{"id":4634,"date":"2017-09-01T06:46:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T13:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2017-09-01T06:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T13:46:41","slug":"review-anti-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=4634","title":{"rendered":"Review: ANTI MATTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\"\"When Oxford based, American PHD student Ana (Yaiza Figueroa) discovers teleportation technology, she decides to test it on a human subject\u2014herself. But passing through a wormhole leaves her a little empty. Faced with many haunting existential questions, she and her partners Liv (Philippa Carson) and Nate (Tom Barber-Duffy) must solve the mystery of what might have been left behind.<\/p>\n

A swift combination of smarts, horror, and action, writer\/director Keir Burrows\u2019 clever science fiction indie starts like Shane Carruth\u2019s award-winning 2004 film \u201cPrimer\u201d but becomes its own unique take on the consequences of opening up black holes. Shortly after making the jump, Ana doesn\u2019t feel right, and Burrows\u2019 script gives us little details as we join her on her disorienting investigation. But not only is Ana unsettled, Liv and Nate are equally frustrated with the results of the human trials of their invention. Subtly things begin to stand out as awry. Protests outside her laboratory grow increasingly violent and certain players appear to be sinister. The mystery builds as another leap through the wormhole beckons.<\/p>\n

In Ana, sexy lead Figueroa inhabits a unique character\u2014an American Hispanic living in Oxford, England. Her conversations with her stateside mother, largely in Spanish, add special dimension to the troubled inventor, who, after passing through the wormhole, just can\u2019t seem to find herself. Burrows smart writing makes maximum use of Ana\u2019s past and her identity ironically crafting a fully realized character that we actually care about.<\/p>\n

Pay close attention to little details. Ana, Liv, and Nate, all harbor a secret, but their uncertainty makes them keep things to themselves. \u201cAnti Matter\u201d is a surprisingly immersive mystery certainly on par with the Curruth\u2019s intoxicating expositions on the efficacy of time travel in the cult favorite \u201cPrimer.\u201d But where Carruth was constrained, some would say beautifully, by a minuscule budget, Burrows seems to have a little more to play with. It goes without saying that the advances in camera and editing technology since \u201cPrimer\u201d enabled Burrows to do things that Carruth couldn\u2019t, but Burrows\u2019 film adds an action dimension that will broaden audience appeal.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt that \u201cAnti Matter\u201d is clearly a humble production, with the writer\/director Burrow\u2019s wife, Dieudonn\u00e9e Burrows, serving as producer. But as modest the budget must have been, the entire production breathes quality. Part of the credit has to go to the cast with Figueroa leading the way. A review of her filmography indicates that \u201cAnti Matter\u201d may be her first lead role in a feature, and she makes the most of it. I suspect that we will be seeing more of her in years to come.<\/p>\n

Reminiscent of The Spierig Brothers\u2019s excellent \u201cPredestination\u201d mixed with \u201cTwelve Monkeys,\u201d \u201cAnti Matter\u201d is a little film bound to capture the imagination and hearts of science fiction fans the world over. It’s a fantastical existential journey worth taking.<\/p>\n

Look for “Anti Matter” in limited theatrical next week along with release on various streaming video on demand platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indie Sci fi\/horror film brings back shades of PRIMER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4637,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions\/4637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}