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"Thrill seekers" aka "The time shifters" concerns a tourist agency from the future, which offers its clients the opportunity to travel through the centuries in order to witness scenes of sorrow and carnage. One of these connaisseurs attracts the attention of a reporter living in the present, to wit the year 1999. This leads not to one, but to two different races against the clock...
If you like science fiction movies on a time travel theme, you'll be looking for plots involving branching timelines, diverging realities, loops, paradoxes and/or unwanted consequences. To be fair "Thrill seekers" delivers adequately on this front, although it's not an intellectual tour de force or a mindbender supreme. Sadly the movie suffers from some very lazy writing. For instance, our protagonist, who's a divorced man, has grown estranged from his son. When the boy tells him he's looking forward to attending an important game in the company of his mother and his stepfather, huge fluorescent letters seem to pop up on the screen : "GOT THAT ? GOT THAT ? THE GAME IN THE STADIUM, THAT'S WHERE A DISASTER WILL OCCUR". Contrast and compare to, say, "The Medusa touch", which is far more subtle in doling out information with regard to possible targets. As a result "The Medusa touch" springs greater surprises on the viewer.
Other examples of lazy writing : our protagonist discovers an anomaly in photographs of historic disasters along "Hindenburg" lines. This is not the result of months of painstaking research, he just takes a good look at some photographs appearing on a computer screen. And then the highly distinctive, unusual-looking individual featuring on these photographs shows up in the very same airplane as our protagonist. Quite a coincidence, given the huge number of flights occurring all over the USA...
Actor Martin Sheen, as the venomous director of the travel agency, gives by far the most compelling performance. This is worth mentioning since he is seen only on the screen of some gadget, amid much interference.
I've got to say that I found the idea of a time-travelling agency specializing in catastrophes weirdly convincing. Nowadays we've already got disaster tourists willing to pay good money in order to fly to some unfortunate area stricken by a hurricane or a forest fire ; travelling through time in order to sail on the "Lusitania" would be quite similar in intent.
"Thrill seekers" aka "The time shifters" concerns a tourist agency from the future, which offers its clients the opportunity to travel through the centuries in order to witness scenes of sorrow and carnage. One of these connaisseurs attracts the attention of a reporter living in the present, to wit the year 1999. This leads not to one, but to two different races against the clock...
If you like science fiction movies on a time travel theme, you'll be looking for plots involving branching timelines, diverging realities, loops, paradoxes and/or unwanted consequences. To be fair "Thrill seekers" delivers adequately on this front, although it's not an intellectual tour de force or a mindbender supreme. Sadly the movie suffers from some very lazy writing. For instance, our protagonist, who's a divorced man, has grown estranged from his son. When the boy tells him he's looking forward to attending an important game in the company of his mother and his stepfather, huge fluorescent letters seem to pop up on the screen : "GOT THAT ? GOT THAT ? THE GAME IN THE STADIUM, THAT'S WHERE A DISASTER WILL OCCUR". Contrast and compare to, say, "The Medusa touch", which is far more subtle in doling out information with regard to possible targets. As a result "The Medusa touch" springs greater surprises on the viewer.
Other examples of lazy writing : our protagonist discovers an anomaly in photographs of historic disasters along "Hindenburg" lines. This is not the result of months of painstaking research, he just takes a good look at some photographs appearing on a computer screen. And then the highly distinctive, unusual-looking individual featuring on these photographs shows up in the very same airplane as our protagonist. Quite a coincidence, given the huge number of flights occurring all over the USA...
Actor Martin Sheen, as the venomous director of the travel agency, gives by far the most compelling performance. This is worth mentioning since he is seen only on the screen of some gadget, amid much interference.
I've got to say that I found the idea of a time-travelling agency specializing in catastrophes weirdly convincing. Nowadays we've already got disaster tourists willing to pay good money in order to fly to some unfortunate area stricken by a hurricane or a forest fire ; travelling through time in order to sail on the "Lusitania" would be quite similar in intent.