Pointless. More grotesque than inspired.

Rating: 3/10 (24 September 2012)

The time travel plot is insipid. There are two tiny bits of inspiration --the mental confusion resulting from an arbitrary "present" and the calm acceptance of being unable to change the past-- but they don't amount to much. And of course, if you can't change the past it doesn't matter what the time travelers do, so that makes any suspense silly. The director's grotesqueries don't resonate with me; I like weirdness (Twin Peaks) but just having ugly people do odd stuff is not profound. The last 15 minutes of the film took an eternity to end, and didn't mean a damn thing. I know life is pointless, but I want a movie to distract me from that for awhile. The characters were not involving. Another thing I did like was the tentativeness of the romance. The fumbled kisses and embraces were well done.