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RESTORE POINT: Catch The Trailer For The Hit Czech Sci-Fi Thriller Hitting The U.S. On VOD!

Robert Hloz’s landmark sci-fi neo-noir thriller, Restore Point, will release on VOD in the U.S. from February 8 from XYZ Films, and the latest trailer is here. Ours is one of many reviews now circulating online for the film and it’s worth a read if genre titles like these are up your alley. Futuristic murder mystery whodunits, thrilling sequences and footchases are abound in this one with actress Andrea Mohylová leading the way, from a script by Tomislav Cecka and Zdenek Jecelin. A stunning, acclaimed debut feature from writer/director Robert Hloz, Restore Point marks the Czech Republic’s first science fiction film in 40 years – and is packed to the brim with stunning visual effects that Screen International calls “a phenomenal and inventive piece of world-building” and Variety hails as “an impressively slick Czech sci-fi thriller [that’s] ready for the big time!” It’s 2041 and the gaps in social and […]

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Fantasia XXVII Review: In RESTORE POINT, Robert Hloz’s Debut Resuscitates Czech Sci-Fi From Dormancy

Robert Hloz’s feature debut, Restore Point, is a turning point for genre cinema out of the Czech Republic. Reportedly the first film of its kind in the region since Oldřich Lipský’s A Heartfelt Greeting From Earth, Hloz’s film is also the latest to garner the kind of reception likening it to other notable titles with its arena, namely hits like Blade Runner and Minority Report according to Justin Langlois’s Fantasia programming notes. I’d throw it in with a few other notable titles but I simply haven’t seen that many sci-fi movies to lend a fair comparison that wouldn’t get me chewed out by someone with a little more viewing experience than me. Indeed though, Hloz is apt at the genre with a look and production quality that earns its hype, and a story that bodes more as a slow-burn sci-fi crime procedural. It’s an intricately detailed affair that does take […]

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