While I enjoy the main concept of the film, which is the ability to play with time, the potential of that ability is wasted on mostly silly, meaningless ventures that don't give the viewer much satisfaction unless perhaps you're a teenage girl who can relate to the main character and her motives.
I am a pretty emotional guy, but I could not connect at all with the characters and thought that the relationships on screen had weak foundations and not much development to them. It's almost like the director was trying to assert that love existed on what is a mostly a blank canvas, so the viewer has to use a lot of imagination to conjure up a love story that I feel doesn't truly exist.
If it does exist, it's buried in plot holes and a tangled story line that doesn't build tension effectively. It doesn't feel like there was ever much on the line, partly because of how death was brushed off so easily from the start of the film to the bitter end, but mostly because the characters act and react so vacantly to whatever craziness is presented to them. It doesn't help that there is hardly any character history presented, with this just being a look into a slice of just a few days in time.
I wanted to enjoy the movie, but found myself constantly unattached and underwhelmed by the main thrust of the film. I feel there was so much more potential for the main character to truly learn valuable lessons, and for story arcs to be more deeply refined but the importance of detail was overlooked in favor of a convoluted plot which ends in what I can only describe as a train wreck of anticlimactic hell.
I am a pretty emotional guy, but I could not connect at all with the characters and thought that the relationships on screen had weak foundations and not much development to them. It's almost like the director was trying to assert that love existed on what is a mostly a blank canvas, so the viewer has to use a lot of imagination to conjure up a love story that I feel doesn't truly exist.
If it does exist, it's buried in plot holes and a tangled story line that doesn't build tension effectively. It doesn't feel like there was ever much on the line, partly because of how death was brushed off so easily from the start of the film to the bitter end, but mostly because the characters act and react so vacantly to whatever craziness is presented to them. It doesn't help that there is hardly any character history presented, with this just being a look into a slice of just a few days in time.
I wanted to enjoy the movie, but found myself constantly unattached and underwhelmed by the main thrust of the film. I feel there was so much more potential for the main character to truly learn valuable lessons, and for story arcs to be more deeply refined but the importance of detail was overlooked in favor of a convoluted plot which ends in what I can only describe as a train wreck of anticlimactic hell.