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3500 Madelines....kill em all !? What a ridiculous concept . Man o man...I guess people are just running out of ideas. Who comes up with this s*hit ? Just put them all in the closet. No one will notice the stentch. Avoid at all cost.

Despite having no budget, this film delivers a good story.

At first it seems pretty clunky but after a bit I was fully engaged and no longer cared about the lack of budget.

One caveat (spoiler): At no point was it mentioned or realized they've effectively made a matter copying device and could have created immense wealth just from the diamond ring alone.

If you like dark comedies, gore, science fiction and yearn for a Land of the Lost full of knife wielding women, check it out! So much fun! It's kinda amazing what you can do with a tiny cast and twisted imagination.

This was a bit weird I must say. You have a couple inventing a time machine in their garage where no one of these persons seems rather intelligent/intellectual/thoughtful or methodical in any form, which you expect from an inventor/scientist right?

Then they have a discussion about testing on organic life or not. The woman clearly say she does not want to while the man insists. Because she is upset with the man she tries the time machine on her self! There is some wrong logic here...

They quickly realize there is something wrong and it takes like one second for the female to find out why looking at the computer screen. They show a simple programmatic loop, which like every dummy programmer can write. So the person who invented a time machine cannot write a simple code loop?

I know every human can make mistakes and she was drunk while she was setting up the test, but come on. If I was to go in the future I would have thought at least something like that through.

Then the problem starts when copies of the woman starting appear in the garden. They end up deciding after a very short discussion that they must kill the copies. The woman having trouble killing herself so the task lands on the man. This part is kinda disturbing to me when they actually makes fun of killing the copies. Maybe this is suppose to be the horror part of the movie... When I watch this part of the movie I thought to myself: would not some neighbor react to like 50 people killed in the garden every day at the same time? I mean their house was not that isolated and you could clearly see the garden from above.

Also they show that the man get rid of the bodies using some acid in the bathtub, but later when they have an argue about the killing he claims the police are gonna put them in jail for all the killing and at the same time he shows that the bodies are stored in a room in the house! You would not be able to live in that house if you have 50 dead bodies in a room. Can you imagine the smell that would cause?

There is also a third person involved in this movie, the financer. He comes around from time to time and states he wants some results, always in a awkward manner. Later on they explains the situation for him and he kinda drops out of the story.

The ending is fine and what you can expect from a time machine movie.

Overall the acting/directing is ok, but in some scenes the special effects are pretty bad. But the conversations between the woman copies are pretty well done.

I was gonna give this a 4 but since it is a comedy I rated it higher to a 5.

This film start with a couple doing experiment at their garage, and they running out from the garage scene! As turnout, this film is about a husband "Owen" need to travel back to the past to fix the time travel mistake make by his wife "Madeline"! Entire film full of boring conversation, and annoying overuse scene! Such as, overuse of the arguing scene, overuse of the staring scene, overuse of the calling names scene, overuse of the blackout scene, overuse of the drinking scene, overuse of the experiment scene, overuse of the alarm clock ringing scene, overuse of the cleaning dead body scene, overuse of the stabbing scene, overuse of the walking scene, overuse of the searching scene, and overuse of the time transporting scene! Make the film unwatchable! At the end, Owen fail to travel back to the past, and he end up following by myriad of Madelines to kill him! That's it! Wasting time to watch!

This movie gets pretty poor reviews, and a lot of that seems to be connected with the broad sentiment among reviewers that the ending doesn't make sense. I'll grant that it's complicated, and I had to rewatch the last 15 minutes a time or two to work it out in my head, but I think I finally understand it well enough to explain it. It *does* make sense for the most part. It's just quite convoluted.

**SPOILERS** Most people's confusion (understandably) begins about the time that Madeline 51 rescues Owen and the two agree on the plan to send Owen back to the past to stop Original Madeline before she ever starts the time loop. From there, Owen is shocked to find himself instead sent to the bleak, desert "future zone" the Madelines kept spawning to and got stuck in until they finally made their round trips to the present. He walks into their camper to find Madeline 115 (the mean/villain one) waiting for him with a knife, saying she'd been warned he was killing her and the other time-clones, so she wants to kill him first. She stabs Owen, but not before receiving the facial scar that we first met her with when she appeared in the present. Then Owen *himself* respawns in an injured state right outside the camper. He sees to his horror an entire army of Madelines marching toward him in the desert to presumably kill him. Then, we get a slip-away to a "BEFORE" scene where a Madeline clone seems to stop Original Madeline from ever creating the loop, ending with an arial shot and a gasp right before the credits.

"What-the-huh?!", right? I had a lot of questions initially. How did Madeline 115 "leave herself a note" when she presumably only made the one round trip through time? Why did she want to kill Owen, anyway? Why did the time machine misfire like that, and who was behind the "override" briefly mentioned onscreen? Who was the Madeline that showed up in the "before" scene at the end? Well... here's what I believe is going on that (mostly) explains the ending.

Right as Madeline 51 is pressing the button to send Owen to the past as intended, the screen on the computer turns red and the words "Madeline Override Sequence" appear on the screen. Earlier, in the present-day after multiple Madelines started arriving and took Owen prisoner and took over the house, we saw that Madeline 115 (the villain) was spending a lot of time alone in the lab or in the camper with the time machine by herself. Specifically, she was messing around with some of the code in the USB drive. I believe she knew herself (or rather, the other versions of her) well enough to think there was a reasonable chance that one of them would do exactly what they did -- rescue Owen and try to use the time machine to alter the past and end the loop.

As a failsafe for that contingency, Madeline 115 did two things. First, she traveled to the "future zone" herself in secret in the dead of night and briefly left a message before making a return trip to the present, writing on the camper's counter that "He's killing us" to rile up the slightly-past version of 115 and to convince her and the other Madelines to punish Owen's interference (if he ever came there) with death. Second, she reprogrammed the time machine itself with an override sequence so that if Owen ever *did* attempt to correct the past, he'd be sent to the future zone instead, where past-future-her and the other Madelines would deal with him. In a bit of poetic revenge, she apparently created some sort of respawn sequence so the Madelines still there could even kill him over and over, as he did her.

The scene with the army of Madelines was impressive, but I suspect the director or writer might have thought it was too bleak an ending. Therefore we got Madeline 51 -- who you as the viewer are supposed to know because she's the only one with a twin-bun hairstyle and who was shown wearing that particular scarf earlier in the film -- saving the day by travelling to the past herself and stopping Original Madeline from ever pressing the button. We know she's clearly smart enough to fix the code, and she was right there with the machine and (by that point in the movie) seemed sincere about wanting to help Owen end the miserable cycle of clonings and killings. Ergo, we get a happy... ending?

Look, I'm not going to completely justify the convoluted ending, because it still does contain some logical holes no matter how you look at it. There's no explanation for how or why Owen would respawn outside of the camper after being stabbed without benefit of the time machine -- none of the many Madeline clones did that after their demises. If original-him, armed with a knife, had been the one to respawn like that, that would have been a different story but also wouldn't have made much sense as a good evil plan for Madeline 115. The "good ending" with Madeline 51 also felt very tacked-on, and the gasp right before the credits doesn't seem to serve *any* purpose that would make in-world sense. (Unless, perhaps, it's Madeline 51 poofing into nonexistence after altering the timeline. I'm thinking more likely it was just a lame throwback jump-scare sound effect to recall the Madelines' first sound upon respawning earlier in the film.) It was also never exactly clear what Madeline 115 thought she was going to do with an army of herself, and the presence of the camper in the future zone was a permanent puzzle.

All told, there are much better ways this film could have ended. I think there was a real missed opportunity for a darkly funny and trippy "Multiplicity" ending with several good Madelines saving the day and deciding to share their life and lover, compromising between their identity as a collective "person" and as individuals (my preference), or they could have focused on a sweet "message" ending with Owen and Original Madeline having some sort of emotional thing to work through on dreams and what sacrifices are and aren't worth it (also acceptable). Instead, we got an EXTREMELY plot-heavy, mystery-style ending that played out like an Agatha Christie novel but with the loose ends much less neatly cinched-together.

But... yeah. The "true" ending was that Owen went through a harrowing time and possible murder in the future zone thanks to Madeline 115's masterful snare, but that Madeline 51 fixed the past on her own and saved the day.

And as a micro-review for the movie itself, I feel it's much better than its low IMDB score makes it look. I found it trippy, exciting, occasionally very funny, with special effects that weren't amazing but also were adequate and not-half-bad for this film's likely budget. The lighting and some of the cinematography were great, and I enjoyed the music, though it as a smidge too loud in some scenes. I also thought all three of the tiny cast of regulars did great jobs, and I actually kind of liked the ending (or at least appreciated it as an adequate wrap-up) once I finally understood it. The film just made things way too hard on themselves and their viewers by not shooting for an ending that was emotionally or thematically satisfying rather than trying to be too clever by half with an overly twisty finale. Worth watching at least once!