95ers: Time Runners
95ers: Time Runners
| 14 February 2013 (USA)
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Time is unraveling, paradoxes are everywhere, and strangers with terrifying technologies are on the hunt. A thrilling, original, ultra indie full-length sci-fi movie that is the story of Sally Biggs, an FBI agent who has the power to rewind time. Her scientist husband has disappeared mysteriously, and the closer she gets to finding him, the more dangerous her life becomes. To save the future and her loved ones, Sally must enter a battlefield she never knew existed. Fortunately, she's a 95er. Surrounded by bizarre timespace paradoxes and hunted by terrifying forces from the future, Sally must discover the earth-shattering truth behind it all before her very being fades out of reality.

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Lumos

Sally Biggs has the mysterious power of "rewinding" up to nine seconds of her life. She marries a guy who creates a mysterious time machine, and now, ten(?) years later, after her husband's mysterious death, mysterious forces are at work to destroy her life.Why is it all so mysterious, you may ask? Well, because nothing gets explained properly. Can Sally rewind a "rewound" time segment? Who are the baddies and what are their goals? A lot of other questions? Who knows. There's also something about some motorway in the US, though this film is apparently called "Time Runners", at least on the UK Amazon.We cut back and forth between Sally's issues, and a pair of guys in the future who are attempting to "lock on" to her timeline, so as to send someone to her before "the bogeys" do it. Alas, we have no real idea of what's going on in the future, as the only development there comes in the third act (when the "sending" of a guy over actually happens for a total of two minutes or so), and features a predictable, yet still slightly entertaining twist. Oh, and also some fighter vehicles shooting at the base of the good guys with CGI that would make the SyFy channel blush in embarrassment. Again, we get no explanations as to the nature of "the enemy", why the world is permanently on fire now, and so on.We do get some pseudoscientific technobabble that vaguely explains how time travel works, and I was amused enough to consider this of moderate interest; unfortunately, we get no proper explanation of the rules of time travel, and things remain odd throughout.In the present day, Sally is pregnant and has apparently separated from her husband before his death, due to his slowly-increasing pride and egotism. Her time-rewinding skills come in handy for her job at the FBI, where she helps her colleagues hack into some guy's dedicated Counter-Strike server (the film, unashamed of its sins, gives us gratuitous shots of the monitor during this "hacking" scene). Then her new boss figures her powers out, and begins hampering her on-the-side investigations into the paranormal.Apparently, if you have a number of positions on a map, and they sort of look like being spaced on concentric circles (that you've actually outlined on said map) according to "a blast pattern", you need a top-secret classified FBI program to tell you where the origin of this "explosion" was. I'm a simple engineer; I'd've thought some simple geometry may've been useful.Nothing proceeds to happen for the most part of the film, and we are left to revel in the stilted acting, the "A Christmas Carol" play some uninteresting supporting characters are rehearsing for at her house, and the oddly-lit scenes. Every shot of this film screams "shot on a digital camera" -- not that that's necessarily a bad thing.Credit where credit is due, there are a couple of clever "rewinding 'till you get the desired outcome" scenes in this film, and they were neat. The rest of the editing, however, is full of cuts. Hard cuts not between scenes, but within the same scene. Unfortunately, whilst the resulting effect sometimes ends up interesting, most of the time it feels like someone's been cutting up the footage by accident.At the end of the film. Sally is taken by her boss to the time machine, so that she may return to the "tipping point", the moment when she decided to marry her scientist husband, and undo it. She does so; but fortunately manages to return to her timeline, read her late husband's diaries, and manage to fix reality and somehow permanently damage "the enemy"'s positions before fading out of existence (that she doesn't end up doing, considering she wins). The ending features an obvious sequel set-up. Honestly, I'd probably watch the sequel. If I'm really bored and have nothing to do.Also, the description on Amazon Prime, as well as the poster they had there, made it sound like this'd be a lot more interesting than it actually was. **TL;DR:** Almost nothing happens for the whole film. Wooden acting. Looks like a soap opera. Some good bits. Not terrible, but far from good. Setting up for a sequel.

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jaughenbaugh

I liked this movie, and knew I'd leave a review before I read the others in this set. However, after reading them I realized how many people are sci-fi snobs and somehow believe that SFX should be the yard stick that a show is judged by. I liked the plot and the execution. I thought that the characters came through and it had some good surprises along the way. I know this is low budget but I liked the way it makes the story look like some of my other science fiction favorites.So if you think that the story, and the science, of this genre should be backseat to special effects then you are a snob. Please seek treatment.

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The-Ambassador

So let's get one thing clear and set the record straight right from the get-go: all the reviews here on IMDb that are 9s or 10s are clearly not real, but rather faked reviews by people who worked on this low budget flick or are friends or family -- for this is surely NOT a 9 or a 10, Hell, it's not even a 6 7 or 8. I LOVED the idea of the plot/storyline; time travel is my thing. So seeing that it was free due to Prime, I figured "why not? It's Sunday morning and I'm not even awake yet." Within a minute or two I heard what could possibly be the worst, and most unprofessional and amateurish dialog by a male actor being delivered that I've ever heard in my life -- seriously. And I work IN the entertainment business (obviously), so I've seen and heard it all. But this was just AWFUL. BUT I hung on simply due to the fact that I was intrigued by the alleged storyline. Honestly glad I did. Though this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen -- in terms of the art craft and science of movie-making -- clearly a very low budget indie film made by amateurs, it also has had me thinking about it and it's ramifications non-stop since I watched it. It IS a good story. Interesting, well thought out, intriguing. It's just not a "professional" movie. That's all. If you can accept that from the start, AND you dig sci-fi and/or time travel movies, then you just may enjoy this indie movie. Everyone has to start somewhere... And this is where this crew happened to start. Frankly, for the alleged $750k budget they had to work with, one could almost applaud their effort. So 5 out of 10 is a fair assessment.

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Tangle001

I admit I needed to restart it several times to be able to get a sense of the storyline, but I don't think that's because the story is lacking anything. Upon reflection, I would say there is quite a bit more thematic material to this story and more drama potential than the rest of the movies you would want to compare it to. I'm resisting comparing it to another movie because 95ers: Time Runners is sufficiently different in terms of story that I think comparison to another movie isn't what I want to do, This is science fiction but the movie tells the story of seemingly regular folks trying to deal with extremely potent and unusual occurrences. I like movies that give me something to think about in terms of intellectual topics, you know, cutting edge science, psychology, sociology, movie making, so I am well pleased with 95ers:, And further, the lead actor Alesandra Durham did a fantastic job and so I liked watching this movie very much because of her, and the storyline, and the special effects for the story are great.

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