Review of Time Lapse (2014) by Jeff B — 08 Nov 2015

If you liked this film, you like impossibilities and utter garbled confusion. First of all, precognition, even with a camera, is physically and logically impossible, for cause cannot follow effect. The future now is a contradiction, and it also contradicts Plato's law of non-contradiction or that nothing can have both a property and lack of it at the same time.

But worst of all, such folly leads to lines so confusing, your brain spinning so out of control it misses a good chunk of plot: "No stop! Stop! All I have to do is put a new note on the window for tonight's picture, then when I see the message last night it will prevent you from catching me at the window just now.

" Such silly, comical lines take one right out of horrific into horrendous. And if the prescient camera here is predicting or seeing the future, that future must not be altered or you'll have to go to another dimension to do so, as all sci-fi fans know.

So when the characters are adjusting the present to the future, or picture of the future, making sure they're sitting in the right place, objects are just as such, etc. all logic and outcome breaks down.

Also, it's very hard to believe that someone can all of a sudden become a hardened murderer, even if he is a drug-taking gambler, or that two other people who've never even witnessed a crime can be so complicit and OK with said crime.

Finally, you've got two characters that have not had any reason to go berserk all most overnight do just that, and with great panache. Sorry folks, this one just didn't work for me.