At the start, this movie seems far better than its obviously limited budget. There is a mystery, a puzzle. And our lead begins working it out. Invariably he "solves" it, only to discover that there is far more under the surface. Who made the puzzle, what will solving it do or rather unleash?
And then they switch pretty much entirely into dialogue. Exposition. Talk. Talk. Blah. Blah. What if there's time travel? What if there are aliens? What if there are evil time travelling aliens? Blah blah blah.
Let me put it this way. What if they remade Terminator but didn't have any scenes with the robot? What if you just had a couple of people talk for an hour about how there "might" be a terminator, a Skynet, doomsday. But the movie ends with you never seeing any of it. Just characters sitting in a room talking.
There are authors that can pull that kind of a thing off. Asimov in Nightfall for example. But it's rare. Extremely rare.
This movie is not that rare exception. It goes nowhere and does nothing. Points for at least considering a higher concept. But the authors are no Asimov. And this movie ends up being too long and muddled.
And then they switch pretty much entirely into dialogue. Exposition. Talk. Talk. Blah. Blah. What if there's time travel? What if there are aliens? What if there are evil time travelling aliens? Blah blah blah.
Let me put it this way. What if they remade Terminator but didn't have any scenes with the robot? What if you just had a couple of people talk for an hour about how there "might" be a terminator, a Skynet, doomsday. But the movie ends with you never seeing any of it. Just characters sitting in a room talking.
There are authors that can pull that kind of a thing off. Asimov in Nightfall for example. But it's rare. Extremely rare.
This movie is not that rare exception. It goes nowhere and does nothing. Points for at least considering a higher concept. But the authors are no Asimov. And this movie ends up being too long and muddled.