As a fan of the genre, I'm starting to believe that I've probably seen the majority of time travel/time loop movies that are worth watching. I stumbled across this one from an IMDB list and observed the mixed reviews but decided to give it a go and make up my own mind.
The first 30 minutes were utterly boring and I was close to switching off, but brief moments of potentially interesting activity just about kept me in. There's lots of long and dragged out 'dialogue free' scenes of the lead gormlessly walking about, which fail to build any sort of tension - this kind of thing only works in a film that is actually good. I also wondered if one of the crew had some kind of 'foot fetish' as there seems to be lots of unneccesary focus and shots on the leads bare feet, over and over again. Weird.
Once you're passed the halfway mark there's some mild plot advancements and just about enough suspense to spark ones interest, but there's no denying that the whole thing is just rather flat and mundane. The lack of budget and poor script shows as no actual time travel with the character you are following occurs, nor is there any significant insight in to her 'future self'. We follow the same character, on the same timline and nothing else from the 'other side' is fully explored - just infrequent reminders that some sort of time travel has accured in the background..
The ending is just as flat as the rest of the film and although I didn't find the plot overly complex or hard to fiollow (due to the amount of these type of films I've seen) I cetainly couldn't be bothered to give it any after thought or even try and figure out anything that I might have missed.
A low impact, mediocre film that falls short. Just about worth a watch for time travel fanatics but will leave many underwhlemed. The five stars is generous, only based on the fact that there's a lot worse out there.
The first 30 minutes were utterly boring and I was close to switching off, but brief moments of potentially interesting activity just about kept me in. There's lots of long and dragged out 'dialogue free' scenes of the lead gormlessly walking about, which fail to build any sort of tension - this kind of thing only works in a film that is actually good. I also wondered if one of the crew had some kind of 'foot fetish' as there seems to be lots of unneccesary focus and shots on the leads bare feet, over and over again. Weird.
Once you're passed the halfway mark there's some mild plot advancements and just about enough suspense to spark ones interest, but there's no denying that the whole thing is just rather flat and mundane. The lack of budget and poor script shows as no actual time travel with the character you are following occurs, nor is there any significant insight in to her 'future self'. We follow the same character, on the same timline and nothing else from the 'other side' is fully explored - just infrequent reminders that some sort of time travel has accured in the background..
The ending is just as flat as the rest of the film and although I didn't find the plot overly complex or hard to fiollow (due to the amount of these type of films I've seen) I cetainly couldn't be bothered to give it any after thought or even try and figure out anything that I might have missed.
A low impact, mediocre film that falls short. Just about worth a watch for time travel fanatics but will leave many underwhlemed. The five stars is generous, only based on the fact that there's a lot worse out there.