Tim Smit directed the new science fiction film "Kill Switch" starring Dan Stevens about a physicist recruited by a power company to work on an energy tower causing anomalies between dimensions. The tower is destroying a mirror Earth called "The Echo" and its inhabitants have their own tower. The physicist is sent to The Echo with a device called the "Redivider" meant to balance power transfer but actually acts as a kill switch that could destroy one world to save the other. A review says while the film's visual effects are impressive for a low budget, the themes could have been more developed and it feels like a game demo that can't be played, though the director's talent remains in technical effects.

1. Tygo Gernandt

2. "Kill Switch" - They ClonedOur World
22 June 2017 7:44 PM, PDT| SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Sneak Peek the new science fiction feature "Kill Switch" (aka "Redivider")
directed by Tim Smit, starring Dan Stevens, Bérénice Marlohe, Tygo Gernandt,
Charity Wakefield, Bas Keijzer, Mike Libanon and Mike Reus:
"...sometimein the near future, physicistand former 'Nasa' pilot 'Will Porter'is
recruited by 'Alterplex', a power company that has built a massivetower that
taps into unlimited quantum energy.
"When strangeanomalies occur around the world that are blamed on the
tower, it is revealed it is destroying a mirror universeEarth...
"...referred to as 'The Echo' and that the inhabitants there also havean energy
tower.
"Porter is sentto The Echo with a device called the 'Redivider' believing it will
balance the power transfer between the two universes and set things right.
"Instead helearns the device is a kill switch that will destroy The Echo forcing
him to decide which universeto sacrificein order to savethe other..."
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- Michael Stevens

4. FilmReview:‘Kill Switch’
14 June 2017 5:21 PM, PDT| Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film
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In 2009, a pair of young filmmakers from the Netherlands, Tim Smit and Steven
Roeters, made “What’s in the Box?,” a 10-minutescience-fiction shortthat
wedded the first-person camera of video games like “Half-Life” with
astonishing cut-rate special effects — all at a reported cost of €150. For his
debut feature “Kill Switch,” Smit has expanded the shortinto a full feature,
with rising star Dan Stevens in the lead role, and the effects are again
incredibly resourcefulon a limited budget, from futuristic security drones and
weaponry to “Robocop”-esquegraphic interfaces and an alternate Earth. Had
Smit developed his themes as scrupulously as his visualeffects, “Kill Switch”
might have been the next “Primer” or “District 9,” but instead it feels like a
demo reel for a game that nobody can play. Stevens’ name may bring some
new sci-fidevotees to Smit’s digital playground, buthis most evident talent
remains strictly below-the-line. »
- Scott Tobias
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