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How would you react if you could enter a parallel world?

Isaac Ezban’s SF tale is a moderately entertaining take on an idea that we’ve seen multiple times before in screen science fiction – from the differing worlds of Sliders, the Mirror Universe recently resuscitated on Star Trek, and even (complete with Zeppelins which are normally de rigueur in such things) on Doctor Who with David Tennant. This take isn’t so much involved with how a group from our universe would deal with an “evil” (for which read goateed) adversary or version of themselves – there’s a specific prohibition about that sort of interaction – as an opportunity to see the ways anyone could be tempted.

The central quartet are well played, and we see enough of them to have an idea which way they’ll jump when the possibility of fame, fortune, the lusted-after significant other, or healing family rifts is dangled in front of them. It all gets a little tangled as things go on – I did find myself going back a couple of times to confirm things – but it feels as if screenwriter Scott Blaszak and Ezban navigated many of the potential hazards but then went for what felt fun, rather than logical… with some violent ends (one that’s particularly gruesome in a Saw-esque way) along the way.

Verdict: We’re seeing so much about the multiverse at the moment that movies need something more to make them stick out; this is entertaining, but not that special. 5/10

Paul Simpson