CrawlerChunky
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Mandeep Tyson
The acting in this movie is really good.
Payno
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
ophelia_hardin
It makes for nice Twilight Zone episode. I think the guys who did it deserve some credit for the story and the storytelling. There's certainly nothing wrong with it and I don't know if a bigger budget would have helped all that much. The lack of it isn't in evidence, which is also to their credit.What you've got is a supernatural premise and its conclusions; competently acted, shot, edited and scored. It's got a theme, a style, decent characterization and a compelling plot. Nothing more, nothing less.There are far worse ways to spend 98 minutes and I enjoyed it. Rod Serling would be proud. In a word: sweet.
innocuous
I gave this movie an extra star simply for having the guts to avoid any simple explanation of why (or if) a camcorder can stop time. As some other reviewers have pointed out, the camcorder is not really critical to the plot, except in the way that it reflects the yearning and distress of the lead character. My own guess is...no, it didn't stop time. It wouldn't make a substantial difference if it actually did.Unlike some reviewers, I did not find this film to be at all boring, or even slow-paced. It progresses with its own rhythm based on the process of grieving.I also found a lot of reasons to be sympathetic to the two survivors. (I'm about the same age as the main character and I lost my wife two years ago.) The portrayal of the depth of his loss, and the loss of a sense of direction and purpose is accurate. (I simply had to move out of our house after my wife died. I didn't move to an abandoned hospital, but I do understand how that could make perfect sense to someone.) The FX are quite good, though not anything groundbreaking. A couple scenes, particularly ones with the tennis balls, are not very good, but they are acceptable in an indie flick like this.Overall, I enjoyed it. The filmmakers exhibited a lot of restraint and left much unsaid.
sk-156
I just finished watching this movie, and I don't want to make it sound like I had an epiphany or anything, but I had a few moments of thoughts about it which changed the way I looked at this movie.On the surface this movie sounds like a Sci-Fi thriller of some sort a la "Deja-vu", and those who approach it as such will be very disappointed. You can not get wrapped up in the "science" of the movie, and I thought in a way the writer/director etc. dealt with that by omitting to even attempt at some lame explanation of how and why this man or the camera was able to stop time. Because guess what? It is not possible! ;-)You have to look at this movie the same way you look and at abstract painting. If you are looking at a portrait painted by a cubist painter, you are not going to say "What the hell? That does not look like any person I know!" You have to accept it as an interpretation of reality. The whole stoppage of time is a tool used to demonstrate the characters descent into his obsession with Sarah and the subsequent actions.Having said all this, this movie is by no means a masterpiece. But if you approach it knowing that it is not your regular sci-fi flick, you may give it more of a chance and not be disappointed by it. I thought the acting was pretty good (specially from actors that were not familiar to me). The story line and specially the ending leaves a lot to be desired, but it was still worth watching. The plot basically seemed to have grown out of perhaps a short story (in fact I wrote something similar when I was in high school) and was not properly nourished and matured. Perhaps in the hands of a better writer, it could have been much better...
mib-29
This movie is creepy and I don't think it is intentionally. While the movie is well done (good cinematography, directing and acting), the script seems to me a little bit off. Here you have a guy that looses his family in a car crash and gains the power to stop time through the pause button on a camcorder (no logical explanation ever given in the movie why and how), all he does with his new found powers is to stalk the woman of the other victim in the car crash. And this is where the movie becomes really creepy because she clearly doesn't want his advances. The movie becomes then this really strange action/psycho flick, that I don't think was ever truly the intention of the makers. Or maybe it was? To me the writing in this movie really sucks because there is no clear idea or concept or story line that makes sense. If you make the movie about a man loosing his family in a car crash who then gains the power to stop time, you develop the story with the context of a man trying to fix the past or someone trying to prevent others from experiencing similar traumas (in the movie the main character does try to help others, but always with catastrophic results. The writer/director could have just explored this and the movie would have been fine). Or they could have made the entire movie just about the abuse of power ... in that case the car crash would not have been a necessary element. Or the movie could have been about how you protect yourself from somebody who has these powers and is after you. In that case the movie could have been set in the future where that kind of power might be available (of course only in the movies). Bottom line: there are three stories wrapped up in one movie and that is what makes it so bad. I don't think this movie is worth watching other than for the special effects, which I have seen however in other movies before. And now that I think of it, it almost seems to me that the idea for the movie was developed because of the special effect. That would explain the weakness of the script and the hodge podge of ideas.
