In the rocky, dark tunnels of an underground research installation, a man tries to find himself and a way out of what seems to be a living nightmare. A low-budget french production from which the budget seems to be the least of what is missing, Eden Log's science fiction grinds its way from start to just before the end, in a film which impresses rather as a video shoot and editing project more than anything else. Acting far off the flick's focal point and allegory delivered in surges of expressional spikes, ingredients in an overall poor depiction of a lukewarm horror setting. Because, in the end, the cliché of the amnesiac hero cannot be justified by means of a familiar conceptual revelation. Poor because the horrors in this film never manage to feel more horrific than just would-be. Poor because the last 20 minutes or so of actually engaging storytelling cannot make up for more than an hour's tedious pace. Poor because, tiringly enough, what was supposed to feel claustrophobic and realistic, turns out to feel merely dark, languidly low-light and monochromatic. Sought as it might be by fans of dystopian themes, this one is not recommended to the average film hobbyist.
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