Clever for the smart people

Rating: 10/10 (1 February 2013)

I never saw this in the cinema due to a friend saying it was only an OK film. So I thought I'd wait and not waste my money on just an OK film. But now that I have seen it... Wow. It went straight into my top ten films of all time.
Now to why this film is so great: amazing actors, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's make-up is astonishing it took me a while to truly recognise him, and his acting picking up on little mannerisms of Bruce wills make him totally believable he could have been a younger Bruce Willis. But stealing away the thunder was Pierce Gagnon who plays Cid, a young boy who has already been through so much, and has developed amazing telekinetic powers more powerful than everyone else combined. But is too young to understand it all. He was so believable I almost cried after finding out what his life was like. And even though we're told he becomes an evil gang lord that is unstoppable and eventually kills Older Joes wife and we're supposed to dislike him, I couldn't help but worry for the kid when Bruce Willis was trying to kill him, it's not really the kids fault, and after loosing his family at such a young age and left all alone, who can blame him for turning out the way he did. But thankfully Joe changes everything and the kid can grow up with a loving family. But then if you have managed to follow the plot it's easy to forgive older Joe for trying to do it, it's mixes in so many emotions. Matched the strong story they have managed to pull off a masterpiece creating this film.
But this film is not for people who only enjoy the works of classic directors such as Hitcock. People who like to see influences from older films in modern movies. This movie doesn't do or need that. It's amazing all by itself, and anyone who thinks I'm insane to even compare to a director such as Hitcock, just remember Hitcock wasn't always the master director everyone thinks he is today, example Vertigo was not successful when it was released.
Now to address some confusions a lot of people have with this film: Yes people travel through time but is the movie about time travel? Not really. Is this film about people that have what some people call 'superpowers' ? No. This film is about how far people would go for what they want. Like many other films such as Taken and others. But this one has time travel, it has telekinetic powers, which makes it cool.
Time travel- a lot of people are saying it was never explained and would have caused major plot holes and paradoxes, that none of it was believable. But having a background in physics I can truly say nothing within the known laws of physics says anything in this film is impossible. And the biggest confusion most people have is that time is just an illusion that we humans created, it's difficult to explain but basically time doesn't work how most people think it does. I would go further into detail but why bother. I think most people have read too much into this which is why they disliked it, the secret to enjoy a film, is to not read too much into things. Movies are entertainment, they're not suppose to be entirely realistic, if I wanted just pure realism I wouldn't watch films I'd just live my own life, cause it doesn't get more real than that. And it's free.
Telekinetic powers- again studies show there's fact in here. Surely everyone's see that toy where you put on a helmet and you can move a ball up and down a tube with your mind. And surely everyone's heard of evolution! But yes I know what your thinking, evolution happens over many many years its taken a few tens of thousand years to get to where we are now. So this film is saying some people have evolved to having telekinetic powers in the next 30 years? Well yes and no, the film says people have these powers but its not that strong as most can only lift up a coin. But is it possible? Actually it just might be, human evolution hasn't stopped not even close, actually it's accelerating! So there's no reason why it couldn't happen, our brains already give out waves of information. The only reason humans grow old and die is because the brain is too stupid and hasn't fully evolved to prevent the body it controls from growing old and weak. So theoretically it's possible, remember gravity is still just a theory.
So if you've seen this movie but thought it wasn't believable enough, watch it again and ask yourself, why couldn't this be real. Is there a way you can prove its impossible. But in the end Remember its still just a film just sit back and go with it stop criticising every little detail cause you're going to miss the film if you do.
I've touched upon the two major elements that seemed to halt the entertainment happening to people who thought its was a failed attempt of a time travel film. And even after reading this and you find everything I've said is a lie, there's no hope for you.