of Upside Down is enough to intrigue anyone, but what that concept ultimately becomes is a bit of a let down in terms of what the synopsis and trailers seemingly promise. That isn't to say this is a bad film or that I'd accuse it of false advertising, but it is… More
  The concept of Upside Down is enough to intrigue anyone, but what that concept ultimately becomes is a bit of a let down in terms of what the synopsis and trailers seemingly promise. That isn't to say this is a bad film or that I'd accuse it of false advertising, but it is more The Notebook than Inception. When a film promises it will take place in a different solar system where two twin planets each with their own and opposite gravity causing a disruption between societies there is reason for a sci-fi fan to be excited and optimistic. More than simply societal differences, these two worlds are better compared to the Capulets and Montagues. It is an interesting thought, to take the star crossed lovers story and apply it to an original idea that might allow the functions and rules of a new universe to give bigger and fresh obstacles to our two protagonists, but the entire time I was watching this film it felt more like the makers had become so entranced and swept up in making sure the logistics of this world worked properly that they forgot how well (or not so well) they were developing their characters and the story they were trying to tell. It is easy to see how Upside Down might have been a roller coaster adventure as a novel or seemed absolutely engaging as a script (the thoughts of how this might all look being too ambitious an undertaking for the actors to turn down), but as it is delivered in a brief hour and forty-seven minutes the film never seems to find its footing and dig into where it could have gone until way too late. The narration from Sturgess' Adam hints at the idea that writer and director Juan Solanas would like to make a few more films set in this universe, and I wouldn't mind venturing back, but before he does so he would need to make sure the story will be just as involving as the visuals. read the whole review at www.reviewsfromabed.com

• Christopher H

  
  Often overcomplicated and drawn out, "Upside Down" is ambitious from the start, but loses ground when it tries too hard to be something futuristic and different. The cinematography is outstanding, resembling that of Terrence Malick's work, with stunning, vast… More
  Often overcomplicated and drawn out, "Upside Down" is ambitious from the start, but loses ground when it tries too hard to be something futuristic and different. The cinematography is outstanding, resembling that of Terrence Malick's work, with stunning, vast landscapes, and a visual effects presence that is much needed in this science fiction interpretation about love between two very different people. With an amnesia plot device that messes with the film's pacing and a convoluted story structure of changing rules, it is miraculous this film doesn't completely fall off the deep end. Instead, it is held wonderfully in check by actors Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst who both prove their statures in their own right. When there actually is a sense of urgency, the film comes together nicely, but when random events occur like men with dogs in the woods, its really a shame the film has to lose such a foothold. Promising and enduring, "Upside Down" is a nice, romantic, science fiction endeavor, but straddles the borders between an above average fantasy piece and a nonsensical substandard sci-fi flick.

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