Wasted about an hour of my life on this film, thinking it was going to be a decent time travel film and maybe even a hidden gem.
However, it was so bad I couldn't even finish the thing.
The acting (bar Jeff Daniels and the guy playing the bus driver) was uniformly terrible. It felt like watching one of those really cheap daytime TV shows full of people who can't act.
The storyline was an unsophisticated and childish idea about sight-seeing time travellers who visit places where disastrous events are about to take place so they can observe for their own pleasure.
The daftest thing though, was how Jeff Daniels finds out about the time travellers, which is via finding a passport belonging to one of them with lots of different dates on it. Forgetting the possible issues around a time traveller using the same passport for tens or even hundreds of years without it being an issue (I'm thinking here about how passports have changed over the years and they would need different ones for different time periods), the most stupid thing about it is how he suddenly jumps to the conclusion of them being time travellers without even a hint of scepticism or even considering any other possible scenarios (such as a fake passport or even just putting it down to some weird unexplainable anomaly). Of all they ways he could have discovered their secret, this was about the daftest and his sudden conviction that were time travellers based on this passport with mismatching dates on it was not at all believable and rather ludicrous.
Terrible film.
However, it was so bad I couldn't even finish the thing.
The acting (bar Jeff Daniels and the guy playing the bus driver) was uniformly terrible. It felt like watching one of those really cheap daytime TV shows full of people who can't act.
The storyline was an unsophisticated and childish idea about sight-seeing time travellers who visit places where disastrous events are about to take place so they can observe for their own pleasure.
The daftest thing though, was how Jeff Daniels finds out about the time travellers, which is via finding a passport belonging to one of them with lots of different dates on it. Forgetting the possible issues around a time traveller using the same passport for tens or even hundreds of years without it being an issue (I'm thinking here about how passports have changed over the years and they would need different ones for different time periods), the most stupid thing about it is how he suddenly jumps to the conclusion of them being time travellers without even a hint of scepticism or even considering any other possible scenarios (such as a fake passport or even just putting it down to some weird unexplainable anomaly). Of all they ways he could have discovered their secret, this was about the daftest and his sudden conviction that were time travellers based on this passport with mismatching dates on it was not at all believable and rather ludicrous.
Terrible film.