

RIMWORLD REVIEW 2019 MOVIE
It's watchable, totally watchable, but the epitome of a "no, you don't have to pause it" movie when you hit the kitchen for a snack. It zooms along and Bear McCreary's original symphonic score has that big John Williams vibe that evokes Amblin hits from the 1980s.

Just when the gang overcomes one obstacle, there's another. Poorly rendered aliens arrive and everyone runs around screaming for a while (while also cracking jokes).
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So-And-So at the JPL labs and we can win the day!" then croaks. An astronaut hands Alex a key and says, "Get this to Dr. Okay, so, aliens invade, all communication is lost, the adults ditched our crew and then a capsule lands from the ISS. His big secret is that he's dyslexic and, naturally, the fate of all mankind hangs in the balance when he has to type in a complex set of numbers into a NASA computer. Lastly there's Gabriel (Alessio Scalzotto), who doesn't actually attend the camp, but happens to be at the lake retreat when the interplanetary invasion happens. Rim of the World Aaron Epsteinĭiscover your new favorite show: Watch This Now! Jack Gore, Miyah Cech, Alessio Scalzotto, Benjamin Flores Jr. And yet! And yet! I can not deny that despite these very real and glaring issues (let's add cheapo special effects to the mix, too) this movie does kinda work in a very "I can't believe I haven't turned this off yet" type of way. I mean, every 13 year-old kid makes jokes about Werner Herzog, references Gal Gadot's mastery of Krav Maga, but also confuses Star Warsand Star Trek, right? The clockwork storyline is brazen in its adherence to formula, as if a Learning Annex seminar somehow came to life and sat down and got ahold of screenwriting software. The dialogue is a parade of cringeworthy overreaches. Hoping to tap into Stranger Things-mania and the undying love of The Goonies, this extremely unoriginal tale throws four kids together on a fast-paced quest to save the world from invading space aliens. One of my favorite Internet memes is that shot of Steve Buscemi on 30 Rock in the backwards ball cap, "Music Band" t-shirt, and dopey smirk asking high schoolers "how do you do, fellow kids?" If you'd like to see this GIF as an entire feature film, I recommend the Netflix original Rim of the World.
