With the financial aide of capitalist Klaus Meisner (Michael Ironside) Jim Beale (Chad McKnight) manages to create a wormhole. A rare flower comes through from the other side which sets off a chain of events dealing with the paradox of time travel...or is it a parallel universe?The film is built upon an idea that an infinite number of universes exist which includes all different possibilities. What happens is that we have to sit through that oh so clever watching the same scene again from a different viewpoint with words taking on a different meaning. Unfortunately it was long and drawn out and not exciting the first time through. The leading lady is Brianne Davis who is made up to look like J-Law.This is low intensity science fiction and should appeal to fans of "Primer." Personally I would have loved to have seen an adaptation of "What Mad Universe" instead...that is if you insist on going down that route. For low budget science fiction I prefer "Listening" or "Time Lapse."Guide: F-bomb. Brief sex. No nudity. For hardcore Science Fiction fans.
... View MoreI tried, I really did. I got three quarters of the way through this thing and finally gave up. I couldn't figure out what was going on, and then decided that I really didn't care. It would have helped had they explained how their machine worked in simpler terms. Instead, they did something with a flower which I never understood. Then there were the strange noises and headaches the main character was having. Again, no clue? It had potential, but it failed to live up to it. Avoid this one.
... View MoreA time travel story is judged by how well it lives within its own created paradox. If you want to see that done well, choose "Predestination" over "Synchronisity".There are two ways a story can deal with the paradox: one is to allow it to exist and the other is to threaten destruction, of the subject, of the universe, or both. This movie sadly chose the latter course and that is very hard to get out of. If you travel back in time, say five days, you will have a five day long paradox. But that paradox both begins and ends when your primary self takes the trip back; a temporal loop has been formed where only for that five day period do you find yourself and your secondary self sharing the world. At the moment the primary makes the jump, at that instant the secondary becomes the one and only in the present, and the paradox ends. Almost a Hegelian Dialectic in its elegance.The clever writer can create loop over loop over loop with still a satisfying explanation and ending. Then there is the writer who paints himself into that corner of destruction and must find a way out. Some Deus ex Machina. I cannot detail how the god appears to rescue the character/universe from destruction in "Synchronisity" without spoiling the end. I do hate spoilers, but I walked away thinking I had my choice of endings. My advice to you is to first watch "Predestination" and then go to this movie. Oh, and some likable characters might have helped just a bit. I might have given a 3 out of 10.
... View MoreAs you can read in the title... The movie starts as a bad SF movie, weird scene with various scientific vocabulary that the viewer doesn't understand (in purpose I imagine), the movie starts with an invention discovery : time travel, and the scenes going and ongoing, every single scene becomes more clear to the viewer. Some scenes would just, at first, seem bad-played by the actors, but at the end gain logic and the role-plays take every of their logic. The movie is about time travel, parallel universes, and the whole plot is mind-blowing. What I thought first being an easy-to-watch movie, finally became a really deep-movie with an incredible plot. If you liked Inception, you'll probably like this one as well. Get ready to have your mind blown... This is definitely worth its 1 hour and 40 minutes.
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