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The Fix (2024): Review and Summary

“The Fix” is a reminder that sci-fi productions don’t always need a major backer to look good and hold something compelling.

ByAmari Allah Hours Posted onNovember 25, 2024 8:50 PMDecember 3, 2024 6:14 PM Hours Updated onDecember 3, 2024 6:14 PM

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  • Plot Summary
    • Character Descriptions
      • Ella
      • Dr. Eric O'Connor
      • Solomon
      • Spider
      • Tully
      • Gina
    • Other Noteworthy Information
  • Review
    • Audience
    • Highlights
      • You Don't See Visible Budget Constraints
      • It Has An Accessible and Believable Story
    • On The Fence
      • It Sets Up A Sequel
  • What To Check Out Next

Film Length1 Hour 38 Minutes
Release DateNovember 22, 2024
Advisory RatingNot Rated
Initially Available On/ViaVideo On Demand
Genre(s)Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
DistributorGravitas Ventures
DirectorKelsey Egan
WriterKelsey Egan
Character NameActor
EllaGrace Van Dien
Dr. Eric O’ConnorDaniel Sharman
SolomonKeenan Arrison
SpiderTina Redman
TullyTafara Nyatsanza
GinaRobyn Rossouw

Plot Summary

In “The Fix,” the world has gotten past the point of being saved, and people in South Africa aren’t worried about the rise in sea levels but the lack of breathable air. At this point, 68% of people live in “Red Zones,” where the air is the most hostile, and it is expected to increase to 83% of the planet in a few years.

This is not a significant issue for those like Ella who can afford the pills Dr. Eric O’Connors’ company, Aethera makes, known as AIrem. However, folks like Solomon and Spider, who aren’t Eric’s target market of the wealthy, educated, and well-bred, don’t like the exclusivity of this semi-cure. So, they work on something more long-term, accessible, and potentially permanent.

Thanks to her boyfriend, Tully, Ella finds herself in the middle of these two men. They get into a fight, as does Ella with her best friend Gina, and she takes the drug Solomon made that Tully took for his party. This leads to notable results that transform Ella and could save the world.

Character Descriptions

Ella

Ella (Grace Van Dien)

Ella is a second-generation model who feels like she lives a life without purpose. This bothers her deeply and affects her relationships. She struggles with feeling like her identity is so wrapped up in who her mom was and her being pretty.

  • The actor is also known for their role in ” Stranger Things: Season 4.”

Dr. Eric O’Connor

Dr. Eric O’Connor (Daniel Sharman)

Dr. Eric O’Connors is the face of Aethera Corp and the lead regarding its production of not only its mainline AIRemedy, made to allow humans to breathe Earth’s air but also a synthetic version he is desperate to create.

  • The actor is also known for their role in “Cursed.”

Solomon

Solomon (Keenan Arrison)

Solomon is a scientist trying to create something akin to what Dr. O’Connors is, to allow humanity to breathe on the surface again easily, but he wants it accessible to all and not a select few.

Spider

Spider (Tina Redman)

Spider is Solomon’s right hand. Although she has no background in science, she is skilled in explosives and combat, which makes her the perfect bodyguard.

Tully

Tully (Tafara Nyatsanza)

Tully is Ella’s boyfriend at the beginning of “The Fix.”

Gina

Gina (Robyn Rossouw)

Gina is Ella’s best friend who she latched onto after her mother left. This role overwhelms Gina a bit.

Other Noteworthy Information

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  • Movie Contains: Cursing, Gun Violence, Blood, Notable Fight Scenes, (Implied) Nudity, Criminal Acts (Attempted Assault), Body Horror, Drinking, Drug Use, Vomiting
  • The distributor is also known for “Slotherhouse.”

Review

Our Rating: Positive (Worth Seeing)

Audience

“The Fix” is for sci-fans who love it when the production takes place outside of the United States or Europe and deals with a dystopian world and what the average person is doing to survive as the rise of corporate overlords begins. But, rather than the hero being a soldier or anything like that, they are a fairly normal person put into an extraordinary circumstance.

Highlights

You Don’t See Visible Budget Constraints

One thing that holds a lot of sci-fi productions back, especially indie ones, is the budget. You can see certain effects didn’t have the time or tech to look good, maybe the makeup seemed more amateur than indie, and it ruins the immersion. “The Fix” doesn’t have that issue. With its seemingly more practical effects than anything, as you see Ella change, at times it is gruesome, at other times it is cool, and even when it comes to things that can’t be done with prosthetics and makeup, like hologram technology, it looks good.

I’d even say the lack of polish to make things look real. It pushes the idea that technology in “The Fix” might be advanced and mass-market but isn’t perfect by any means—likely thanks to still having trouble with getting full bars anywhere.

It Has An Accessible and Believable Story

I’d be the first to tell you that when sci-fi stories push to be taken too seriously, they often lose me. I can appreciate the advancements humanity makes, but add in people trying to give dramatic performances as they say the most comically sounding words and the immersion is broken. With “The Fix,” the drama and seriousness are there since humanity is going through a crisis that could wipe out our population. But, there is also the personal drama which won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, for who is looking for a sci-fi where the lead has boy trouble?

But that said, there is enough balance between world-ending trouble and personal drama to make things feel believable and accessible, even as Ella begins to seem like she is in an alternate-universe X-Men story.

On The Fence

It Sets Up A Sequel

“The Fix” isn’t a complete film. It sets up a sequel, and heaven knows indie films getting sequels, especially when they didn’t get a theatrical release, is not too common. So, while “The Fix” gives you a decent movie to consume, what humanity will do in the long term is unclear. Never mind when it comes to Eric and what he does; what the comeuppance will be is not presented on screen. What we get is Ella’s new beginning, her means of breaking away from her mother’s legacy, but because she took Solomon’s drug, still being at a point where someone else’s work still defines her.

Yet, where things end, she has the opportunity to be a new kind of model for the future of mankind, assuming there aren’t undiscovered long-term risks.

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The Fix (2024): Review and Summary

Movie title: The Fix

Movie description: “The Fix” is a reminder that sci-fi productions don’t always need a major backer to look good and hold something compelling.

Date published: November 22, 2024

Country: USA

Duration: 1 Hour 38 Minutes

Author: Amari Allah

Director(s): Kelsey Egan

Actor(s): Grace Van Dien, Daniel Sharman, Keenan Arrison, Tina Redman, Tafara Nyatsanza, Robyn Rossouw

Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Summary

While “The Fix” sets up a sequel that may never come, it balances out the necessary elements of a sci-fi movie, with enough human and dystopian world drama, to be accessible, likable, and make you want, but not necessarily clamor, for the pitched sequel.

Overall
8/10
8/10
  • It Sets Up A Sequel - 7.6/10
    7.6/10
  • It Has An Accessible and Believable Story - 8.2/10
    8.2/10
  • You Don’t See Visible Budget Constraints - 8.3/10
    8.3/10
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Pros

  • You Don’t See Visible Budget Constraints
  • It Has An Accessible and Believable Story

Cons

  • It Sets Up A Sequel

Listed Under Categories: Movies, Positive (Worth Seeing)

Related Tags: Action, Adventure, Daniel Sharman, Drama, Grace Van Dien, Gravitas Ventures, Indie, Keenan Arrison, Kelsey Egan, Not Rated, Robyn Rossouw, Sci-Fi, Tafara Nyatsanza, Thriller, Tina Redman, Video On Demand

Amari Allah

Amari is the founder and head writer of Wherever-I-Look.com and has been writing reviews since 2010, with a focus on dramas and comedies.

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