Needle in a Timestack

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Michelle This movie featured a wonderful message of love and touched on themes of unconditional friendship, and near-future science fiction. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/18/21 Full Review S J A meaningful and brilliantly acted, creative and modern love story. I still think about it after 4 years. Not many movies stay in your consciousness like this. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/05/25 Full Review D P Oof! So sorry to see this has a low score here. I loved this film. I was thoroughly invested in the mythology and the outcome of this story. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/25 Full Review Heath G It's not as bad as the critics bang on, but it's not something you need to see twice either. The cast was good and it was reasonably well shot - particularly the clever way the futuristic component was treated without the need for elaborate effects. However, it has one those endings that is utterly unsatisfying. The writing left a bit to be desired, loads of cliches. Not to mention the holes in the whole time travel plot. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review gary k It was watchable, but beyond that a very flawed movie. It's probably the slowest film I've ever watched, it just never got going. Time travel always has its problems but a sci-fi film should at least try to mitigate the worst contradictions - this film didn't bother. The idea that anyone with enough money would be allowed to pop down the local time-travel centre and go back to any place, any time, unsupervised and change the past and therefore the present, is frankly ridiculous. "It's illegal to change the past", yeah, but since the film also makes a big thing about forgetting your memories a few seconds after a time change, who is going to know something illegal has been done, how and who did it? It would simply not be allowed. On top of that I agree with the critic's review about it being about men owning women. Whilst the two men fight like rutting boars over prize no.1 and dumping the loser with wooden-spoon girl (despite her coming over as a better catch), prize no.1 - Janine - comes across as a bit dim, dismissing the idea that someone who has tried to change time already won't do it again and wipe out her happy life, whilst confessing feelings for her ex to her terrified (and insecure) partner. A dark ending could've made the film something special, I half expected it when Nick was sat in the diner with his sister having lost everything, that would have been thought provoking, but of course we had to have the fairytale ending and I'm starting to wonder whether 2 stars is too generous. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review peggy r Slow. Pedantic Time trave I love but went for slick and artsy but no tension The story needs tension. The cast is too good for this. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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