The premise was almost interesting.
Generate 'identical' universes, cannibalise one for energy...
Obviously the company that wants to do this says the cannibalised universe is devoid of carbon based life, but gives no reason why that should be the case. Here, it is presented as a mistake.
Missed opportunity #1, since the level of evil required to knowingly eat 7 billion people for the sake of powering toasters and phones would have been fun to play with. As it was, that the idea that a massive building would be duplicated, but the timeline and 'alive' (whatever that is) bits of planet walking around in the form of people would not is just taken for granted.
Missed opportunity #2 was making the 'echo' world unashamedly a copy. Not sure how two identical universes can tell which one came first - and that would have explained the side effects, which were left as a mystery. No copy of the post- duplication race to fix, no battle of consumption.
Missed opportunity #3 was failing to capitalise on the essential Sci_Fi genre by ignoring the ethical and moral issues raised. Even if they'd just left some of the main dude's family alive, there would have been more drama. Failing to get opportunity #1 added to the beigeness of the film's core.
As for the rest. grunting POV chases, enemy drones that just hang about looking pretty, until it is time to kill deus-ex style, pointless rebels, pointless company men, pointless everybody, really. and then he turns it off. and with it the last opportunity is missed, the chance to add a hint of ambiguity to a black and white, pedestrian tale.
And then we come to the sound design.
POV is confusing, but we can live with it. The flashbacks were unexpected and unnecessary, perhaps serving to insert the lead's face into the film regularly, because POV doesn't let us see him. What was really bad, as opposed to unsettling, was the sudden change in volume between now and then. Then was soft spoken, quiet, low noise. Now was loud, brash, shouting and gunshots. So sudden shocks as the film transitioned between times.
Adding to the sonic sins, there are repeated long stretches where the sound gets muffled, i guess to represent concussion. So the loud and shouty periods of pointless running and shooting and lame pretend hiding in cover (really providing POV based camera angles when a free camera would have done it better) are broken up by muffled, dull stretches of heartbeat and fuzz.
really not worth watching, pretty much irredeemable.
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