![]() ![]() Soon one of them is dead, while the others suffer home invasions and other threats from the project’s shadowy enemies. Not enough so, however, to effectively distract us from being stuck with five quarrelsome strangers on a Zoom call. It is also said that if it is not reactivated pronto, “a globe-killing disaster event” will ensue. Just what it is or does we never quite figure out, though terms like “alien technology,” “AI,” “teleportation” and “resetting the space-time continuum” get tossed around. They’ve been called upon in order to reactivate the Quantinuum Initiative, some kind of machine based on Finley’s “singular truth” discovery that was apparently shut down by his foes within the company. Thus the junior Hart, caring for a baby at home while his wife is out of town, is not particularly pleased when a mysterious package delivery prompts an online meetup with four other people currently or formerly tied to Hart Enterprises: Snarky tech chief Trevor Williams (Aleks Paunovic) in Seattle humorless German legal rep Veronica Schultz (Veronica Ferres) Japanese “chief innovation officer” Riku Matsuda (TJ Kayama) in Japan and board of directors chair Hakan Nordquist (Martin Stenmarck) in Sweden. Already widowed, he then purportedly died of kidney failure, orphaning a now-adult son (Chris Brochu as Sam) he pretty much ignored while alive. Opening fictitious news footage encapsulates the career of Finley Hart (Hopkins), “enigmatic” genius behind an Apple-like tech empire he was eventually ousted from. ![]() It’s hard to believe any viewers will return for two (presumably non-Zoom) in-progress sequels once they’ve waded through this Lionsgate release. All telling, no showing, the tediously convoluted opener for a planned trilogy is not at all brightened by intermittent appearances from Anthony Hopkins, the principal “star power” here. ![]()
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