What a promising premise. Somehow a planet identical to earth has been discovered in our own solar system. This planet also happens to have duplicate people that have evolved in exactly the same way. So I could go meet myself. Of course the science of this is irrelevant, even though they try to throw in some explanation about how it orbits exactly opposite the sun from us so we couldn't see it. But the science is important. What changed so that its orbit is not directly opposite the sun now? Why does it get bigger and bigger throughout the film? Why were we not able to detect the gravitational effects of this planet? If you are going to do Sci-Fi, either completely abandon science or do it right. Don't try, but fail to make sense of something. As for the remainder of the film, it was more of a psychological drama that I expected. The girl who kills a family while DUI meets up with the surviving father, befriends him and then crushes him. Of course, the crushing was not part of the plan, but it is inevitable. It is a tragic story that raises the "What would you do" questions. So while it was not very entertaining or particularly exciting, it made me think. If that is what you want in a film, you might like this.
3 stars (out of 5)
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