The Rift

Oh man, why so short ! This movie is incredible. Believe me, you can forgive some of the performances, you can forgive little nuances and then you can enjoy an incredible well directed end of the world. The rift tells a story about a young guy helping a "scientist" scan anomalies in the satellite system. The first few minutes are very well spend introducing the characters, no more than it is needed and then the catastrophe. The scenery is very good, the special effects are incredible considering the budget and the way the movie is handled is incredible for such a short movie. Only 25 minutes of your life you WILL remember, yes we all had seen this before but, somehow this is worth watching it. Although the movie ends in the mother of all cliffhangers you will appreciate what it's been done here, wish more movies were built like this. No 1 hour 30 minutes of cheesy dialog, just 25 minutes of focused end of the world, yeah baby! Go see it, you wont regret it although you will want Rift 2.

"The Rift" is an English-language movie from 3 years ago written and directed by rising Swiss star Robert Kouba. He wasn't even 20 when he made these 25-minutes, but this was far from being his first directorial effort as a short film director. He kept making films in the following years and soon his first full feature movie is about to come out. All in all, especially taking his age into account, he did an okay job here. However, I felt that it dragged occasionally despite being a short film. There is nothing really in here that hasn't been done already in terms of mystery, science-fiction or alien films and I wish this could have been a bit more innovative, a bit more creative. The writing and acting could not really convince me either. I'd only really recommend it to fans of the genre.

I just had the pleasure of viewing the Robert Kouba film, The Rift. "Pleasure" is the optimum word. I thoroughly enjoyed this film. Many of the characteristics we have come to love from Kouba are present in The Rift, great cinematography, powerful sound and top notch acting. With The Rift running just short of half of an hour we are able to truly see how well he can tell a story. The film fan is not disappointed by the result. I conclude that suspense thriller's plot is well paced and thought out. It has been a pleasure to watch Kouba's films to this point and I look forward to seeing his on going growth and artistic talents in future projects to come.