It's not a documentary about the space-time continuum. But that's okay.

Rating: 8/10 (10 October 2012)

For a slick, well-paced, sci-fi action film with some comedy/horror elements thrown in there, I thought it had some substance.
If it were a film solely wrapped up in time travel and its practicalities, I could see some valid arguments arising about the "loop"-holes. But it's not about time travel. And if the fact that people aren't sent into the prehistoric era (where they COULD potentially survive and thus change all of history) instead of 30 years into the past (where they're "guaranteed" to die) is so bothersome that you can't focus on the rest of the film, I don't know how you get through anything but the News.
And I certainly can't deal with people not being able to "suspend their disbelief" ONLY once the telekinesis aspect is introduced. You've already bought into time-travel. Get over it.
Technically, I thought it was pretty great. The timing is on point, it has some decent acting (especially the boy), sharp writing, some pretty wicked visuals (minus only a couple cheap CG effects), and I thought the aesthetic of "the future" was quite believable.
With all of this being said, I also actually cared about the characters, which is a rarity in any sort of action film right now. You can understand them. They're all motivated by something - so that at least when it comes to "suspending your disbelief," it's with the fantastical elements, and not with the characters. The story actually poses a lot of interesting questions and ideas about power and morality and love and maternal relationships that actually go beyond the events in the film, if you choose to dig a little.
So although, I agree, it's a stretch calling it a masterpiece, let's not be knocking a film that has an abundance of redeeming qualities because it didn't give a full-on account of the space-time continuum.
Hope this makes sense. It be 3am.
AND ALLLSSSSSOOO: It's not Children of Men. It's also not for the same people as Children of Men. I thought that for a film that's mostly geared toward - I would assume - male teens, it has filled a lot of gaps that other films in that category have left out.