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The Man From Earth is about a retir­ing pro­fes­sor who chooses to share a story with his learned friends that would have them believe that he was born a cave­man and has been alive all these years. Try as they might, they have a hard time debunk­ing his story and con­sider the pos­si­bil­ity that he may be telling the truth. This movie could eas­ily work as a play or even as an episode of an ongo­ing tele­vi­sion series. The entire thing takes place in or right out­side one house and all in one act. Like an extended episode of the Twi­light Zone, this is a brainy Sci­ence Fic­tion movie devoid of spe­cial effects. The drama unfolds briskly enough but the true enter­tain­ment takes place in the mind of the movie watcher as experts in var­i­ous fields raise in-depth queries that are all dealt with quite well from the story teller. Can this be true, can it really hap­pen? It was also inter­est­ing to watch how these learned men and women deal with the pos­si­bil­ity that much of what they have come to accept comes into question.

This is not a movie for those who are impa­tient or crave action. This is an intel­lec­tual movie or at least high con­cept drama. I found it quite inter­est­ing and enter­tain­ing but not every­body will. There are no major actors in this film to speak of though many of them will be famil­iar from the myr­iad of TV shows they’ve worked on. This is a note­wor­thy film for the right audi­ence but cer­tainly not for chil­dren or fid­gety friends. They’d be bored to tears. For that rea­son I only give it a 3 and a half out of 4 marks.