Friday, March 13, 2015

3/14/15 Parallels Was Awesome On Netflix?

    I just saw a movie last night on Netflix that left me wanting more.  The name is Parallels, but I can't find much about it.  There are bands and businesses and other movies and shows with that name, so grrr.  Apparently, it started as a show pilot, but was then changed into a movie, maybe they ran short on funding, or were not picked up after all.
    The movie picks up with Ronan getting the crap beat out of him in a bare knuckle fight of some kind.  He is in a "loser" spiral, not having much direction in life, we learn later his actions caused the death of his mother, so guilt set him on a course of abandoning the rest of the family.  He gets a mysterious call from dad to meet somewhere, so he heads home, his sister also gets this sketchy call.  They are to go meet dad at an abandoned building downtown somewhere and they take a friend who lives across the street, of course he has been in love with the sister since childhood.
    They go in the abandoned building and within minutes lights flash and they look outside and the landscape has changed.  They are now in a post apocalyptic world.  Everything looks destroyed, from some sort of nuclear bomb.  They are confused and lost and in comes a fourth character, she has become a favorite of mine on "Fresh Off The Boat", Constance Wu.  She is pretty and in this movie, does a little sexy/slutty too.  She explains that the building moves every thirty six hours to a parallel universe, it is earth always, just in a different set of circumstances.  Some are more advanced, some are empty of life.  She states that she has been on the building for a long time and so far it hasn't gone back to her universe, which she appears to be waiting for.
    They are kind of looking for their dad, and it appears that he may or may not have been murdered in some of the universes, and although the mom is accepted to be dead, eventually the dad shows up and says that the mom is not necessarily dead, she is just on a different universe.
    There is other mayhem and some plot twists, such as multiple bodies of that Constance chick, which the others have not figured out.  We are left wondering whether they are good or bad, or in charge of the building.  The dad jumps out of the building right as it transports, like he is not concerned about getting left behind.  He is on a mission of his own.
    I hadn't seen a movie/show that hooked me this much in a while.  I told Wife, we are watching this together as soon as we have a night off together.

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