Time Lapse (Film): Review.

in #film6 years ago

I do not remember who recommended this movie, because for some reason I did not write it down, however, I decided to see it still, if someone had recommended it to me then I had to see it, and I did, and so... how was it? well, I will say that because there were no expectations, the film seemed acceptable to me, as well as entertaining.


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Year: 2014
Category: Indie, Sci-fi.
Director: Bradley D. King.
Cast: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O'Leary, George Finn, Amin Joseph, Jason Spisak, David Figlioli, Sharon Maughan, Judith Drake, John Rhys-Davies.


Plot

The film tells the story of a group of friends who discover a machine that can take pictures of things 24 hours into the future, causing increasingly complex causal loops.


Opinion

Finn, a frustrated young painter, lives with his girlfriend Callie, and his friend Jasper, a gambling fan, in an apartment complex where he works as a manager, when Big Joe, the ecurity guard, informs him that Mr. Bezzerides has not paid the rent in a month, Callie decides to go into his apartment to see if something has happened to him, in doing she discovers something very curious, so it is later accompanied by Finn and Jasper.

In the apartment of Mr. Bezzerides they find a strange machine that takes polaroid photos, along with many of them hanging on the wall, and later, after a rather dubious group analysis, they come to the conclusion that the machine takes pictures that shows 24 hours in the future the place where it is focused, which in this case is through the window of Finn's apartment.

Shortly after, Finn, Callie and Jasper discover that Mr. Bezzerides has died and his body is in decomposition, something that does not worry too much the protagonists now seduced by the magic of the machine they have found and that motivates them to use it to win in bets.

With the help of the machine Finn will find inspiration for his paintings, Callie will improve his relationship with Finn, and Jasper wins in the bets, so everything starts to go very well, however, the side effects will not be long in coming, in a certain way the death of Mr. Bezzerides supposes that he behaved in a different way to that dictated by the photos, which means that now they become prisoners of the photos, which will have very bad results.

The film is very low budget, practically the scenario in which the plot unfolds is small, I guess that having a single stage was a fundamental reason for the director decided to make the camera had a considerable size and that was fastened to the ground, so that everything revolves around it and thus justify the fact that everything is developed in one place.

The performances are not bad, but you can see that they are amateur, the same with the direction of Bradley King, however, both the actors and the director manage to make the work maintain an acceptable level and in a certain way they also manage to generate a sensation of intrigue in the viewer, without mentioning the final twist which despite being little credible takes anyone by surprise.


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Score

6/10

In short, it is a film that can be seen quietly, but I recommend it especially to those who like movies about time travel, for others, you can abstain if you wish. If you live in France or Canada you can find it available in the Netflix catalog at the date of publication of this review.


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