Review of IO (2019) by Halofever — 03 Feb 2019

My beef with IO is that basically nothing happens and maybe an hour of the hour and 1/2 runtime is a complete waste of time. Nothing against the performances. Anthony Mackie does a great non-Falcon performance. The other actor is ok too. It’s just they have nothing to do except read quotes from literature and stare off into the distance.

I don’t want to spoil anything so let me just say that you won’t see IO or any real sci-fi material. You won’t see the characters go anywhere or do anything in this ultra-low budget movie. More happens in an episode of the Twighlight Zone. I feel duped, hurt by Netflix for offering this movie as something worth watching. There plan is to make as much content as possible. Quantity over quality. It’s too bad because the premise of this movie was workable. The characters aren’t at odds with each other or the rest of humanity. There is no stupid conflict for the sake of conflict. It’s a simpler tale of survival of the human species with all characters focused on that goal. They just do anything worth watching.