Man with No Past

Imagine a move that's a real certifiable steaming pile. Go it?. . .

Ok, now, imagine another movie that's also a real steaming pile. Go it?. . . . .

Okay. Now, imagine these two steaming piles get together and have a baby.

That's Man With No Past.

The reason I put "No Spoiler" as the title is because you can't 'spoil' this movie no matter how hard you try. It arrived already spoilt, you see.

It is so bad, anything you do to it would be an improvement. If you got all copies of it and burned them, that would be a huge improvement!

If you don't believe me, then see it yourself and find out.

You will not be surprised!!!

This movie has an interesting concept. However, it takes forever to get there and could have been a lot sharper and snappier. (and shorter, but I always say that)... One could hope that eventually Ryder gets his happy ending but sadly it seems he's doomed to continue with the never ending saga of attempting to rescue the girl and her Mother. At least he finally gets to know love in this one. Perhaps the next step will be to grow on that - I suspect that will depend on Mr Chaos himself.

The good guy gives off Terence Hill vibes with his American accent slipping. Younger viewers will have to look that up I suppose. Lol.

The movie is an action movie but the storyline is quite a bit convoluted, dealing with the idea of repetition of lives and cosmic forces.

The quality of the movie overall is decent, nothing is amazing but nothing is bad either. Few of the actors are quite good, obviously Jon Voight and also Marton Csokas who needs to get more villain roles, he is great in them.

Action scenes are not bad but seem like the type of scenes that I've seen before elsewhere, with the camera near the action moving about and with the action changing from normal speed to slow motion to normal speed. It looks more of a comic book movie type action. It is done competently.

The violence isn't too graphic and there is a modest sex scene where nothing much is revealed.

I wasn't expecting much from this and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. The plot was interesting and I liked that it wasn't confusing , considering it's going back in forth in time. It was well shot, the performances were OK, although it was obvious at times Adam Woodward is not American. In the end though, that didn't matter as Mr. Woodward is so charismatic on screen and the camera loves him. Whoever directed this movie and whoever shot it, knew to use many close-ups of his handsome, flawless face. The entire production had a nice atmosphere and there was genuine chemistry between the leads. This is obviously not a Hollywood big budget production which was a good thing. B Movies tend to be much more interesting than what Hollywood currently churns out. I would recommend giving this a watch for Adam.

Is boring. It's boring because it is as chaotic as flash cards are at a 5th grade foreign language class. Indeed, it appears the director was just as bored; doing one disjointed scene after another just to get through his contract.

I pity the actors who signed on and then had to suffer the direction.

To that add the storyline is a pretty well used theme ( flip-flopping to and fro in a timeline.) The difference here is it flips and flops so frequently you forget where the base point is?

Character development has little "time," in the flip-flops to develop. And so, the viewer is left with their own devices to sort things out; which might be fun in a well written novel. But in a film that typically last less than 200 minutes a lot of artistry has to happen. It did not happen here. Instead it's a hod podge of unbelievable scenes knitted together and presented as "A Film." It is just that. But not a very good film.