Almost all the works of the famous Tarsem Singh (“Cage”, “Outland”, “War of the Gods: Immortals”) are remarkable for their remarkable inventiveness and original exotic setting. His impeccable ability to work with texture and color, to create colorful paintings on the verge of surrealism definitely deserves attention and admiration. For the director, the main component of each tape is sound and color, brought to a psychedelic and frenzied perfection, and the plot is always in the background. Therefore, his next project “Beyond Yourself” received mixed reviews. Many reviewers did not appreciate the author’s experiment of the director.
Ascetic and dry
After the premiere of “Beyond You”, comments, reviews by both cinema experts and viewers were full of comments about the uncharacteristic manner of staging. Most authors were genuinely surprised to see Tarsem Singh among the creators of the tape as a director. In this picture, a connoisseur of classical European art has changed his famous author's style. The fantastic thriller is shot dry and ascetic so that it does not become limp in the most melodramatic episodes, even the musical accompaniment of Antonio Pinto and Dudu Aram is very delicate.
Evaluation of film critics
According to experts, the film is characterized by schematism, rhythmic and scenario failures, compensated by unpredictable editing. Separate episodes are mounted by Tarsem Singh like a jerking shutter: the scene is interrupted by pasting an action that will happen in an instant or after a few seconds. After the storyline develops linearly again - until the next throw. Therefore, the opinions of reviewers were divided. “Out of my mind” critics have negative reviews (their authors claim that this project is not a very successful fantastic thriller) and positive, in which filmmakers emphasize a radical author’s gesture.
Viewers Opinion
“Out of my mind” reviews of ordinary viewers received more approving and IMDb rating: 6.50. Most ordinary people described the project as a modest sci-fi thriller with an excellent cast. Many commentators explained his lack of appreciation and underestimation by the fact that the picture was released late and with a modest budget of $ 26,000,000. At the same time, the curious idea underlying the script and its high-quality implementation were most often noted among the advantages of the tape. The viewer appreciated the director’s grip, admired the clear working out of the scenes, examples of bold editing experiments, good exposure cuts for the corresponding musical compositions. It turns out that for the individual uninitiated in the wisdom of the film industry, the thriller Tarsem Singh looks quite exciting, not releasing the attention of the viewer. And the general plans of the city look extremely textured, voluminous and vibrant.
The taste and color ...
As a result, according to the authoritative opinion of film critics, the potential of the picture, which could be realized in a spectrum of various genres and positions, in the context of scientific and technical progress and moral and ethical dilemmas, in particular, draws to the bottom a banal, if not standard setting. The issues raised by Singh are still able to arouse interest, however, not having received a proper solution, deprives the thriller of development of all sorts of perspectives.
In contrast to this opinion, most viewers note that the director deliberately made an unauthorized film, placing accents differently than in previous works. In “Beyond Yourself”, a bet is made on the plot and the actors: Ryan Reynolds, with the shock support of Ben Kingsley and Matthew Goode, leads the film to the open finale, which states that scientific reincarnation was given to man in order to recognize and correct lifetime errors.
Since everyone is individual in their preferences, you should not read reviews before watching the “Outside Yourself” thriller. It is better to enjoy watching and form your personal opinion.