Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
On Quartile, Parallels scores 6/10 across five categories — strongest on Plot (Above Average), weakest on Acting (Below Average).
An underground MMA fighter must confront his sister and his past in an adventure through parallel universes
Parallels is a low-budget sci-fi TV pilot that was repackaged as a film, which explains its most glaring flaw: it ends abruptly with no resolution, functioning more as a backdoor pilot than a standalone story. The parallel universe concept has some inventive world-building moments and the multiverse-as-building conceit is mildly distinctive, earning modest novelty points. However, the acting is unremarkable and the characters are thinly sketched, the cinematography is functional at best with a TV-movie aesthetic, and the plot is underdeveloped given the runtime. The non-ending is genuinely frustrating for viewers expecting a complete narrative, dragging the ending score to the floor.