Film Review – The Assessment

“The Assessment” is a film about the future. As with most pictures looking to the world of tomorrow, things aren’t great, and screenwriters Dave Thomas, Nell Garfath-Cox, and John Donnelly maintain a dystopian view with the material, which returns viewers to a ruined Earth filled with weary, detached citizens. The difference here is a question of continuation, as the tale examines the arduous process of becoming a parent when fertility is no longer an option. “The Assessment” spends most of its run time as a psychological test, and director Fleur Fortune (a music video veteran) does a capable job generating intense points of pressure on the characters as they push to realize a dream. What this hope actually is makes up the real mystery of “The Assessment,” which contains a strange power for the most part, getting into the struggles of responsibility and the nerve pinch of doubt, delivering a mostly successful behavioral puzzle. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com