Levels

Quite a good story and interesting theme. Well done use of AI and what could potentially happen. I don't remember seeing Mel (Amanda Tapping) which is disappointing. I remember her from Sanctuary.

Levels (2024) - ❤x7

This is a kind of a less fun combination of Free Guy (2021), Upload (2020), and The Matrix (1999).
It's not as good as any of the afore mentioned or as fun, or as flashy but its okay and watchable.

How I rate:
1-3 ❤ = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 ❤ = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 ❤ = I expect you will like this too
9-10 ❤ = movies and TV shows I really love!

Feels kind of amateur-ish sometimes but the story is quite interesting. Worth the watch.

It just never got better -and then had a weak ending.

The worst part is this could have been great

It was quite bad tbh. The idea behind wasn't, but the execution was really poor. A Inception meets 13th Floor B-movie, plotwise was ok but it didn't really have a good rhythm. Acting was awful, specially from the main guy. I loved Cara in The Expanse, but here she dropped the ball really hard. Very slow first act, that barely steps up on the rest. As a final critique, the poster is completely misleading. I'm giving it a 4 but could be worst if I think it a bit more

I found this movie to be quite disappointing. The acting was subpar, and the storyline failed to engage. One of the most misleading aspects was Cara Gee's character especially if one considers watching the movie based on the poster. Throughout the film, she never once appeared in the same outfit as depicted on the poster. I don't even recall her carrying an AR, and even if she did, she wasn't the main protagonist. It seems the producers banked on her fame more than the rest of the cast, which is likely why she was featured prominently on the poster.

The Movie is ok. There is no connect with the Poster.😂😂

Was this movie written by AI? Nothing in this movie makes any sense. It's amazing that they could assemble this into something that resembles a story.

The AI, GFX, and gaming companies got together and built a simulation. No one is allowed to visit this simulation; Ash had to sneak in somehow with special hardware (we later find out you can just call people in there on your phone). Who is this simulation for? No one can visit, it just exists it seems, on a computer somewhere, for reasons I guess. And it's run by a shadowy team of programmers with invisible, noisy keyboards who need to deploy henchmen in the simulation to try to kill the protagonist simulant, Joe. Why? He does nothing that threatens to ruin this sandbox. They try to give the idea that they're real people, but they make clear that this is a simulation. They also show that this AI company is darkening the skies, even though we see aerial shots of a bone-white city through broken clouds, and then we see overcast skies in winter at street level with red bricks buildings. So this company that has no product or customers needs to kill the simulated Joe and also the "real life" Ash, but we never really know why. The thing is full of head scratchers and inconsistencies.

So we have some girl falling in love with her The Sims character in a simulation that has no connection to reality and the company needs to kill both of them for unknown reasons. And Oliver keeps interfering to save Joe via hand-of-god, again, for reasons. At the end we hear Oliver explain how the upper level was all a failure and eludes to other levels, but then he says "looks like we got this one right". He just explained how nothing went right.