You've seen this before, many times. There are some very smart students working in a cutting edge field, held back by mindless processes or people who possess more arrogance than knowledge or intuition, deciding to do stuff on their own, usually prompted by a personal tragedy that gives the attempt legitimacy, which seems to work at first exceptionally well only then to backfire in terrible ways. Under the guise of a modern science fiction story, it's the same conservative fear that teaches everybody things should not change and there should always be control, just not yours. It's always the damn Icarus story retold ad nauseam for two millennia and the relatable group of young adults that somehow represent humanity as "imperfect heroes". No wonder we're all doomed.
I wonder, was it so controversial to just make the students want to steal the resources of the lab they are working in just because they have a wild idea that they feel like exploring? Was it so complicated to make them actually succeed and not fail spectacularly? Why can't we see them fail, then fail again, then succeed because they kept at it, like scientists do? Not the hollow cliché when they think they failed but in the morning they see that it had actually worked. Wouldn't it have been nice to see the global consequences of a brilliant discovery, something that both works magnificently and is wasted on a corrupt and decadent society? You can't ask that from a low budget Swedish film, but why the hell can't we see that?
Anyway, this is a low budget Swedish clone of similar American movies, themselves tired and uninspired retellings of the Icarus story.
