Plaion Pictures have announced the release of the highly anticipated Restore Point. The Czech Sci-Fi Noir is available now on Digital Download including to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video in the UK. Directed by Robert Hloz, Restore Point stars Andrea Mohylová, Matěj Hádek, Václav Neužil, Milan Ondrík and Karel Dobrý. Featuring stunning retro-futuristic design, this extremely stylish sci-fi thriller explores mankind’s fascination with mortality is reminiscent of Blade Runner and Minority Report.
Short Synopsis:
Set in central Europe during 2041, a female detective investigates the case of a murdered couple where a restoration team is able to bring one of them back to life.
Imagine you’re living in the year 2041, when you have the right to be brought back to life if you die in an accident or suffer an otherwise unnatural death. All you need to do is regularly make a digital backup of your personality – a Restore Point.
Short Synopsis:
Set in central Europe during 2041, a female detective investigates the case of a murdered couple where a restoration team is able to bring one of them back to life.
Imagine you’re living in the year 2041, when you have the right to be brought back to life if you die in an accident or suffer an otherwise unnatural death. All you need to do is regularly make a digital backup of your personality – a Restore Point.
- 4/18/2024
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Robert Hloz’s debut is a competent copy of Hollywood sci-fi, but it’s too heavily indebted to its influences to develop its own philosophy
Apparently the first sci-fi film from the Czech Republic in 40 years, this so-called Czech Blade Runner is actually equally indebted to Minority Report (whose domestic futurism continues to be quietly influential). Like Tom Cruise’s character in Steven Spielberg’s film, detective Em Trochinowska (Andrea Mohylová) is a cop prone to brooding over clips of an absent loved one. Her concert pianist husband was murdered by members of the Rivers of Life terrorist group, who are outraged by the nature-flouting “restoration” technology that allows any recently snuffed person to be resurrected.
Bad news for those who don’t clear out their inboxes regularly: the technology only works if you have bothered to upload your memories within the last 48 hours. Where Minority Report riffed on the notion of pre-crime,...
Apparently the first sci-fi film from the Czech Republic in 40 years, this so-called Czech Blade Runner is actually equally indebted to Minority Report (whose domestic futurism continues to be quietly influential). Like Tom Cruise’s character in Steven Spielberg’s film, detective Em Trochinowska (Andrea Mohylová) is a cop prone to brooding over clips of an absent loved one. Her concert pianist husband was murdered by members of the Rivers of Life terrorist group, who are outraged by the nature-flouting “restoration” technology that allows any recently snuffed person to be resurrected.
Bad news for those who don’t clear out their inboxes regularly: the technology only works if you have bothered to upload your memories within the last 48 hours. Where Minority Report riffed on the notion of pre-crime,...
- 3/26/2024
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
When it comes to tackling sci-fi you do so at your own peril and for Robert Hloz’s, Restore Point, it is stylistically bold but falls victim to its own complicated ideas.
Part of the Czech, Please! strand this year at the Glasgow Film Festival it showcases a variety of Czech cinema and includes a diverse range of films. In what is its Scottish Premiere, Restore Point appears in the line-up as a sci-fi crime thriller set in 2041 in a society where unnatural deaths can be remedied.
You instantly get Blade Runner vibes with its aesthetics and it is visually impressive with small details making a big difference. Some shots of a sprawling skyline with distinct futuristic buildings look great and helps to immerse you in this world.
The social commentary throughout is particular relevant especially the notion of society’s ever-increasing reliance on technology. It touches on how the...
Part of the Czech, Please! strand this year at the Glasgow Film Festival it showcases a variety of Czech cinema and includes a diverse range of films. In what is its Scottish Premiere, Restore Point appears in the line-up as a sci-fi crime thriller set in 2041 in a society where unnatural deaths can be remedied.
You instantly get Blade Runner vibes with its aesthetics and it is visually impressive with small details making a big difference. Some shots of a sprawling skyline with distinct futuristic buildings look great and helps to immerse you in this world.
The social commentary throughout is particular relevant especially the notion of society’s ever-increasing reliance on technology. It touches on how the...
- 3/5/2024
- by Thomas Alexander
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
You have to admire the moxie of authors and filmmakers who set their science-fiction spectaculars in the very near future, essentially confronting viewers with what may seem a pretty outlandish forecast for their own lives. Those that pull it off present us with possibilities resonant enough to ponder, even when they’re too far-fetched to actively fear: So it proves in “Restore Point,” a sharp, high-shine sci-fi outing from the Czech Republic, in which earthly life after death is routine, a cellular rather than spiritual matter.
Set in an unspecified (though Czech-speaking) central Europe in the year 2041, director Robert Hloz’s whopper of a calling-card debut may offer a more credibly subdued, budget-constrained visual of the mid-21st century than the lavishly built “Blade Runner 2049” — unless we’re in for a drastic design (r)evolution over the course of the 2040s — but its ideas are sky-high in concept. Marrying...
Set in an unspecified (though Czech-speaking) central Europe in the year 2041, director Robert Hloz’s whopper of a calling-card debut may offer a more credibly subdued, budget-constrained visual of the mid-21st century than the lavishly built “Blade Runner 2049” — unless we’re in for a drastic design (r)evolution over the course of the 2040s — but its ideas are sky-high in concept. Marrying...
- 7/7/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Who is the breakout CGI starlet of the summer? It certainly isn’t Ruby Gillman, the “teenage kraken” that gurgled at the box office this weekend. The Little Mermaid? Try again. No, the animated ingenue that has captured internet users’ hearts is Katie (voiced by Mahulena Bocanová) — the buxom, blonde love interest from Goat Story: The Old Prague Legends. And what is Goat Story, you may ask? It’s an independent animated film from the Czech Republic released in 2008 that — for some inconclusive reason — has become a social media sensation in 2023.
The movie, available to watch on YouTube, is set in the early 1400s and tells the story of a Czech peasant named Jemmy (Matej Hádek) who comes to Prague with his goat to help build the city’s Astronomical Clock. (The actual clock has since become a tourist mecca for Goat Story lovers.) Jemmy meets Katie; Jemmy falls for...
The movie, available to watch on YouTube, is set in the early 1400s and tells the story of a Czech peasant named Jemmy (Matej Hádek) who comes to Prague with his goat to help build the city’s Astronomical Clock. (The actual clock has since become a tourist mecca for Goat Story lovers.) Jemmy meets Katie; Jemmy falls for...
- 7/3/2023
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Keep an eye on this one! Continental Film has released a first look trailer for a slick Czech sci-fi movie called Restore Point, a reference to the video game idea of "save points". This will premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival next month. It looks considerably impressive, with a number of fantastic shots in this teaser alone. The story of the film is set in 2041, when humanity uses special tech and the constitution guarantees all citizens the right to "one whole life". After an unnatural death, like a car accident, a person can be fully restored from their digital backup. It is enough to regularly create a digital backup of your personality every two days - a "restore point". But does humanity even deserve the right to a second chance? The plot follows a detective investigating the case of a murdered couple when a restoration team can only bring one of them back.
- 6/5/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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