Restore Point

2023 [CZECH]

Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 95% · 20 reviews
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 515 515

Plot summary

It’s 2041 and the gaps in social and economic inequality have left the world on the brink. A breakthrough in science has given humanity the ability to bring victims of a violent crime back to life by backing up their brain every 2 days. This allows an ambitious, young detective the opportunity to solve a case of a murdered couple when the restoration team is able to bring one of them back.



January 25, 2024 at 04:33 PM

Director

Robert Hloz

Top cast

Adam Vacula as Peter Trochinowski
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1012.75 MB
1280*536
Czech 2.0
NR
25 fps
1 hr 50 min
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2.03 GB
1920*804
Czech 5.1
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25 fps
1 hr 50 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by pidala-68459 8 / 10

Revolutionary movie for a Czech movie industry

It's really hard to review this movie objectively beying Czech, it doesn't look really comparable to Hollywood movies with massive budgets (and you have to know that before you visit cinema, don't expect Blade Runner with massive long shots to cyberpunk cities), but it's welcomed change here in our country, you have to consider how cheap this movie was (less then 2 milion eur).

Also you have to consider what kind of movies we normaly do, this is our first sci-fi after like 60 years! And after 2022 Jan Zizka (Medieval in English) this is the second try to do something more worldwide looking after many years, our film makers normaly don't even try, they make just TV movies targeted to a Czech viewer or fairytales or stupid comedy movies which are really low quality (which is sad, because our old comedy movies are really good), but Medieval had 10 times higher budget and looks worse than this super cheap movie.

Movie is just detective story from cyberpunk future, nothing too complicated, there are some nice ideas and moral dilemats, creators say that they worked on that for 9 years, so people who say it's stealing from Altered Carbon should consider that it's just a coincidence, the same asi similarities to Cyberpunk 2077.

Movie takes place somewhere in "central Europe" and names and places are selected on purpose that you don't exactly know where it is, some names are Czech, some Polish, some sounds German and city is mix of Prague, Warsaw and few other cities, but due to low budget, the vast majority of shots is very short and places where something is really doing on are small, similar to TV movies or theater, which is logical with that budget, part of movie takes place in comunity of people who deny technology, which is a logical way to save money, but I noticed that a lot of people hate the movie for not beying enough sci-fi and Cyberpunk, they have to know the budget! It's a miracle what they did with that money and it's just a start, if it earns money, they have big plans with this universe, so please support this movie made by new young creators with mostly new actors and actresses and you will get more in the future.

Reviewed by xzhqcbpth 10 / 10

Worth watching

After a long time , a really good movie made in Czech and Slovak Republic.

The story was something new , not heard of, and it really caught your attention. Camera work and music was amazing too.

This is a proof that you don't need millions and millions of dollars an CGI to make a good movie if you have a talent.

This movie easily has a potential to be a competition even for a Hollywood movies , because sometimes the simplicity and good story is more than hundreds of special effects , that try to cover nonexistent story.

I hope this is the direction Czech and Slovak movies are going to. Good work!

Reviewed by ichsachmalso 8 / 10

Wow!

The special effects and world building in this film were superb! I love how all the sci fi elements were a natural part of that society, even though it was so similar to ours. A lot of things were so subtle.

The story beats weren't anything new and some of the scenes dragged on a bit (probably didn't help that they were showing the film really late and everyone's eyes struggled to read the subtitles nearing midnight) but overall I found watching Restore Point a very enjoyable experience.

More of this type of world building please! :) Big studios really have no excuse for their substandard cgi if yours can look this good.

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