Reviews

I checked some 10 star reviews. "oh the xxxxx is so amazing! best movie ever!" "it's so deep! so much meaning! wow!"

i feel the need to counter this :) what is the actual plot like? (spoiler free) 1) a cliché relationship drama on one level, nothing special to see here. could have been a soap opera episode. sure, it's a different style, the setting is unusual, but only on a superficial or "artsy" level. the exact setup adds nothing to the plot. the little details (the main characters sleeping habits for example) don't lead anywhere. many elements could be removed and nothing would change. 2) on the second level, a crime takes place and someone takes revenge. there is no depth to the characters with a single exception. the scenario doesn't make sense, nobody would act like the characters did here. they simply cannot exist in the real world as they are portrayed in the movie. there is nothing interesting, no twist, no surprise. everything is exactly what it seemed to be. none of them has a backstory (except one). they all just exist and follow the script so that the plot can happen.

I can't really understand the good reviews. without spoiling anything specific, since i have only seen three episodes, i can safely say that it's not possible to make sense of the characters actions or the scenario as a whole. * there is a mysterious director somewhere in the future who can send people back in time. those inhabit people who would have otherwise died. * he then sends back orders and assignes missions to his teams to eventually prevent some apocalypse scenario

as a sci fi fan, you should see the problems from a mile away. even sending a single person back can cause huge changes. if the director wants to send back a second person, the entire history between the present and the directors action has to play out again(!!) before he can send back the second guy. and we learn in episode one that thousands have been sent back. it's next to impossible that the director still exists in the final timeline.

but that's just the theory. let's give the show a chance and say he's in some magic time bubble and is not affected by any change that is made, but still is aware of everything that happens. in that case - nothing should ever go wrong. why? because if something goes slightly wrong during a mission, this info could be send back before the mission even starts, erasing the timeline where the mission fails.

but, somehow, magically, that doesn't happen. the director only gets a single try at giving his orders, and he can only add new orders later on, as if his time and the present advanced at the same rate in parallel.

then there's the fact that nobody knows why they are doing what they are doing. they have been sent back with next to zero preparation. the FBI guy doesn't know his password and i'm pretty sure hasn't received the necessary training to keep working in his position. he can't even log in into his computer because he doesn't know his password. one of the women has a baby and doesn't know how to take care of it.

A good horror movie has to have two things 1. it must convince me that i do not know what is going to happen next. 2. it must convince me that there are rules to everything that is happening. the world that it takes place in must make sense.

this one fails at both. basically, it's just a few scary things happening one after another, but there is no depth to it. they just happen. imagine an action movie where villains appear out of nowhere at random, die without us knowing who they were and then they get replaced by the next one. this is how i experienced the movie.

Imagine someone would be forced to watch every single bad teen/slasher/horrow movie, again and again. now imagine you let that poor soul create a movie where he gets the chance to mock everything he was forced to endure. would you like to watch the result? in this case, this movie is for you. you will love it. this is an excellent parody. imagine cabin in the woods, a different kind of jokes, less gore and a time loop.