Before you read on, be warned this review contains many spoilers!
When a film is promoted by the fact it only cost $7000 (or whatever) to make, it does set alarm bells ringing. Like it must be bad if they're trying to impress you with how little it cost to make. Anyone can make a film for $7000, doesn't mean it's any good though, and this sure ain't any good.
I went to see it only because of some of the positive comments on IMDb made it out to be something special.
The first 45 minutes or so are incredibly boring. The conversations between the 4 friends about science & engineering is, well, here's a sore point, I didn't have a clue what they were talking about. It went way over my head and left me bored. On top of that the sound quality was bad, the 4 characters kept talking over each other and there was a lot of mumbling so I missed a lot.
The look of the film is awful, mostly filled with either a yellow or blue tint so that everything looks either yellow, or blue.
The group of 4 splits to 2 as Aaron & Abe start to make discoveries with a machine they have invented, and stop talking to the other guys. I was lost a bit here too, but I think the machine does something like hold an object in time where it is while the rest of time continues. Anyway, I didn't really care, and by this time more than 1 person had walked out of the cinema.
The last half hour gets slightly more interesting but it's so confusing that it isn't completely enjoyable. From what I gathered, they worked out they had a time machine and they started to go back in time. Three hours at first, then up to three days. They start to play the stock market for a bit (of all the things they could do) and apparently make some money, though this never becomes evident and they never do anything with it.
Then it gets confusing. Aaron speaks about punching some guy in the nose if he could go back in time. And Abe makes a big deal out of it, and his wife is like "wow I'm really proud of you for saying that" and the audience is like 'What?' Who is this guy and why is it a big deal? Then they are told about a party where, I think, a girl named Rachel is shot (I'm presuming a lot because so much is unclear). So then they decide to go back in time by three days to stop this happening.
Why? Why oh why? Who is this Rachel? We never even met her and now the film for the next 10 minutes revolves around saving her life. Only this isn't even made exciting it's just they do it and that's it. We don't even see the rescue.
Now, there's also a scene where there is a guy (head of department or something) sitting outside Aaron's home in the middle of the night and they believe he looks like he has 3 days worth of stubble whereas he was clean shaven earlier that day. They think he is following them and found out about the time machine. So they chase after him. The next thing, Aaron and this guy are lying on the floor and this guy is either dead or asleep, but we never hear of him again. This is just an entirely pointless scene involving a possible subplot that was never developed.
This film is madness and as I write it down it sounds even more ridiculous than when I was watching it.
Then Aaron elopes (leaving his double to carry on everyday life - and who takes the place of where the double left?) Then it ends. What a stinker. Avoid this messed up confused, poor excuse for a film!
When a film is promoted by the fact it only cost $7000 (or whatever) to make, it does set alarm bells ringing. Like it must be bad if they're trying to impress you with how little it cost to make. Anyone can make a film for $7000, doesn't mean it's any good though, and this sure ain't any good.
I went to see it only because of some of the positive comments on IMDb made it out to be something special.
The first 45 minutes or so are incredibly boring. The conversations between the 4 friends about science & engineering is, well, here's a sore point, I didn't have a clue what they were talking about. It went way over my head and left me bored. On top of that the sound quality was bad, the 4 characters kept talking over each other and there was a lot of mumbling so I missed a lot.
The look of the film is awful, mostly filled with either a yellow or blue tint so that everything looks either yellow, or blue.
The group of 4 splits to 2 as Aaron & Abe start to make discoveries with a machine they have invented, and stop talking to the other guys. I was lost a bit here too, but I think the machine does something like hold an object in time where it is while the rest of time continues. Anyway, I didn't really care, and by this time more than 1 person had walked out of the cinema.
The last half hour gets slightly more interesting but it's so confusing that it isn't completely enjoyable. From what I gathered, they worked out they had a time machine and they started to go back in time. Three hours at first, then up to three days. They start to play the stock market for a bit (of all the things they could do) and apparently make some money, though this never becomes evident and they never do anything with it.
Then it gets confusing. Aaron speaks about punching some guy in the nose if he could go back in time. And Abe makes a big deal out of it, and his wife is like "wow I'm really proud of you for saying that" and the audience is like 'What?' Who is this guy and why is it a big deal? Then they are told about a party where, I think, a girl named Rachel is shot (I'm presuming a lot because so much is unclear). So then they decide to go back in time by three days to stop this happening.
Why? Why oh why? Who is this Rachel? We never even met her and now the film for the next 10 minutes revolves around saving her life. Only this isn't even made exciting it's just they do it and that's it. We don't even see the rescue.
Now, there's also a scene where there is a guy (head of department or something) sitting outside Aaron's home in the middle of the night and they believe he looks like he has 3 days worth of stubble whereas he was clean shaven earlier that day. They think he is following them and found out about the time machine. So they chase after him. The next thing, Aaron and this guy are lying on the floor and this guy is either dead or asleep, but we never hear of him again. This is just an entirely pointless scene involving a possible subplot that was never developed.
This film is madness and as I write it down it sounds even more ridiculous than when I was watching it.
Then Aaron elopes (leaving his double to carry on everyday life - and who takes the place of where the double left?) Then it ends. What a stinker. Avoid this messed up confused, poor excuse for a film!