What could've been

Rating: 6/10 (19 July 2019)

The story has so much potential and it kills me how the director came up short. I felt like this film was an unfinished puzzle with too many missing pieces. The acting was superb, the makeup on Joseph blew my mind, and there were some parts that were very entertaining. However, there's too many things that aren't shown or explained in depth. The director leaves too much for the audience to decipher which I don't care for. For instance, How does Sara get killed during the timeline Young Joe grows old when they never even met? Maybe she was killed by someone else and that led to Cid becoming the Rainmaker but that was never explained or shown. Just adding a small detail like that to the plot would have made this narrative easier to comprehend and it would've made more sense. It also would've been cool to meet the terrifying Rainmaker in the future but we don't get to see that either. Overall, despite the many plot holes/paradoxes, the ending delivers a very important message; people have the power to keep the same rotten mistakes from happening. History doesn't have to repeat itself and the harmful cycle of violence doesn't have to continue.