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First thought was yeah, more of Brea Grant, that would be awesome. However, as the movie progressed, the more I realised that there should only be one Brea Grant! It's a fun little movie, a bit slow on the pace and comedic value, but worth a watch.

I stumbled upon the 2022 sci-fi horror comedy "Madelines" without ever having heard about it. So of course I sat down to watch it and see what writers Brea Grant and Jason Richard Miller had to offer, because I will admit that the movie's synopsis definitely sounded interesting.

And while the concept idea behind this movie actually was interesting and clever enough, then director Jason Richard Miller just didn't manage to put out a movie that was overly entertaining to me. The movie's narrative was just too slow paced and too little of any worth or interest happened as the movie made snail pace. So it was a difficult movie to endure and sit through.

As I mentioned above, then I liked the concept of the storyline, but one thing was script and idea, while another thing was transition to screen and bringing the story to life. I just have to say that "Madelines" was a swing and a miss for me.

The acting performances in the movie were adequate. It was a really, really small cast ensemble, so the performers had to do exceptionally well to carry the movie. Unfortunately they had the script and the narrative working against them.

Visually then "Madelines" was mediocre. It wasn't, however, a movie that was relying too much on special effects. And a good thing actually, because the special effects weren't exactly outstanding or grand.

I am sure that there is an audience out there for a movie such as "Madelines". I just happened to not be a part of that audience.

My rating of "Madelines" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

The implementation is very slow and boring.

If you only have 2-3 actors and do everything on a small scale, they have to be completely convincing.

But nobody does that, and you torment yourself through the film.

The writers watched Primer and went "Ok, let's steal this, but make it dumber, so nobody notices." It's slow, the plot goes nowhere, and it's unoriginal. Even by low budget, indie standards, it's bad.

Seriously, rather watch the original they plagiarised this from.

The worst about this movie is the hope that you need to have, that at the end everything will make sense. Spoiler alert: it doesn't!

This movie is not bad per se. I was able to watch it until the end, unlike many other movies. The concept and the idea are great.

The execution however is quite poor.

The movie is confusing, but not in the sense that you missed something and you can rewatch and get it. No, the whole movie is messy and confusing because that was how this movie was designed.

Seriously, if you haven't watch it yet, save yourself a time travel back in time and skip it. You will get confused, not about the plot but about why did you just watch this instead of watching a good movie about time travel. They even suggest two better alternatives: Back To The Future and Timecop.

If you watch this film you will hate yourself at the end for having wasted so much time. The concept was interesting, the execution, writing, directing, special effects were AWFUL. The ending made no sense and they even tried to show an end scene to attempt to explain part of it but again the execution was terrible and you are left with more questions than answers.

It's like watching a sci-fi/horror movie directed by Joey(The handsome guy). Rest you know. It's the same low budget sci-fi movies . You can finish the movie by skipping the boring part, if you are a pro .

Everyone who rated this movie below a 5 obviously hasn't seen the rest of the movies rated below 5. The movie has heart and has a message that I won't iterate because it would be a spoiler. The ending, I believe was chosen so that it would be unexpected or a surprise. The surprise ending spoils the message because it doesn't deliver the intended message. I mean it could but maybe it doesn't because the ending leaves the time beyond a certain point as a mystery. Therefore any message you believe to be there is just uncertain to be the author's intent. Brea did a great job of acting. Those who love movies with heart and Brea Grant will definitely enjoy it. And the body double was fantastic too.

Never heard of the movie or actors or directors until I watched it. Honestly not as bad as how many people here say. Owens actor was terrible thought numerous times, I wasn't convinced of what was happening. The music was good but the tropes were over done. Too many drinking scenes too many alarm rings. It could have gone a funnier way with how they started. The first 30 minutes gave me a fun with Dick and Jane vibe. Maybe it'll be about their crazy adventurous trying to get rid of their mistake. Maybe it'll have hilarious scenes of them two finding ways to get the job done! But nope it tried taking a serious direction that ultimately lead it to a very confusing ending. I won't spoil the movie but imagine if Marty from Back To The Future ended up landing in a different dimension completely leaving us wondering what just happened. No build to that just a completely random ending.

The movie looks more like a made for TV film than a real motion picture.

It's poorly done. Everytihing about it is reminiscent of the 80's and do we really want to remember the 80's?

I was truly bored out of my mind. The acting is HORRIBLE.

The soundtrack is synthesized garbage that will get on your nerves.

OK Low budget but still... 100+ bodies dead but no explanation as to what they do with those bodies before the benefactor provides a dump truck.

All new madalines are created from a single incidence. The protagonists are moving through time one day at a time, supposedly the madalines returning from the future have been into the future and are returning to the protagonist timeline, each one, one day later than the previous one. It doesnt make sense that each new madeline is returning one day later. It doesnt make sense that some madalines die in the future but each new day a new madeline turns up. It doesnt make any sense that each madeline returning from the future returns one day later even though the new madalines were created 60 seconds apart.

If there are 3600 in the future and each one has to wait an extra day than the previous before returning, what are all those future madalines eating.

The Script has holes The sound is OK The Photography is ok The Acting is hammy

Its a passable watch 👍👎

Madeline (Brea Grant) and Owen (Parry Shen) are a couple working on time travel for investor Rory Devonshire (Richard Riehle). The successful small project develops a flaw in the code which generate a new version of Madeline every day. They have to take care of every new Madeline.

This indie has an interesting concept. Its microscopic budget holds it back. This wants to be funny, but the execution is not there. The directing is weak. The timing is off. It is trying so hard to punch above its weight. In the end, it is obviously unable to get there. I do like Brea Grant in her multiple versions.

Brea Grant played her part well, but Parry Shen was out of place as both husband & co-inventer. He was mostly annoying, & ruined any chance of just rolling with the plot holes & silliness of this sci-fi comedy turned slasher project. I'd like to see Grant in a better production. Shen is more suited for run-of-the-mill corny sit-coms.

RATED 7/10 Language: English

Bit amateur sci-fi drama mixed with horror actions. Its childish st some places and master class in some paces. Kind of mixed bag with some good idea. It was bit slow in the beginning but the pace is watchable after that. Liked the climax very well.

One time watchable.

Most people who saw this movie did not seem to like it. It does not have endless special effects like action sci-fi movies. Perhaps that is what they were looking for. When you see the word comedy with sci-fi you should expect that. Most comedy /horror or comedy /sci-fi movies miss the mark. This one does not. It is not laugh out loud funny. It poses some real questions if something goes wrong with time travel and then shows the would be scientists dealing with the problem in a humorous way.

I would definitely watch this movie again. I cannot understand why it has such a low rating.

I'm no film major, aside from my own film I made, but this film is interesting. Time travel and the multiverse is in this year, thanks to Rick and Morty (I think). So this film is good in my opinion, though pretty complex. Perhaps too complex for anyone, the base ideas are good, the characters are likable and flawed in ways... so if you like sci-fi and time travel you might like it.

If you need explanations for everything you might not like it... it seems to have no thread explanations. By that I mean there are a lot of people that who have written that it's poor in effects, and poor in concluding the ideas it gives... they are probably right... but I still like thinking about the movie and enjoying what it is.

In my own film I have myself in it, perhaps that's a good think and the director should be in it. Like if he's leaving things, according to other's, badly done like the effects and writing... perhaps he should be in the film to explain in some way. In my film I actually am killed by having my buttocks crushed, then I have my friend thrown down the stairs... not sure what he could do in the film to make people happy or if it's needed, but it is always fun to see the director in a movie. It sort of breaks the rules of film for some reason... as if none of the other actors/actresses in the film could have written or given direction suggestions at all... kinda of odd... it must be the way it's done usually... self aware to a degree...

Is this film self aware to some odd degree that makes people give it a low score, or like this review is it too self serving? Like he just really likes time travel ideas and well if you all don't like it... keep thinking about it perhaps you'll make a better conclusion. Not sure, it's kind of forward thinking to have my friends portrayed as such good method actor's, perhaps their fatal flaw (the creatives behind it) is that time travel isn't revealed as real and our imaginations can't ever piece together any film about time travel... hopefully you all still like Back to the Future with that notion, but whatever...

I assume you all watch movies a lot, well this one is good, I'll need to re-watch since it is pretty complex at times. But pretty cool ideas about space/time and travel... as well as how to deal with it.