Timecrimes (2008)

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This is a fun movie. It explores time travel in an interesting way, making one big consistent whole. While movies like Primer have more convoluted plots, this one is simpler. It explores the events within timeline in a way that menages to reinterpret them and is an interesting conceptual work. Though somewhat predictable, it still menages to be fun and thought provoking. There are not really any plot holes except that main character acts somewhat in fear of not ruining what he knows happens, at least at first, which is somewhat dubious, but the consistency is preserved. What would happen if he tried to subvert it is not explored, but still, a solid work and an unexplored angle. Less ambitious than Predestination, and at a lower budget, but delivers similar experience if in more low key way, which is sometimes sweeter, in a way small but clever films can be.

What a ride. This movie was intense and not necessarily in the fast paced action kind of way. It makes you think about consequences of actions and unchangeable truths. The word dreary comes to mind but it was such a worthwhile experience to have. Well worth a watch or two.

I really like time travel stories, especially those that come up with interesting ways to deal with the inherent paradoxes that manifest in corporal-temporal movement. Despite the poster suggesting a slasher film, Timecrimes is a cleverly plotted puzzle in which the main character tries to change events that he experienced in the past, or at least change events in such a way that they appear to be what he experienced in the past. There is not much exposition in the story, especially around the 'whats and whys' of the time-travel machine and not a lot happens (and what does happens, happens a lot); but, overall, the movie is interesting and entertaining; however, you need to pay attention. I spread it out over a couple of days, which was a mistake, as much of the story hinges on the repetition of details from the perspectives of the various doppelgangers of the time-displaced main character. If you miss too much of that, the ending won't make much sense.

There are just so many things about this movie that irk me. There's no logic or motivation for most of the way this guy acts. To name just a few: -why does Hector 2 leave the compound and not wait for H1 to go back in time, as he does not realize he is actually the man with the bandages at this point? -why does H2 follow the girl into the house at all? Theoretically if he left her alone, the most she could do is scare Clara. -why does H3 crash into the white car with H2 in it, when this is basically the catalyst that leads to (what he believes is) his wife's death? While I understand that he wants to get rid of H1&2 to take their place, he knows what crashing his car will cause, so should find an alternate way to achieve his goals. And the move doesn't even address the idea that if he were to do something differently to the past Hectors, what would happen? Would he cease to exist, changing all the time-lines? Or would it cause a schism with two parallel time-lines?There are just so many failures in logic. As far as production and theoretical time travel goes, it's not that bad, but when the entire main character seems to be driven by nothing other than it must be done to move the plot along, I just can't give it a good rating. There is simply no logic. And then at the end, throwing the scissors with your prints on them on the ground in the same yard as the girl! It will become obvious that those scissors belonged to the girl in due time, and since her hair was cut just before she fell to her death, it could be used to prove his guilt. Gaahhhhhhh this movie has me so frustrated I just want to scream.