Repeaters don't give you anything brand new. But what it gives, is a decent moral questions: would you do something if it is absolutely sure you won't get punished? If you have morals of course you won't do it. Is freedom really about you can do whatever you want? Do you have the right to do immoral things when you are in extraordinary situation?To be fair, these questions are making this movie's rate 7. I have seen other time repeating movies, and they were more comedies. This is decently dark, more human, no laughter. But in exchange you get important moral questions to think about.For me as an atheist it is representing the question: Can an atheist be moral? And the answer is absolutely yes. If you have freedom to do whatever you want without punishment, it is YOUR choice to be jerk or normal. It is your decision if you want to live in the moral squalor you made, or make your environment better.I know this review was personal, but it is always good to have personal message from a movie.For sum it up: I might watch it once more. It is generally a good movie. It is not epic, but I think this is a recommended movie for everybody over a certain maturity level.

(That's a message to the writers.)It's not blowing anything to say this is basically an attempt at a dark version of the same concept from Ground Hog Day. That's all contained in the synopsis and the pre-release blerb.Or, if you want some serious physics: its a portrayal of the effects of Closed Timelike Curves - an Einsteinian concept.But let's face it, it's a simple, childhood daydream, and therefore an archetypal idea: what if the same day repeated ad-infinitum?I used to dismiss Ground Hog Day as a slightly better than average Hollywood comedy, though my love for Bill Murray has grown and grown over the years (The Life Aquatic is now a film I proudly own).But the more I have gone back and looked at Ground Hog Day, the more it has improved. It really is quite a good, philosophical treatment of the conundrum the protagonist faces, and the way he deals with it is believable. And it manages to be inspiring, and cunningly the writers have left the ending open: you can interpret it in some kind of religious/spiritual ooga-booga way, or you can take it that it's just the result of the protagonist's careful planning - he had time to think the whole thing right through, after all.And this brings us to the issue with Repeaters. Writing.It starts strong and involves the audience. And the 'problems' are introduced rather nicely ...Then it collapses.Not completely, but it takes a fairly bad hit and kind of limps on after:We depart on the loop train with the feeling we are bound for Thrilling Dark Cleverness. Instead, we find ourselves passing endlessly through Mediocrity, Writing Needs Work, and Lost Our Whiteboard, again and again.Several things irritated me - characters being pussies when they should have charged into the fray (and would have, if they'd had all the time in the world to map out the consequences; there are a LOT of things I would have added, or treated differently) - lack of intellectual support (plot could have been quite ingenious, but ended up not: this is a puzzle-trap after all) - and a really stupid plot-hole, introduced by the writers finally trying to be CLEVER (and instead delivering messed up, gluggy short-hand that garbles the message), that has been the subject of great debate on the IMDb forums.But, having said all that, what about enjoyment? Would I recommend you rent this?Hell yes. Take it for a spin.Or a loop.

At the time of this writing, IMDb rating for Repeaters was only 5.8.Last week, a good friend of mine recommended this movie to me, and even though we do not always agree on what is a good movie, I watched it, and I am very glad that I did. This movie explores one of the most intriguing premises: what if today was to repeat itself indefinitely, and you had the freedom to do what you want and remember everything you did and what happened, every time the day repeated itself? What would you do? This is the privilege, or the curse, that befell on three drug addicts in a rehabilitation center. It is a privilege if you can learn what you did wrong and use that knowledge to improve the events of this day. But it can be a curse if you see it as a damn trap out of which there is no escape. The story unravels at a nice steady pace, and things are quickly evolving toward some pretty dramatic situations. The performance of the actors was decent enough, and the director should get recognized for putting together a very logical sequence of events despite the complexity of the story. I am pointing this out because I noticed how often some movies add confusion just for the sake of being creative. Although I generally appreciate the effort, sometimes it's just better to keep things simple so as to get the story across effectively and memorably. And this is particularly important when the story includes many very interesting ideas such as the duration of the time loop, what if it's infinite, what happens if it ends, how will you know, death and time, does what you do have any effect on the "real" time line, and, come to think of it, which one is the "real" time line. Then, when you have all the details of such a story straight and clear in your mind, it's so much easier to mull over them later, as I did, and still do.

I was so surprised at how good this movie was. After seeing the trailer, and recognizing that it isn't a popular film and also has a lower rating on IMDb, I wasn't expecting anything great. However, after sitting down to watch the movie (because I was interested in the idea of the plot), I was hooked from the start! It jumps right into the story and is very, very fast paced. If you like a movie with drama, tons of suspense and a hint of science-fiction, this one is definitely for you. The acting wasn't the best I've seen in a movie, but it wasn't horrible by any means either. The movie is presented with very dark colour, which definitely added to the atmosphere of the film.Overall, 7/10. Idea? Great. Film? Great. Acting? So-so. Ending? Not sure how to feel yet. You just need to watch it to find out.