Madelines (2022)
5/10
Kinda dark comedy
3 April 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This was a bit weird I must say. You have a couple inventing a time machine in their garage where no one of these persons seems rather intelligent/intellectual/thoughtful or methodical in any form, which you expect from an inventor/scientist right?

Then they have a discussion about testing on organic life or not. The woman clearly say she does not want to while the man insists. Because she is upset with the man she tries the time machine on her self! There is some wrong logic here...

They quickly realize there is something wrong and it takes like one second for the female to find out why looking at the computer screen. They show a simple programmatic loop, which like every dummy programmer can write. So the person who invented a time machine cannot write a simple code loop?

I know every human can make mistakes and she was drunk while she was setting up the test, but come on. If I was to go in the future I would have thought at least something like that through.

Then the problem starts when copies of the woman starting appear in the garden. They end up deciding after a very short discussion that they must kill the copies. The woman having trouble killing herself so the task lands on the man. This part is kinda disturbing to me when they actually makes fun of killing the copies. Maybe this is suppose to be the horror part of the movie... When I watch this part of the movie I thought to myself: would not some neighbor react to like 50 people killed in the garden every day at the same time? I mean their house was not that isolated and you could clearly see the garden from above.

Also they show that the man get rid of the bodies using some acid in the bathtub, but later when they have an argue about the killing he claims the police are gonna put them in jail for all the killing and at the same time he shows that the bodies are stored in a room in the house! You would not be able to live in that house if you have 50 dead bodies in a room. Can you imagine the smell that would cause?

There is also a third person involved in this movie, the financer. He comes around from time to time and states he wants some results, always in a awkward manner. Later on they explains the situation for him and he kinda drops out of the story.

The ending is fine and what you can expect from a time machine movie.

Overall the acting/directing is ok, but in some scenes the special effects are pretty bad. But the conversations between the woman copies are pretty well done.

I was gonna give this a 4 but since it is a comedy I rated it higher to a 5.
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