Lazy Boy (2015) User Reviews

Predictable as time travel stories go, but the main idea just works very well

[JurijFedorov · 8/10 · 5 October 2019]

Time travel short films are notorious. They are by far the hardest short films do make and do right. But if you succeed you have created something very few people in this world could replicate. This is a breath of fresh air. I was waiting for the scene where it would jump the shark or where Deus ex machina would change everything, but the story here is actually very well structured. Which is a huge achievement for a time travel movie!

It does lack originality though. While it's fun to watch and the concept is great, it feels like just like other time travel movie concepts. The writers never really took the extra step to make it their own. They used a tried and true concept. This has a bad side to it as the movie cannot go anywhere. If you don't develop a full story you are kinda stuck in a loop, which is exactly what this movie does. There is no ending in sight because the other stories the movie copied had big and advanced endings that are just too hard to replicate unless you really work the story through. Here we are presented with a married couple, but the story never even tries to give us an ending to that relationship besides the lead becoming a better man and then dying. So positive change is bad?

Great movie. But kinda leaves you wanting a fuller story that ends on some moral lesson instead of a twist ending that doesn't tell a story.

good work

[Kirpianuscus · 21 February 2019]

A simple story about an ordinary man and a recliner, a baby, a boy in tree and the good gesture changing everything. A sort of Sci Fi or fairy tale. or bitter comedy, reminding the problem of adultescence and the fascination about a Lazy Boy Nice, seductive, creative, sad, well crafted and, at the end, proposing a charming moral message. So, special.

Concept = flawed

[Sexy-scientist · 3/10 · 10 January 2021]

The concept is that when you open the recliner, time goes back a minute. The flaw is that if you were not on the recliner a minute back, you should be at the place you were. But that doesn't happen in this short. And hence, the whole story is a big plothole.