Richie Mehta (director)
E One (studio)
15 (certificate)
93 minutes (length)
09 March 2015 (released)
28 March 2015
When Gabe disappears from his lab in Princeton, his wife and son are unable to return to normal. Stuck in misery and unable to move on, Erol has to find an answer for his mother sanity. After 10 years he wants to forget but she cant and in her situation may do anything. When his grandfather gives him a chance at solving the puzzle, he jumps at the chance. Little do they know that the puzzle will reveal Gabe was searching for answers to wormholes and time travel.
Ok, this film is a flawed and very average sci fi thriller. Like the B movie classics that this film stems from and nods too, it has some note worthy elements. A good cast is the first piece. All are under used and some are just left to the side. Anderson for instance sleeps through the film and can be seen to literally switch off. Sewell is a bit part and sits around the screen edge waiting for payment. This is usual B movie fair. Osmond however, is very good and it begs the question why he hasn't come back to the mainstream. I fear that it is the hostility of Hollywood to show 'real' shaped people.
Next is the story which actually lilts along. It flows like a range of similar waves. Never going over or under too far and living as many mediocre films do, on the safe and simple. What it has a little above these mediocre films is that the story does have a compelling element that handled better would have made quite a movie. Sadly it fails as the drive is lost after 25 minutes, when you feel the audience literally not care. It is sad as I have seen Mehta make two films that actually had something. Then again they were both like this in execution.
Finally is the constructs of the piece. The cinema of the whole thing, if you like. Well the film feels like a highly produced television piece. It is over lit, then dark and under exposed and then shallow and dreamlike. This final stylistic device brings something but as the others have blinded you, it is unlikely you will care. I can only say dont buy the DVD, it will appear on the Sy Fy or Horror channels and then you can watch an evening disappear like the lead and wonder, for all this science they still cant create a time machine so I can watch something, hate it and then get my time back.