Portals

While the concept suggests mind-bending alternate-reality stuff, the not terribly cerebral reality of the movie offers more in the line of eyeball-gouging, blood-spurting, face-melting shock horror.

Ultimately, the unusual structure seems like a cover for how underdeveloped this film's various segments are.

Not a dimension to which you'll want to cross over.

It is difficult to believe that an actual first encounter with interdimensional beings would be such a complete waste of time.

There's no extra meaning here, and if there is, it's really not worth pursuing. I was done with it when it was done...

Despite an intriguing premise, this film goes absolutely nowhere, opting for random gore as opposed to containing any real ideas.

The cohesion and payoff I was awaiting wasn't coming. Sigh.

Portals ensures connective tissue unites worldwide events within each localized story, but loses the inherent variety of anthology freedoms in doing so.

A sci-fi/horror anthology that tries to tighten the format, but still suffers the usual pace, flow and suspense problems of film anthologies.

There's no character progression, nothing is explained, yet the audience is assaulted with a ton of pointless exposition, wooden acting, and a hilarious ending that's supposed to be tantalizingly ambiguous but instead reeks of desperation.