Movie Review: Time Lapse (2014)
Synopsis: An apartment building manager and his two friends check up on an elderly scientist who is behind on his rent and discover a machine that has been taking photographs of their apartment and showing scenes that take place 24 hours into the future. After learning the scientist is now deceased, they decide to pretend he is still alive and use the machine to make money. Their plan works. However, the stress of having to pose exactly like the photos show (or risk the consequences of stopping their timeline) and various other obstacles quickly begin to take their toll.
Who's in it? The movie stars Danielle Panabaker, Matt O’Leary, George Finn, Amin Joseph and Jason Spisak.
Review: I came across Time Lapse a couple nights ago and even though I had seen it before, I couldn't remember it and decided to give it another watch. I have to admit it was better than I expected.
The thing I found I liked best about this film was the overall mystery. At first, the premise seemed simple enough, pose exactly like the photo shows and their timeline remained unaffected. However, since they skipped over the things that would have led to those photos, part of the story remained missing. That meant there were plenty of poses (such as a scene leading to an awkward kiss) in desperate need of context.
This, combined with other missing details about the machine, such as whether or not it could take photos further into the future and why it stopped taking a photo twice each day, made it pretty clear there was much more to the story. I also have to admit, there were quite a few surprises when most of those details were filled in at the end, and we learned the truth about who was really determining their fate and why.
Another major surprise for me when watching this movie was how much action it had. When I first started watching it, I was concerned it would be a boring film. Thanks to unexpected visitors ranging from a suspicious bookie to a concerned friend of the dead scientist, the movie did manage to have quite a bit of suspense.
As the stress started to take its toll and Jasper (Finn) started to become paranoid to the point he was violent, it kept me a bit on the edge of my seat. It was pretty obvious he was going to snap at some point. However, it wasn’t as easy to figure out when that was going to be or what would finally be the final straw.
Final Opinion: The movie takes a little bit to get going. Once it does, it is a halfway decent mystery/thriller that is worth taking the time to watch, assuming of course, you’re able to keep up with it.
My Grade: A
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