Uncertainty

2009 "The choice is theirs."
5.7| 1h41m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 15 November 2009 Released
Producted By: Kinocorp
Country: United States of America
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Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby and Kate are a young New York couple at a crossroads whose lives are about to take very different directions. A seemingly ordinary July 4th is cleaved in two by the flip of a coin. One path leads them to gentle discoveries about family, loss and each other on a visit to Brooklyn, and the other plunges them into an urban nightmare of pursuit, suspense and murder in Manhattan.

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Wordiezett So much average
Console best movie i've ever seen.
Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life
Freaktana A Major Disappointment
hershog This movie had such potential, but it turned out to be just another bore hole. I will never understand where directors and producers think moving forward and backward through time is a good idea. The acting was sub par, the story line was much worse. The movie felt hurried and left the audience with more questions than answers. All in all, I see why the movie grossed 37,000.00There were bad guys and worse guys in the movie, but we learned nothing from them. All we know is that someone wanted a phone returned but the true reason is never revealed. Why the director thought this was a good idea will forever baffle this movie buff.
bowmanblue Uncertainty is about a young couple of flip a coin to decide what they're going to do with the rest of their day. We, the viewers, are then treated to two different intermingling stories (parallel universes if you like) involving the same couple and showing us what happened along each path.It's kind of like Sliding Doors, but with a bit more action in it. One story involves the couple on the run from dangerous gangsters and the other involves them going home to their family.Now, it could just be me (I prefer the 'action' genre generally), but I found the half of the film dedicated to the couple on the run from the gang to be the far more entertaining of the two, while the story about them confronting issues with their family a little dull.It could just be me. Maybe someone who prefers drama over action would prefer the other one. Either way, everyone plays their part pretty well and there are worse films to watch.
Neil Welch Kate and Bobbie, on Brooklyn Bridge on July 4, toss a coin to decide whether they should spend the day with Kate's large family, or do something else. The film then splits, and they do both. They head into Brooklyn, wearing green, to dive into the soapy goings on with Kate's family: a senile uncle, a broken computer, a Mother who doesn't care for Bobby, whether they should tell anyone Kate is pregnant etc.. And they head into New York, wearing yellow, to deal with the consequences of having found a phone which belongs to criminals. The yellow and green stories are intercut.Kudos to co-writers, producers and directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel for getting their movie from concept to screen. This is a good idea, nicely presented, well acted and well directed.Unfortunately, it's also a bit boring, and this is almost certainly not helped by the fact that dialogue was improvised rather than scripted. The crime thriller story engages the attention more, but the soapy story has the lion's share of screen time, especially in the second half. And neither story is resolved particularly satisfactorily.There was a better film to be made from this idea.
leplatypus For one time, there is a American movie who just wants to tell stories about an ordinary young couple and offers a new angle to shoot it: parallel lives. So there's a sure freshness coming from the movie and I encourage those choices. In addition, it's shot almost continuously on locations in NYC, in summer so it has energy, punch and coolness. The cast revolves around two sympathetic and promising new faces that are now all alone on the poster, Lynn and the smiling "Robin". There's a good chemistry between them and I was on their side.Unfortunately, the hopes don't make a good movie. The opening is awful: long still shots, with cryptic sentences and cut by black screen is a sure way to destroy any coherence. The couple then divides, running opposite on the bridge and then, we have the two stories, yellow and green, for Independence Day. If the yellow part about the found phone is a thriller, the other part is a dull soap in a family reunion. But, coherence, believability are left on the way as Lynn's family is totally Latino (why?) with dumb characters (Diego, the disappeared brother) and the chase is unrealistic (they are left by police when they report a murder, the criminal knows exactly in what building they have run...). And frankly, the parallel lives concept isn't very used: there's one event that happens in the two time-lines (the friend's party) but except that, you really think it's rather two couples played by the same cast as facts are really attached to one choice, either green (pregnancy, family) or yellow (job, home).So, finally, it's a movie that walks outside the usual paths, that is well played and directed but that's very poorly scripted.