And Then an Asteroid Falls. Roll Camera:

I dunno how many of you have even heard of the flick +1 (or Plus One as it's written). it's this sci-fi (really sci-fantasy) flick about a post-high school party and this weird asteroid that sets off a second set of duplicates and then carnage and stuff... I'm doing a really poor job of describing it.

Basically, we start with plot. David, a vaguely douchey college kid, visits his girlfriend, Jill, at her college to watch her fencing match. While there, he kisses another girl and Jill runs off (thus establishing that David is a shallow character we probably shouldn't like -- this does not change through out the movie). Days (or weeks or months, who know) later, a big party is going on in David's home town. David heads to it with his friend, Teddy, and lo-and-behold, Jill shows up as well on the arm of some new dude. Now David has to find a way to get Jill to like him again before the credits roll.

Oh and an asteroid hits near the party and causes these weird power surges... and then duplicates of all the party goers show up, half-an-hour behind the "originals". Characters have to decide if the duplicates are good or bad; will they attack us or befriend us? (I suppose there's a thread of "who is the real me now" but since all the characters are shallow post-high school idiots, it's hard to really care).

I'm being rather harsh on the movie, but that's only because, from a story telling perspective, it absolutely deserves it. There are gaps in the story that would give the existential thriller aspects of the plot better resonance (how does the asteroid's magic work? why did it show up? are the duplicates just electricity-based clones or parallels from another world? give me some damn answers!).

And the ending! Gods the ending! Without spoiling it (just in case you want to see it for the weird dpublicates story idea) suffice it to say one of the main characters acts like an ass through out the movie and yet still manages to get rewarded in the end. Gah!

Conceptually I liked where the flick was headed. It was well acted, well directed, and from a certain perspective everything flowed together well during the story (nothing was confusingly filmed even if the story doesn't make much sense on second pass). I just wanted the movie to come together better than it did and was left severely disappointed by the result.