Touches You

Perfectly adorable

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Oy.Just way too much time spent trying to establish back story, then too little time spent establishing a "current moment" context, then all sorts of disjointed flashbacks trying to fill in missing elements. A horrid mess of filmmaking with a lot of amateur acting, writing, dialog, and other film elements.The lead character is well played for the most part, but still can't save this mess. I watched about 2/3 of this flick before giving up (Amazon had it for free with Prime membership). Stay away. Your time is worth more than this movie delivers.

This was a made-for-television, very (literally) down to earth movie drama, but it was NOT SciFi. As such I would have given it a much higher rating if I was hanging out at home and flipped on the Lifetime channel, intending to watch a touching movie about a mom and her dying daughter.So here's the SciFi part: Stock footage (rocket launch), stock footage (rocket stage detaching), stock footage (etc. etc. etc.).A few scenes of astronauts supposedly in compartments on the ship.Pretty cool extraordinary abilities somehow acquired while in space, but not truly explained... at least not to a moron like me. Further exploration of this particular aspect of the movie could have redeemed it in my opinion.In the last act, a few CGI's of the ship. In the last scene, a few CGI's of the universe?!?!? Didn't realize they traveled that far!And here's the touching made-for-television melodrama: Mom can't face the inevitable finality of her daughter's cancer so she runs away to {a retreat, Mars, desert island, grandma's house, Paris} - Pick your locale: Doesn't really matter because by all accounts where she ran was completely irrelevant to the movie. You could have taken the "SciFi" aspect completely out of it and still explained away the men in black, political chaos and everything else. Upon her return, she battles against all odds to reunite with her daughter. Ultimately she is successful, returning as her daughter is dying. In the end she finds joy in the fact that she is reconciled to the reality of her daughter's death and that she has fulfilled the wish of both her daughter and, unknowingly, herself by seeing each other before her daughter dies.The end.It grinds my gears when folks tout movies as a particular genre for the sole purpose of drawing viewers. For SciFi people this is especially true in the last decade or so because SciFi SELLS, so everybody is trying to cash in. This movie could have started as the script for a rather pedestrian drama that somebody decided to "spruce up" by throwing in some SciFi elements.Don't get me wrong, I'm a guy that DOES enjoy melodramas. Under normal circumstances I cry just as much as anyone else when I watch a parent lose their child to something as tragic as cancer. But when I have my mind set on SciFi -- I want to see SciFi. For the final 30 minutes all I was doing was squirming in my seat because I knew there was nothing else to the movie, but I couldn't turn it off with so little time till the end.If you want to watch a Lifetime movie, this isn't too bad. The acting isn't great, but no worse than many other melodramas I've watched. At least for me the acting wasn't so bad that it distracted.If you want SciFi then don't waste your time.

This train wreck of a movie made me wonder what on earth is going on with the fake IMDb ratings. The story line had promise (keyword being had) - it was butchered so many times there was no way to make sense of it anymore. The acting - stiff cardboard actors/actress with horrible forced dialog, incorrect facial expressions during "serious" parts, and terrible timing overall. The music was horrible, the tech was laughable. I suppose if you want to watch this for comedic value (think C or D type movie) then go for it - otherwise - please stay away. Reruns of Barney would be more entertaining.

GreetingsThe movie is a decent one. The other reviewers mostly point out superficial flaws.The complaining about acting is exaggerated at the very least. The actors do their job, sure, the secondary roles actors are not the best one, but they are not the important characters. The mother, daughter and father are the most important, and all three actors get the job done.The story is nice too, I preferred watching this than a crappy XXXmillions of $ X-Men Apocalypse which was mediocre at best (the acting in that movie for half the cast was poor at best, half of what is left were kind of searching what the hell their characters were doing there or how to play them. Poor movie.) not to mention poor acting for a very high budget film. One Under the Sun might not have the best secondary role actors you can get, but what do you expect from a movie that did not have half a billion of dollars in budget? The directing is alright, it does not have mistakes like, oh say, X- Men 3 with newbie errors that made that big budget movie look as if it was directed by an amateur instead of a professional, not to mention having the biggest crap of a script that existed in super hero movies at that time (Iron Man 2, Suicide Squad and X-Men Apocalypse were worse than that movie with their own flaws since then). The story is touching and will reach anyone who has someone in their family, especially someone young, who is very sick, maybe even terminally ill. The story is also one of hope and is in the same angle as Eye Origin and Caotica Ana, hope that there is something beyond death. Which is why we only have one god left, and it is the God of Death since it is the only thing that we are still afraid of and cannot explain what and if something comes after death. This movie gives hope and also shows the dedication of a mother, how far she will go and what she could do for her own child.I really love the fact that there is no bang-bang! pow-pow! in the movie like other so called "science-fiction" movie like any of the Independence Days which are more action movies than anything else. The Arrival of Mr. Villeneuve, well that is what a real science-fiction movie should look like, although I am certain that better (and worse) movies can be done, it is still an excellent one that I have already watched three times.One Under the Sun is a movie that you watch if you do not need "action" scenes (bang-bang! pow-pow!-like) and are looking more at a more intelligent form of entertainment. For example, you prefer NCIS with its more intelligent scenarios over NCIS- Los Angeles which is mostly bang-bang! Pow-pow! scenarios. That is okay, it is there for the masses while New Orleans' and the original cast are for a more refined audience. I see One Under the Sun like NCIS and NCIS New Orleans, something for the above average cinephile.Sure, it has flaws, but they do not have hundreds of millions like that X-Men 3 or Apocalypse ones where there is absolutely no excuses for having poor acting performance, poor direction and mediocre scripts. One Under the Sun does its best with the budget and actors it got, the importance in a movie is the story and how it is told, many people forgot about that. Who complained about the acting performance of your mother or father (or anyone else) who told you stories when you were a kid? No one, because the story was what was important. So don't complain on acting unless it is truly horrible like Sophie Turner in the role of Jean Grey, that was poor acting. She should leave the super hero roles to the professionals, she sucks at that. She was there just because of Game of Thrones, if it were not for that, she would have never gotten the role. The original actress in X- Men 1 and 2 (3 too but I don't count that horrible movie) was a really good super hero as Jean Grey and had good chemistry on the screen with the other actors and actresses for example unlike Miss Turner. And there was no reason to have poor acting in such a big budget movie. Again, don't expect 5-star acting performance here, the importance in One Under the Sun is the story, and to me, it was well told and could please to many who takes their time to understand it.This movie is not an artistic movie like Melancholia with Kirsten Dunst and Kiefer Sutherland, which I recommend for anyone who is looking for something else than your usual Hollywoodian films, but it has a little touch of art in it still. You can feel that the writer(s) and the director tried to do something more than your usual "hollytrash" or "ameritrash" movies like some people say.I only recommend this movie to the above average cinephile, those who content themselves with bang-bang! pow-pow! movies, stay away from it, you will probably get bored quite quickly.