Rewind (2013)

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

You know how music has these boy-bands/girl-bands where there's a group of people so everybody has one to love. This movie follows the same commercial lame recipe.It's basically a copy of NCIS, or NCI, or NCIS-LosAngeles, or NCIS-Florida, or whatever it is all those spin off nonsensical shows are called these days.It's one big caricature that even amateurs can't make as bad as these producers managed to do.This 'movie' is a total waste of watching-time if you like quality-TV.It gets 2 out of 10 because it's about time-travel, but deserves zero out of 10 for it's lameness.I have nothing good to say about this 'movie'. So stereotypical of current commercial TV it's to cry for.Yuck, yuck and more yuck.End-of-review.

I loved watching this and although I knew it was a failed pilot, i was still quickly overwhelmed by the huge sense of adventure in the story. Although this may have been made in a seemingly amateur style, I still believe that this show should have continued. The potential story's are endless. This left many questions unanswered as episodes should do as it makes you crave the next episode, thus there needs to be more. Call me inexperienced if you must but, I have not come across the whole idea of a ripple machine before. I always hated the whole uneasiness of movies with concepts of time travel where people go back in time for a certain reason and end up doing whatever they possible can to achieve the desired outcome. Then they return to their original time and only their desired result has occurred. I'm sure there should have been millions of ripples after the destruction they had caused. But this show tackles that problem implementing a true-sight backdrop for all ripples in time allowing the time travelers to know precisely the consequences of their actions.Overall this film was intriguing and adventurously fun.

In my opinion, it was a good pilot. I'll avoid giving any spoilers, being overly vague if you haven't watched it.I'd expect it they spent a lot on the costumes, sets, etc. They did a nice job where they went.This would be very interesting to see where they took it. It has a lot of potential. How good it ends up being would be totally up to how creative the writing staff was. The first adventure wasn't as exciting as it should have been, but it didn't need to be. It was to showcase what could have been done, and how they were going to behave with their new toy. If you go back and watch the pilots of a lot of shows you love, they were rough, and you wouldn't expect them to make it. It takes time to form a bond with the characters. I could see strong influences from shows such as Quantum Leap (what), Sliders (why), Stargate (where), and Primeval (same magic, different cause). The "who" was outlined in the pilot, but not really built upon. Nice, but why will there be future episodes? There's a hint for a second episode at the end of the pilot, and another commenter gave the same assumption that I had based on the very limited information given.It *could* be a great show. It could be horrible. Again, it would be up to the writers to help us form a bond with the characters, and a drive to *want* to see the next episode.Syfy, give it a chance. What's the worst that could happen. It won't be as bad as Sharktopus, Sharknado, or ... well honestly, you have a huge catalog of horrible shows and movies, with a few good ones mixed in. At least this one doesn't appear to be recycling sets, horrible acting, or even recycled scenes. Yes, the viewers do notice, and we're wary of watching a Syfy productions.

This is a tale already better told by other shows like Time Tunnel, 7 Days, Eureka, Star Trek's "The City on the Edge of Forever" and the classic novel "The End of Eternity" by Issac Asimov. The basic plot is to go back and change the past in order to change the future. The contradictions in the story are tedious and the plot twists gratuitous. The time travel device is unstable and random, so the 'window' opens for a short time and random location that just happens to give an opportunity to make the major change in the present by killing somebody that kills somebody else that causes the present day bad guy to do what he did, which he does to cause the intervention in the past so he doesn't do what he did, which he did because he doesn't like how events naturally unfold in his life, which if changed he will not know to cause the intervention... this is the classic grandfather paradox we other time travelers know is a loop in time that destroys itself so it never happens. The good guys quickly come up with a poorly thought out plan as the clock ticks down, and they just happen to have the period costumes, maps, old license plate records and obscure biographies to lurch through their mission, with suicide pills in case they don't make it back, since their mere presence in the past will have unpredictable results, (unless they become even more disruptive unidentified corpses), while home base has a magic predictor machine that instantly guesses what will happen. Of course, cold blooded murder is avoided at the end by changing the twice removed bad guy from a career criminal and murderer into a war hero, and saving his sister from dying to boot, which will cause even more disruption by inserting a dead person into the new timeline. The pilot ends with a paradoxical cliffhanger as the maniacal military man comes completely prepared for the random switch to another window and he steps into the past to cause some major change in history. I'm only guessing, but he probably shoots Hitler... or maybe his own grandfather. Tune in to the next episode as our heroes,magically protected by the unstable time portal from the effects of any changes in history,save the day with luck, guts and good looks. No stars for a badly written story and cliché acting.