Epoch: Evolution

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war of the worlds with less gore.......2007-05-13

This is movie dvd celebrates is 29 month anniversary since it was first released in december of 2004. This movie takes place ten years after the events in the first movie. As the movie starts the main character Dr. Rand wife had been murdered by the evil Gensis and now they are after him and his ten year old alien son. If that were bad enough there is a international conflict between Russia and China. Can doctor randy stop the devestating power of alien life form again but not from one but from two of these giant spiral shaped mountains with and alien ship underneath them. Can he solve the mystery to save the world will foiling the evil Gensis plans to kill him and his son. Find out in the spinetingling conclusion. This movie should be suitable for kids 17 and up due to heavy vioilence, mild gory, occaisional thematic elements, and frequent profanity. If you like this see the prequel epoch. If you by this you might as well get a new copy since the selling price is low under $20 with the shipping fee include because it is somewhat of and old dvd and is not a very high demand for copies of it.

Epoch Evolution.......2006-07-14

Had seen the movie on TV and enjoyed it; decided I wanted a copy so that I could watch it when I wanted to.

Good But Inconsistent.......2006-05-19

A new torus, a giant stone tornado-shaped thing that floats in the air, has surfaced. Oddly, the witnesses don't seem very surprised or awed (probably just bad acting). With the new torus we see a return of some of the characters from the first film including David Keith. He is on the run from a shadowy organization bent on killing him and his son. We get a little history as to what has gone on since the first movie.

As the research begins on the new torus a third one shows up. Now there are two floating about and they are putting out mysterious and opposed waves. It seems like a battle between good and evil but who can tell with ancient floating alien rock things? In the end the movie is much like the first as an ancient mystery is unraveled and we get glimpses of the purpose of the toruses.

Decent special effects and a good cast are the pluses in this film. Some of the torus history does not mesh with what was learned in the first movie and there is even evidence that humans knew about the toruses fairly recently (last couple of thousand years) even though in the first movie the torus had been buried since before the creation of life. While I prefer the first movie this one is a decent sequel and not just a cheap follow-up.

Decent sequel.......2006-03-21

This movie sequel has some drawbacks. The special effects were not as good as last time (specifically the inside and outside of the alien's "house") and it was less exciting as well. These differences were not too big either. On the other hand, the general cast's performance was good and the movie tries to show us the violence provoked by fear to the unknown. There has been recently a lot of attention (led by Michael Crichton) about the bad affects of fear, this movie is one of the first in this anti-fear-mongering wave.

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Director: Ian Watson
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ASIN: B000EAC2A2

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10 years after the first Alien object (Torus) arose. Two more Torus appear causing havoc on a global level.

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Epoch Sequel: Evolution
Good story, bad acting
Oh My God?
A bad case of "sequel slump"
Not terrible...not good either

Epoch: Evolution
Starring: David Keith , and Billy Dee Williams
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Release Date: 2004-05-18

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Epoch Sequel: Evolution.......2005-09-21

Pretty good for a sequel. Unexpected and unnecessary nudity at the beginning when the main character enters a "cat house" to hide. No nudity by the playmate supporting actress. Despite what some reviews may mention as contridicting, the two torahs are opposite, one's life and the other's death. It's the Main Character's son that "revives" the dead and only those who he sees near his dad! Say as the first, movie is over just as it gets exciting!

Good story, bad acting.......2005-01-03

I picked up this poor excuse for a movie at Blockbuster, craving a sci-fi flick. I'm glad it was cheap, because it is without a doubt a waste of money.

The story is decent, if a bit contrived. It is about a mysterious item called the Torus, that was able to conceive a very stupid engineers son without the act of sexual intercourse (bummer, engineers don't get enough sex as it is). Anyway the Torus has reappeared with new features. It can now heal people. However a another Torus appears in the Eastern part of the world, near Russia, and it has the power of destruction. If the two Torus meat, then the earth will go through a destruction/reconstruction phase, and teraform the earth. The problem is, that humanity will be dismissed during the earth restructuring phase, and we can't have that. So we have to find a key or whatever. Ah forget it.

The plot is pretty good, but too convoluted and very cliched. But that is not the worse of it, as the characters truly bring any redeeming quality this movie had plummeting downward. Plotholes are here left and right. The character development is non existent. The bad guys, who work for some new age anti alien reglious nutso occult, are goofy. And stuff that they are regurgitating is someones twisted interpretation of acting. But the protagonist are equally bland. No one should care about David Keith or his assistant, or his son. The thing is you will no root for the bad guys either. Who is an overly streotypical religous fanatic, with a bad southern baptist-TV evangelical accent to boot.

As a matter of fact nothing is appealing in this movie. The "Army" in the future are run by a bunch of incompetent nit wits, who can actually be killed by an unarmed assasin. An assasin who seriously needs to take acting lessons. That is not surprising since the Sergent is a complete moron. In the future, I guess the army becomes alot less selective in who they let in.

I got this movie expecting a sci-fi, but what I got was a comedy. There is no way anyone could reasonably take these actors seriously. They didn't even look they were trying. So this must have been a comedy, and whoever wrote the plot summary on the back of the DVD must have just forgot to mention it. A movie where Billie D. Williams is the best performer is definitely a joke. You can skip this if you feel guilty about laughing AT people. The plot is full of brain dead philosophy and catch phrases. Even the geopolitical stuff involving China is just plain funny. And everyone fits seemlessly into streotypes. It fails as a sci-fi, but it excels as a comedy. 2 stars

Oh My God?.......2004-10-16

Epoch Evolution has something (no, make that everything) for the male, pimple-faced, Sci-Fi buff. It has heavy duty Religion, resurrections from the dead, spontaneous healing and even the "second coming, I think. "Lazarus" comes back from the dead and "Abraham" offers to sacrifice his son. It also has thermonuclear war, exploding space stations, exploding missiles, exploding submarines, exploding aircraft, exploding buildings, exploding cars, exploding people and a nude scene. It has aliens (or is it God?) and their space crafts. Mountains explode and buildings crumble. Thousands are killed and numerous running gun battles. It has more Armageddon than the Book of Revelations. OK special effects. If the "actors" would have been computer generated too, it would have improved the film. It is a "deep" movie for a "shallow" mind. The best part of the movie .... it is only 1:33 minutes long.

A bad case of "sequel slump".......2004-09-08

This continues ten years after the end of the original (Epoch 2000). Rand, our hero, has a son. The two are on the run from the assassins who killed his wife years ago. Hold on to that fact, since it's the last one for a good long while that makes any sense.

As in Epoch, we have the giant, mysterious, stone cone-thingie. We learn that it's called a Torus, possibly because it's unlike a torus in just about every way. Since this is a sequel, we need something more: two Toruses! Also, we have the secret, well-funded, trans-national cult of nutcases, the ones out to kill Our Hero for reasons oddly devoid of reason. Somehow, the cult manages to gain entry to one Torus before the good guys, and hide an inept killer inside. Also, the cult gets into the second Torus just behind the good guys. We watch as our ingenious scriptwriters convince the highly trained military team not to guard their escape route, allowing the somewhat less inept killers to sneak up behind and stage a merry shootout. Along the way, we have a rogue Chinese general launching nuclear missiles and whatnot, and a monastery filled with centuries-old clues. Since the monks spent centuries not caring, one is left wondering how anyone thought to look there for The Key. We also have some special effects emanating from the two Toruses. If the two SPFX touch each other, then kablooie! It will be the end of all life on earth, followed by a thorough remodeling of the place and a new set of life forms as tenants - presumably, ones that will take better care of the property. I am in awe of the mind that could deduce all that from a green light on one Torus and a red light on the other.

Of course, there's a happy ending filled with sequel-bait - the only other thing in the movie I could understand. The son is actually a Mysterious Being and walking first aid kit, with an incredible future ahead of him (coming soon to DVD, one may assume). It also turns out that the stone thingies aren't stone at all, they were something even cooler, just dressed up as stone!

It's fair grade-D (for Direct to DVD) science fiction action flick. If you're looking to kill an evening this might do the job, or at least leave it with some nasty bruises.

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Not terrible...not good either.......2004-08-31

In this movie, a gaint rock formation bursts out of the ground near China. Apparently of alien origin, a US team is sent to investigate. The head scientist (played by David Keith) specializes in pointing out how stupid everyone else is, though this isn't contrasted with any particular brilliance on his own part. In fact, if you bother to pay attention (unlike the writers), you'll notice he's actually wrong and everyone else is right. The lead government agent (played by Stephanie Niznik) refuses to let the scientist do his job because he made a bad joke and she's mad at him. There's also a military guy along who specializes in disobeying orders and generally acting insane while quoting from the Bible. So, the fate of the world is in good hands.

The biggest problem is that the movie never answers its own question: What is the grand purpose of this thing? The scientist comes up with some theories, but considering he's been wrong about everything up to that point, and his theories don't answer the main question: Why? It's very unsatisfying.

But, if you can swallow all that, it's a watchable movie. The action moves along fairly well, the acting is good enough though the characters aren't especially likable, and the CGI is better than average. Or maybe there's just more of it than average. Though the movie lacks any substance, it scores at least a few points for style.

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Decent sequel

Epoch - Evolution
Director: Ian Watson
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000EAC2CK

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10 years since the the first Alien object called Torus arose, two more have risen. The first torus changed the worlds view dramatically not just political but even on a religious basis. DR. Mason Rand is on the run from religious zealots, Genesis Coalition, who fear the epidemic ramifications that will be brought on because of what DR. Rand knows. Dr. Rand has everything to loose he's already lost his wife and now his son's life is at risk.

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Decent sequel.......2006-03-21

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