Excursion

On the one hand, Excursion is highly original, but on the other, the acting and scripting of this film are mediocre. It's shot in an apartment in Shad Thames, and it has the unfortunate feel of a local drama group deciding to act out a novel script in someone's flat and basement. (Watch Hoshii Mamoru 'University of Laughs', if you want to see a master class in how a single setting film can work brilliantly, by the way). The acting settles down a bit half way through, but the former is needlessly snail paced even for the context. Some fans laud the interesting twist on time-travel and this is indeed a refreshing take that suitably steers clear of cheap and needless special effects. However, trying to follow the threads of the timeline and paradoxes will drive you 'loopy' and despite feeding into a clever catastrophic twist, it struggles to really make any clear sense of the tangled ball of time and events, unless as one of the protagonists says, that you pull on a thread and some of the knots sort themselves out. For me though, pulling on the threads just seems to tighten the knots of confusion.

Sometimes it was super hard to hear the actors.

And the acting wasn't the best. It felt like they overexplained some small parts to make it more realistic, but it went the other way instead.

I'm sure that most people are aware of the grandfather paradox (especially the kind of people who watch this movie) and don't need the complicated examples, even though I liked this representation.

Otherwise, it was pretty interesting and I still have to digest two small parts of it, though I don't think it would be worth a rewatch.

Interesting idea but not really worth the time.

I'm guessing low budget.

I just didn't care that much.

I read the storyline. Sounds interesting and original, I thought to myself.

I was wrong.

Do something else with your time, anything but watch this. I don't understand the 8 and 9 star reviews. It's definitely not a 9, not even an 8. An 8 would make it comparable, as I write, with current IMDB ratings of Donnie Darko, Rocky, The Wizard of Oz, Jaws and the Exorcist.

Nope, it's definitely not an 8. Nowhere near.

Interesting concept. More of a play than a movie really, with five actors and two locations. Poor writing, with incomprehensible actions by poorly-acted characters, and often inaudible dialogue.

The kindest thing I can say about this movie is that the key theme is how time travel produces paradoxes, and the whole plot is a barely comprehensible mess, so in a way, it illustrates the point.