Wednesday 2 July 2014

Upside Down (2012) 7/10

Starring : Jim Sturgess, Kirsten Dunst, Timothy Spall
Director : Juan Diego Solanas
Running Time : 108 mins

On twinned worlds where two forms of gravity exist uniquely to each planet, budding chemist Adam Kirk (Sturgess) falls in love with Eden Moore (Dunst), a girl from the other world. The social standings and incompatible gravities of the two planets conspire to keep them apart, and an event occurs that leads Adam to believe Eden has died. So, when he sees her on TV, he decides to take a job that will allow him to interact with the inverse planet so he can try to find her again.

This movie about star-crossed lovers takes an unusual twist by having them live on incompatible worlds. This works pretty well overall, with Sturgess putting in a likeable performance as the man trying to win his amnesiac girlfriend back after ten years of being apart, and the general look of the movie is both interesting and impressively well though through. The only annoying part of the movie was all the English actors putting on American voices, especially Sturgess who also provides a voice-over narration that really accentuates his poor American accent.

You’ll like this if you liked : The Time Traveller’s Wife



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