Whoa stop right there. As stupid as talking to your thirty years dead father through a ham radio sounds, it s actually handled fairly well, but it doesn t really matter. You see you can throw around plausibility as much as you want, but the ham radio thing is just a plot device to elevate this melodramatic thriller from mediocre to great. I m not even exactly sure why I came to accept the concept so easily, but it s probably because the film does such cool things with it. Think of Back to the Future , but Michael J. Fox is at a ham radio talking to a guy in the 60 s, or something like that.
Pictures change and burn marks on desks appear in the present as they re done in the past.
Once all this is established the meat of the plot begins. I won t give away too much here, but father and son use their new found time communication to save lives and solve a thirty year old murder. The way that the time communication thing is used is excellent throughout the film, there are many clever scenes and ideas that work very well. I ve used the word melodramatic quite a few times in this review, and not without reason. The movie reeks of it.