Review of Primer (2004) by Jordan N — 29 Aug 2012
For a lot of reasons, Primer makes an excellent case for the viability of impossible things. From highly realistic and believable time travel, to a first time director not named Orson Welles making a film where he stars in a main role, to being able to produce a movie on a budget of $7,000: a price that would pay for a few weeks of catering for a standard studio film.
It's rickety, schizophrenic, and feels both low-budget and strangely well made, like an old cassette tape of a great band nobody wrote an article on. Most of the dialogue is upper division science babble, most of it which is probably accurate since the writer/director was a math undergrad and software engineer, and the mix of classic sci-fi elements, contemporary realism and an improvisational undercurrent makes the film's plot and performance as unpredictable and unlikely as it's very existence.
This review of Primer (2004) was written by Jordan N on 29 Aug 2012.
Primer has generally received positive reviews.
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