Philosophy and science fiction poorly examined!

Rating: 1/10 (30 May 2016)

A very incoherent and unusual experience. Unfortunately interesting visuals and cinematography doesn't make up for a movie which doesn't hold our interest as this was one of the most boring experiences I ever had. I tried my best to focus on the weird events and connect with the characters but this just doesn't happen. There are multiple time lines and life possibilities for the main character which are individually not that interesting. As soon as you somehow get track of what's happening in one time line the director just throws you in another meaningless direction which follows the main character until his death. At the end the message I got was "Our life is the sum of the choices we make". There is no problem with the message but the way we got there is totally unappealing. It may also discuss philosophical ideas such as "What would you make if you knew the outcome of a certain action?" but in the end it's just not worth the journey. The big bang and crunch were for me the most interesting aspects of the movie but they didn't seem to correlate to the main character in any way other than that he knew when the big crunch was going to happen. Strangely enough "It will bring order in our messed up ever-expanding life!". I would rather have these theories examined from a religious point of view. As a consequence of our choices and actions we will be then judged and either rewarded or punished without relating to any religion in particular. In conclusion, the movie had a lot of potential in its basic premise, visuals and cinematography but wasted it all mainly on a boring unfocused love story and mixing elements which does not correlate to each other in any meaningful way.