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Watch: The Man from Earth 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine..
Plot: An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
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Ratings:

	7.9/10 Votes: 188,367
	100% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1928 Popularity: 13.712 | TMDB

Reviews:

DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE!

Maybe that statement is a little facetious, but I feel it is true. I read **_AMAZING_** reviews for this film. I went in with high hopes, expecting a well acted, thoughtful, existential and quiet science fiction film.

Instead I saw a film so poor I wondered what’s the scam here? How could this film possibly have a score in the high 7s.

The premise is solid at first glance, but as the film moves along it delves deeper and deeper in to melodrama, and then eventually patronising and insulting trash. I am agnostic, but I found the religion bashing heavy handed and unnecessary.

Most of the actors were doing the best they could with the script, but everything comes across flat and lifeless. None of the characters rang true. None of the dialogue sounded like how real people actually talk. If you want to make a science fiction film that shies away from special effects, and instead relies on realism and storytelling, you had better make the dialogue realistic, and the storytelling compelling. Sadly neither are found here.

The look of the film, I get that it is a low budget film made on a single location, but the quality of the film stock! It may seem petty, but I could not get over the thought that I have seen better looking lifetime films. Honestly I have seen better looking daytime soaps from the 80s.

Basically I don’t get why anyone would call this film good, let alone a masterpiece. I have read rave reviews, 10/10 reviews, gushing about how thought provoking and challenging this film was. My thoughts were ones of disdain. My challenge was to finish this abysmal film. Many of the reviews seem to fixate on the fact that the writer of this wrote for the original Star Trek series. That to me is not a good enough reason to rate this film highly.

I honestly felt ripped off by this film. I’ve been told I didn’t get it, but sadly I did. I understood every scene, I understood the implications, I understood the moral dilemmas and deeper meaning of what was being said. It’s just that the deeper meaning was shallow and unconvincing. I’ve been told maybe I should have watched Transformers instead. Just for the record, I was looking forward to a slow, intelligent film minus explosions. Instead I got, this.

3/10, avoid unless you have already drunk the kool-aid and are pre-conditioned to love the film because the writer worked on Star Trek.

I’d like to invite you to **believe the hype**. This movie is very well written and simply great. Keeps you at the edge of your seat and doesn’t fail to amaze you till its very last second.

Fascinating and refreshing, if imperfect
‘The man from Earth’ is science fiction fantasy in concept, not in presentation. It is consciously, inescapably low-key – subdued, restrained, laid-back. The narrative consists wholly of dialogue – recounting history, personal and global; philosophizing, hypothesizing amidst friends and colleagues. There are no active flashbacks, no action scenes, not even a change of scenery beyond the interior or exterior of the abode where the characters are gathered.

And it’s both endearing and engrossing.

The production is staggering in its simplicity, yet weirdly impressive in its craft. Just look at the cast: Richard Riehle, Tony Todd, John Billingsley. Uncomplicated and direct as the performances are, all involved here are great. I’m personally less familiar with Ellen Crawford, William Katt, but the same goes for them.

Writer Jerome Bixby, having died several long years before ‘The man from Earth’ was made, had some very notable credits to his name, and still this screenplay may well be his very greatest achievement. The same goes for director Richard Schenkman, whose list of past works rather seems to culminate with this. His camerawork here is plain and unremarkable, but he pointedly fixes his eye on each actor as the screenplay demands. As much as the film consciously eschews any sense of dynamics, the final emotional beat of the story is told as well with the pen as it is conveyed by the camera, and is a superb capstone.

The end result is a bewitching exploration of an idea, presented as realistically and as plausibly as I think is possible: What if an individual, by genetic quirk, did not age? What if a man living in contemporary times were, in fact, thousands of years old?

Tantalizing and excellent as the film is, ‘The man from Earth’ is not perfect. I personally feel that Mark Hinton Stewart’s score, fine as it may be, is altogether unnecessary in its use as background musical accompaniment. Between Schenkman’s direction and Neil Grieve’s editing, the film is paced much too quickly for my preferences. Ideally this should have been a fair bit longer than 90 minutes: A more patient vision would have allowed more time for crucial story beats, lines of dialogue, and character interactions to manifest, breathe, and digest. As it is, the conversation moves along so quickly that I found myself doubling back multiple times to catch something I missed the first time around. In a feature where the dialogue is paramount, that’s inexcusable.

Even with these flaws in its realization, though, the screenplay is a treasure, and the greatest contributor to the movie’s success. It would be so easy for a tale like this to be needlessly inflated with fiery bombast – an active investigation by police or reporters, chases, suspense, throwing of objects and emotional outbursts. That ‘The man from Earth’ deliberately dispenses with all such notions is a further credit to Bixby’s legacy. The substance of the film is in the discussion and analysis, and anything beyond would have been superfluous.

There’s not much more to say. This is a film appropriate for all audiences, though of course anyone who’s not receptive to a picture centered exclusively on dialogue may be put out. Yet for as straightforward as it is, ‘The man from Earth’ is a fascinating feature, and quietly rewarding. I’m so pleased I had a chance to watch this, and recommend it for all.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 27 min (87 min)
Budget 200000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Director Richard Schenkman
Writer Jerome Bixby
Actors David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, John Billingsley
Country United States
Awards 5 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1
Camera Panasonic AG-DVX100A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Video
Cinematographic Process DV
Printed Film Format 35 mm