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Feb 20, 2018aaropender rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Pretentious production. Stumbles on itself in its efforts to be intellectual and edgy. When a man finds himself within a space-time scenario from which he is able to influence the past, he sends messages into the past which the viewer watches take place over time for those characters who exist in the past. The viewer witnesses the man in the unusual space-time practicing his abilities to send messages into the past, and improve on his abilities to find those signals through which the characters in the past will accurately and fully perceive the message he is trying to convey. So we see the man outside of normal space-time experiencing time's passage in a linear fashion, sending messages to characters in the past. The linear time experienced by the man outside of normal space-time is translated to the linear time of the characters in the past. One would expect that a man outside of normal space-time would be able to find new ways of trying to get his message across to the people in the past without time necessarily transpiring for those people in the past. After all, if it doesn't work the first time, he just tries again in a way that time does not pass for his recipients in the past. From here, the entire plot loses all cohesion. Furthermore, the very presence of this man outside of normal space-time and the core of the plot structure of the movie (i.e. people traveling through space) DOES NOT TAKE PLACE unless his initial message is not fully grasped by those in the past (that message being 'don't leave', or 'stay'). So it is needed for this man outside of time to not be effective at sending messages, and for his recipients to also experience time's passage between the messages he sends. The plot needs for time to basically correlate between people within normal space-time and the man outside of normal space-time. Again, one would expect that if you had all the time in the universe to get a message to a particular pair of people at a particular point in normal linear time, you could just keep sending your messages to those people at that point in time (basically replaying their time for them until they understood what you wanted them to understand). Anyway, no plot cohesion. The performance by the lead actor is actually generally quite good.