Whilst mourning the death of her husband Wells, engineer Helen Phillips (Lyndsey Fonseca) discusses the future of his company with Wells business partner Tomas (Glen Morshower) and gives her blessing for him to carry on with her late husband's research. Shortly after speaking to Tomas, Helen blacks out for 7 days and gets a warning from herself that someone is arriving to kill her. Slowly but surely Helen starts to unravel what has been going on and discovers that she has sent herself back to prevent a murder...
We've seen variations of this sort of time travelling concept time and time again, but when done right this sort of unoriginality can still provide some entertainment and in this respect Curvature sort of succeeds...
Curvature has a sense of urgency and despite being relatively inexperienced director Diego Hallivas does a commendable job; the film has some pretty decent chase sequences as well as a few tense stand-offs. Granted there's nothing that will have you on the edge of your seat and it's fair to say that not a lot here is particularly memorable, but for what it is it is fairly good.
In the lead role, Fonseca puts in a good turn (particularly when she's conveying fear - her eyes dart all over the place). Everyone else is so-so, but don't be fooled by Linda Hamilton's top billing - she's only in about 2 scenes lasting a couple of minutes each and contributes little to the film.
Overall the Curvature isn't a bad film, but it's a little too derivative and also doesn't have any really big Wow moments to set it apart from the rest of the field. That being said, it's fairly well-paced meaning that if you do watch it you're not likely to be bored for its 90 minute duration.
SIDE NOTE; I found it impressive how Tomas and his mate managed to get their BMW back on the road so quickly when the tyre had been shot out? Considering it will have likely had run-flat tyres where did they get their replacement tyre from when they were in the middle of nowhere?
We've seen variations of this sort of time travelling concept time and time again, but when done right this sort of unoriginality can still provide some entertainment and in this respect Curvature sort of succeeds...
Curvature has a sense of urgency and despite being relatively inexperienced director Diego Hallivas does a commendable job; the film has some pretty decent chase sequences as well as a few tense stand-offs. Granted there's nothing that will have you on the edge of your seat and it's fair to say that not a lot here is particularly memorable, but for what it is it is fairly good.
In the lead role, Fonseca puts in a good turn (particularly when she's conveying fear - her eyes dart all over the place). Everyone else is so-so, but don't be fooled by Linda Hamilton's top billing - she's only in about 2 scenes lasting a couple of minutes each and contributes little to the film.
Overall the Curvature isn't a bad film, but it's a little too derivative and also doesn't have any really big Wow moments to set it apart from the rest of the field. That being said, it's fairly well-paced meaning that if you do watch it you're not likely to be bored for its 90 minute duration.
SIDE NOTE; I found it impressive how Tomas and his mate managed to get their BMW back on the road so quickly when the tyre had been shot out? Considering it will have likely had run-flat tyres where did they get their replacement tyre from when they were in the middle of nowhere?