2013 time loopy nonsense
Rating: 10/20
Plot: Kids attend a party on a night when an asteroid's strike causes time loop shenanigans. It's confusing for everybody involved.
"To meet oneself is to meet God."
This movie doesn't make a lot of sense, the characters are almost entirely unlikable, plot holes abound, and the movie doesn't make a lot of sense.
Of course, I feel silly because my main problem with the logic of this movie is the party that is thrown and the intelligence of a few of the characters. You've got some sort of space debris hitting earth and messing up time, but I'm hung up on a party that would never happen. Now, I've never actually been to a party and am therefore far from an authority on partying. But this was pretty ridiculous and made everything far less credible for me. This was a really loud movie--blaring techno music, loud glow stick colors, jerky editing, too many ideas--and it kind of gave me a headache.
Then, you've got the characters. Most of them are your typical 20-something idiots who are look like they're trying too hard to hold cups in the right way. But then you've got random characters spouting out quotes from the Talmud or pontificating about alternate universes.
This movie's got ideas, and some of them might even be good ideas. I liked what they did with a couch guy and some birds--nice touches. But it kind of gets lost in itself, fumbles around, pokes itself full of holes, and clunks along to a really unsatisfying ending. It probably could have been better, but I don't think it'll even survive as a cult classic because it's just too messy. And too 2013ish. And loud.
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