Jed Gould (DJ Jed the Fish Official)

Just doesn’t know what it is. Lead character, love interest, and physics were light years from believable. Physicist did not act like one, offering zero insight into how travel into the past is not at all prohibited by the math. Art direction desperately wanted to be Blade Runner (a detective story!), but that cannot help a plot going in 3 directions: No chemistry for a love story. Almost no comparisons for a parallel universe theory. Irrelevant mumbo jumbo for science. A good time travel story cannot dwell in the how, only the what, and how it affects emotions. Film was woefully bereft of emotion. Won’t waste my time getting into problems of logic — which are always abundant in time stories — but when the movie is believable, no one cares. People whining about the reviewer ‘lack of clarity’ complaints obviously worked on this film, because no impartial reviewers rescue a film with such zeal. I liked McTiernan films too, but he had a sense of storytelling. By the way, synchronicity with what? Angry I watched the first hour.

The heartbreaking thing is I believe that women are better leaders. So here’s Elizabeth Holmes, breaking the spell, showing us that’s not always true. You watch the film, rage roiling inside of you, and the best Alex Gibney can do is run the same photo shoot footage over and over again and finish failing to tell us what this corrupt woman is doing today. Unsatisfying and a tedious documentary. Mad that I watched it.

If you’re going to do an apocalypse movie, you really need more than overwrought sound design, bloodshot contact lenses, and leaves blowing around. The scene where the characters black out car windows but proceed 3 blocks guided by gps is just absurd. Other characters carry on about how you need to “see,” but what they are “seeing” remains a mystery. Not exactly a Hitchcock MacGuffin. And if suicide occurs within moments, what about all the guys in muscle cars, who evidently survive long enough to go on a campaign? That two of the biggest stars of the last 30 years settled for this script points to their desperation. The claimed views on Netflix are suspect. It appears an ambitious marketing department was driving the train on this one, because it certainly was not the director.