circaninetysix

This film had great acting, great cinematography and a tantalizing plot, but as much as I wanted to enjoy it, it felt incredibly slow paced. The one location is great, and the fact it's basically only two characters the whole time was great, but every shot is drawn out, in a way that's meant to convey suspense, but it feels unnatural how slow the characters move and talk. The whole movie tries to keep you on the edge of your seat, but after an hour of literally nothing, it hits you with a last half hour that tries to finally bring that suspense to a conclusion, but the ending just doesn't feel satisfying at all and leaves you with a bitter taste in your mouth. I wanted so much more from this film, but despite the incredible framing and acting, it falls totally flat in the last ten seconds and does not live up to the expectations you have going in. Not a bad movie, just not that great either.

So this film, it looked great. Great set design, great CGI, very interesting visuals. Unfortunately, the plot sucks. In a time travel movie, you just have to set clearly defined rules and adhere to them. This movie does not do that. It nevers sets any rules, and what you do find out about how this version of time travel works, gets basically thrown out the window towards the end. I liked the idea of setting the film in the future, and then time traveling not to the past, but the further future. Great concept, but horribly executed. It's the fact it's a movie basically all about time travel, yet they screwed up the time travel. What's left? Good performances, but unrealistic characters. Lots of reusing footage too. You keep seeing the same scenes but with more revealed, yet, it doesn't make you want to see those scenes in full. You'll likely just not care. A time travel movie should probably get the time travel right, but it doesn't. Even a child could see the flaws in the plot and even though it seems to be more concerned with being a character study, I think it failed at that as well as having a bad plot. This movie isn't terrible, but it's not good.

I guess I expected more from the concept. Super predictable, kind of a lame ending. Characters are okay but the dialog is not really all that well written or realistic. This movie really didn't surprise me in any way. Its your typical sort of vigilante revenge sort of movie, but brings nothing new or interesting to the table. There was maybe one part of the plot that was unexpected and changes how you see the main character. Unfortunately, the character doesn't really grow from this experience, and the movie just sort of ends.