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"Escape 2120" tells the tale of Dave, a young man who had lost his parents, and was looking to escape his life. He wins a competition with his prize of helping two scientists with their experiment in time travel.

The story has great ideas, in both who to travel through time, and what the world would be like in the distant future.

Unfortunately, the movie was very slow moving, with a number of the concepts, not very well explained.

Too much time was spent on dialogue, and not enough on exploring the world of the future.

I did like the Doc - who seemed to be a cross between Doc Brown (Back to the Future) and Max Headroom.

With a bigger budget, this movie would have had the potential to be very impressive and entertaining.

I did watch this movie till the end, but it was a struggle.

I have three words for this movie: Terr-i-ble. It may have had a great story but I couldn't follow it. The acting; the acting. I normally would disregard bad acting if the story was intriguing. But I didn't pay great attention and wasn't worth it. Played in the background while I looked at stories on my phone 📱.

Before watching this movie, I read the bad reviews, then read the books it was based on. For that reason, it was probably easier for me to follow than for others.

Obviously the movie is low budget. Bad acting was present, but the guy who played Samuel was almost unbearable to watch.

I feel this movie could be remade with more money, better actors, and perhaps more action scenes with better changes in musical score, and might then do a bit better.

Just when the current year couldn't get any worse, there is this.

This movie is awful. Mostly because of bad acting. Not the young female actor but basically everyone else. I almost wish I would have read the book. The movie has great premise but needs most of the characters recast

Like the rest of 2020, this has become a mess of gigantic proportions

it had potential, but lost track of where it was going - and with a cast that has little to no spark on screen, lousy effects, poor development, lost story, boring props and no sountrack to blend in to make this any more interesting...this just drags on far too long

if the timing was cut and it even had remotely interesting dialog and some thought given about advancements in the future, this could have been interesting - instead it was a bore which dragged on longer than it needed to be - and with the lack of budget to sustain anything that was needed, the basic design of the story made it a total drag to sit through

I wasn't looking for the next Star Trek or Star Wars, but when the poster is more impressive than the film, then there's a serious problem

hopefully your next effort is more entertaining, more thought put into it - and a bigger budget with stuff that makes it interesting

for a future world, this is less interesting than the stone age - and for all the advacements of travel, they have next to nothing for living - less than a jail cell

and that is where it all falls apart...more than the tiring story

How the actors who appear in this disaster don't cringe in embarrassment beggars belief. I want my 107 minutes back.

Are you serious?! Are YOU serious?!!!

I don't even know what to say because it is offensive to language to use words to describe this garbage. I can only think of all the good movie ideas that got passed on so THIS audio-visual diarrhea could be splattered on my screen.

The fact that someone made this, edited this, previewed this and then as a collective group decided to move forward and release this mess into the universe... further let's me know how incredibly insane people actually are!

The budget had to be like $235, with no payroll and promises of royalties off the sale. Someone is definitely in debt over this mess!

I almost have to believe that crack or some other form of hard narcotics were involved in the decision to fund, produce and direct something of this low caliber.

Looks like it was shot in a high school and the woods behind the high school.

And it is my sincere opinion that the actors had to be utterly ashamed of themselves for even being involved.

All involved should almost certainly and immediately decided to have a career change, and never tell family or friends that they were ever apart of this...

The first 30 mins I was ready to give up but happy I stuck with it..To bad their budget wasn't higher, could've been great..If you're not into the time travel scenario you probably won't get it

Apparently this was based on a book that was probably a pretty decent story but unfortunately it was not transferred to the screen. The acting is horrendous. It is so bad at points it completely takes one out of the story. Given the gaping plot holes and things that are simply never explained I can only assume entire chapters must have been skipped. As it is, it makes no sense at all. Sad to see someone else's creative vision reduced to a bad high school play.

This movie had a little potential from the beginning, but it never brought anything together. I love sci-fi movies and wanted to check this one out, but everything was so cheaply done. The storyline was really cheesy. It was also very unbelievable that a "brotherhood" would get so upset and want to go after someone over fish hooks. Really? Come on! Even the villain in this movie was such a bad villain it was entirely unbelievable, almost to the point of laughable. The camera work was terrible as well. I almost didn't finish the movie because how bad it was but I had already wasted an hour. Why not finish it? But I was so uninterested that I still don't really know what happened at the end.

The future is ... the woods. And in these woods are a few tan, dome-shaped, canvas tents. And inside these tents are a few wooden tables and chairs. The only thing to eat is apples and tomatoes. And everyone dresses the same.

Oh. And there's only one black person in the future.

There's a guy who looks like Rodney Dangerfield and laughs like Sideshow Bob strutting around harassing people - especially Dave - for some reason that never really makes sense.

Dave is the sullen, prickly, unlikable main protagonist.

This sparsely populated future of all (but one) white people is, inexplicably, preoccupied with the legend of the "Devils Child."

And it looks like Dave is the Devil's Child. But it's all a misunderstanding. And I can't tell you the meaning (much less the menace) of the legend, or how the legend (one of the more boring and pointless legends you'll ever hear) got started.

Anyway ... there's this legend and, because Dave steals some era-appropriate clothing from a wooden box inside one of the canvas tents, they decide he's the Devil's Child. Which is a weird touchstone because they don't have currency in this communist "utopia" and everyone wears the exact same Joanne Fabric jacquard camouflage outfit so ... why would anyone even know or care about the clothes? They act like he's committed the worst sin imaginable to modern human.

Dave is not a time traveler, per se. He arrived to this "utopia" (movie synopsis description, not mine) by curling up in a cave and inducing a state of suspended animation. So it's not like he did something to alter the timeline, thus creating the legend that he would then double back and inadvertently became the star of.

I just don't know. I mean ... I REALLY don't know because, suddenly, the "rules" seem to change. He goes from a guy who napped his way 700 years into the future (a one-way trip) to a guy who is able to jump around into different timelines and (I guess) dimensions.

The device he uses to accomplish this feat looks like the guts of a 1960s transistor radio. Somehow the D batteries used to power this contraption haven't decomposed in the intervening seven centuries.

WT actual F? Just when I think I kinda understand the stupid premise, some script writer's drunk brother enters the room and says, 'hold my beer.'

Whenever I start watching an obviously low budget, indie film, I prepare myself mentally for weird premises, subpar acting, plot holes, homemade props, jarring soundtracks and jerky editing. By lowering my expectations, I'm often rewarded with a quirky and memorable little gem.

But this one? I don't get it. Even allowing for the obligatory, sci-fi suspension-of-disbelief, nothing is even remotely plausible. Nor does it add up to anything logical.

I award it all of the 'Ed Wood' stars available.

Oh dear. Somebody call Over-actors Anonymous. The script was appalling. The actors delivered their lines like they were doing a high school play. With a bigger budget, a script writer who can write, and actors who can act this actually might be a watchable movie. As it is, I sat there feeling embarrassed for the actors. David Afflick as the baddie was especially bad. Cringe-worthy, in fact. Not recommended under any circumstance. I'd rather read a bus timetable.

Terrible acting. Cheap props and scenery. I felt embarrassed for the actors.

This movie has a really interesting and thought-provoking story. ... That's it. Everything else about it was just terrible. The acting was horrible (except for some promise showed by Samantha Ipema) and the script was worse than that. It reminded me of low-budget flicks from the eighties, although you can give it some slack considering it's a no-budget indie production.

But, it did have a good story with an interesting and believable premise. The science gets muddled right at the end and it doesn't tie up with much satisfaction, but it's worth watching - just. Give it a go if you like believable science fiction and imagined future worlds.

This is one of the worst movies that I have ever watched....

Early in the movie, it becomes apparent the movie could have benefitted from more money for some added technical expertise. The story was interesting and the cast did a commendable job of telling it. I'm sure this movie will be a cringe worthy stepping stone to great careers should they decide to keep at it.

The lack of a budget can be seen clearly throughout the entire film. The acting is great, the concept and story is fantastic. The execution is... hmmm. As far as bad movies go, this is a great one. It's worth your time if you are into sci-fiction.

Seemed like a decent college play until villain David Affleck came along. He's a very poor actor. Despite that, it held my interest. I don't regret watching on a late night.

If their budget wasn't 3 pennys and a ball of lint, it probably would have been better.

Reminded me of a movie that 7th graders would make during a sleep over.

How I even came across this movie, I do not know.

I'm always ready to watch anything involving time travel. I got through this movie, but only to see how it would end. I hope the Mystery Science Theater guys do this movie. It's right up their alley, and just what this movie needs!