Upside Down

Ratings: 7.0/10

Film Class: B-

Genre: Sci-Fi Romance Drama

It's an interesting concept, living in an upside down world, where 2 worlds interwine with opposing gravities. Adam and Eden lives on opposite worlds, but their chance encounter creates a love story even stronger than the force of gravity. Just like any Sci-Fi movies, it's never "perfect", one world's wealthy, while the other suffers from poverty. And as their names already suggest, expect something new to be created from this Romeo and Juliet forbidden love story... 

Concept and plot wise, prettttyyyyy good. Loopholes? Guaranteed to stunmble into some with a genre like that. Acting was good. However, the narrative part of the plot was horrible, lead actor Jim Sturgess (as Adam) can act but he's not a good narrator. CG wise... quite fake but allowed the audience to experience what it would feel like living in their worlds. 

*major major spoilers ahead, read only if you have no intention of watching this movie* The ending seemingly intended to create an explanation on how the 2 of them was able to end up together... but on deeper analysis, doesn't quite make sense. First off there wasn't even a scene or an implied moment that resulted in that consequence. Secondly, having a mixture of both bloods should result in an equilibrium, meaning that Kirsten Dunst (Eden) should be floating in between both worlds instead of being able to join Adam on his world. 

However, that aside, the most impressive part of the movie was the experiment that Adam was working on... anti-ageing solution. It's not effective internally, but more on external facial features. Because there's 2 worlds with opposing gravities, using matter from the other world,  Adam was able to create an anti-sag solution. To come up with an experimental concept like this is a stroke of genius (kudos to the script writer, who's also the director) - considering the appropriate reference to the main story's concept.

I thought their love story blossomed too abruptly, the moment Eden got back part of her memory (implied in one sentence she said) she fell straight back into love with Adam, even though the scenes before that showed how distant they were. It would have been more realistic if she were to take things slow, since she only remembered bits of pieces of her past. 

Despite all its flaws, I'm marking it up mainly because of the movie's concept/plot.