18 February 2010

The Man From Earth

Not to be confused with the 35-year-old movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (a personal guilty pleasure), the Man From Earth (2009) has a witty script, is marred by poor production values and suffers from mediocre acting. It would make a brilliant one act play, using a single set. As it is, it's a nice exercise in the "what if" category of a single premise (a person who doesn't age, and so has been around for thousands of years) getting played for maximum speculative effect. Religious history will never look quite the same again.