Not to say much, but there are elements here that will be familiar to anyone who has seen time-travel films with alternate versions, or anything in Twilight Zone/Outer Limits involving alternate universes. It is said that the best sci- fi are about ideas and I would say this is often the case, when they are done well fortunately Coherence is a film that (mostly) does it well. This does show in the final film – not that it is cheaply made, but that it is a sci-fi where the ideas are the thing rather than big special effects or anything like this. I had never heard about it till I saw some positive reviews in the paper, and reading about it afterwards (as you will) I learnt that it was shot in only 5 nights pretty much using the director's own front room as the set. Several years since it was made, this very low budget film arrives in the UK with only a few screenings in London that I know of.
However, while they are out, other weirdness starts to occur. One of the group, Hugh, has a brother who works in the field of astrophysics and had suggested weirdness may occur – so Hugh and Amir head out to the only house in the area they can see with power, hoping to find a working telephone to contact him on.
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Warned of potentially odd events, the group is bemused by the loss of phone signals, and the occasional cracked handset, but a little more freaked out by the loss of power to pretty much the entire neighborhood. Recommended especially for those who like independent sci-fi and/or films that take place in one room.Ī group of friends in LA come together for a dinner party on the same night as a comet is going to be passing close to Earth. 'Coherence' is slow burning psychological science-fiction for a thinking person, and it holds up much better than most big budgeted pretentious science-fiction extravaganzas. Although the final twist might seem to be rushed and thrown into there just for the sake of it, but it kinda fits and doesn't change the film's overall tone. The twists hold together and actually makes sense. The story also doesn't crumble into pieces under it's own ambitions. Despite all of that the film manages to keep an eerie atmosphere, and the story movies on one continuous flow without getting sidetracked.
Although the hand-held camera-work might seem to take viewer out of the story, it was just another way to give more room to the improvisation. The writers (director James Ward Byrkit and Alex Manugian who also played the role of Amir) had only written just story and established rules while most of the witty dialogue were improvised by actors themselves, thus proving that the film doesn't need some superstars, but rather talented ensemble cast. Shot over five days with almost unknown cast (except maybe Nicholas Brendon from 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer') and mostly improvised scenes and dialogue. 'Coherence' is master example of what you can achieve with close to no budget, but enough inventiveness.
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