The Box

 In a film like this, the ending means everything, and in this case, it didn't say much. Although this piece fairly overflowed with moral indecision, the final ending carried very little moral weight, or enough information to give the audience something else to think about.

The acting performances were absolutely adequate. The camera angles seemed somewhat prosaic, and the lighting cliched. The periodicity worked well enough. Costuming seemed an adequate compromise between then and now.

I just don't think the writer went far enough. It's an expanded Twilight Zone episode. So much is apparent (and has been mentioned to me every time I talk about the movie out loud), but the extension doesn't contain enough information about the science-fiction universe it portrays. We never quite understand, or feel the impending, unknowable beyond. I mean, one or the other.

Still, it's based on an interesting idea, and manages to flesh out the complexities of it.