We are on the lookout for best movies streaming now. In this process, we came across popular movies on Prime Video and landed up watching Bliss, directed by Mike Cahill, a science fiction that almost everyone is watching these days. Here is our Bliss movie review but with solid spoiler alert!
Bliss – the latest Sci-Fi on Prime Video is a disappointment all the way. This 1 hour 45 minutes long futuristic tale never seems to pick up.
What is Bliss about (Spoiler Alert)
Based on the story of Greg (Owen Wilson) who is living two lives – a real one and another one in his fantasies, Bliss is about his realisation of what’s important and is worth fighting for and what is just make-believe. To make him realise that his fantasy life is actually a simulation of a science project, enters a mysterious woman Isabel (Salma Hayek). She takes Greg in and out of his two lives and introduces him to the so-called Bliss – A perfect life. A beautiful world without pollution, riches all around, love in the air 24X7, so on and so forth. Greg who never liked his dead-end 9 to 5 job wants to stay in that Bliss forever but then his daughter keeps entering the real and virtual world and Greg finds it impossible to let go of his real life.
But is the daughter real? Or she is also a computer-simulated character?
Why No Bliss?
The interesting, almost seductive plot got us excited about the film, and even before we started watching it, it felt we already were in love with it. But half an hour into the movie and we realised it’s just not getting anywhere. You still understand Greg’s unfulfilled life but what is Isabel’s problem you don’t get to know till the end. Popping yellow and blue crystals to enter and exit realities was absolutely juvenile. Did they invite some kids for the scripting sessions?
All’s (un)well that ends (un)well
The climax is confusing to the extent that you don’t even care to find the answers. Unlike its name, Bliss leaves you feeling nothing. You just don’t feel any emotion for any of the characters. Both the leading actors are ok in what they do but you can’t connect with any of them. The rest of the cast is so unnoticeable like they don’t even exist.
Enough said. Our advice – miss this Bliss.
Also, read our review of another movie on Prime Video – The Last Color. We didn’t like it much but after watching Bliss we like it a little better 🙂
Oh what a shame! I was expecting more of Bliss too and it’s bad that the movie goes nowhere even after half an hour into the movie. Thanks for the review.
Thanks for such detailed but honest review. Definitely saved my time as was planning to watch it this weekend.
Thanks for the perfect review. Though I’m not a fan of sci-fi movies but still sometimes watch for the reviews.
Thanks a tonne for the candid review, you saved my 2 hours, I was planning to watch it this weekend. But now I am sure it is worth missing it. If the story has no substantial plot, then it is definitely not worth clinging to.
Thanks for saving my time on this.. Will take your review up for it
We watched many a movie and web series on Netflix last year. But we missed Bliss. In fact, we were wondering if we had missed a lot by missing to watch Bliss. But reading your post, makes us realize that missing Bliss was not a miss at all.