You'll like it if you're prepared to think more than usual

Rating: 7/10 (30 November 2012)

As with any time travel based work in cinema, you must engage in suspension of disbelief; those who can't won't be selecting this movie to start with. If that's not enough, you even have to actually work your brain with this one to keep up with the plot. The film has a romance component and as you may have read from the official outline, it also has hit men and organized crime. What a soup mix I thought; but since I'm a Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jeff Daniels fan and also like Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt as well as other members of the cast, I gave it a shot. There's action, but that won't come as a surprise. I was thankful for the pricey Coke and popcorn to keep me interested during a few scenes. After a few minutes at the beginning of the movie, another element is introduced but not much will be spent on it till the end of the movie; that element is telekinesis. Okay, by now you must be having doubts if you'll be watching this movie to the end; I had the same doubts, ten bucks worth. Turns out the time travel, the telekinesis and the romance sub-plot do work out in the end. In fact, it is because of a brilliant, and I'm not using the term lightly, ending that I walked away, quite pleased having seen the whole movie. I was a bit annoyed by the nose prosthetic they put on Gordon-Levitt to make is transformation to Willis' character more believable; if you're making a movie with time travel and telekinesis, I don't think you'll have a problem with viewers believing they were the same person. Maybe I'm too picky about nose jobs.
Emily Blunt does not have an accent in this one and doesn't have a single funny line; she's also blond. I like her despite all that. Piper Perabo has aged wonderfully well; keep this in mind. I would have rated this movie higher, like most viewers have so far, but unless a flick with time travel and telekinesis is spectacular, I can't bring myself to give marks like Inception or the original Matrix. I still recommend it; all the actors deliver the best performances you could expect.