The Time Shifters (1999) (TV)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Mario Azzopardi

Writers (WGA):

Kurt Inderbitzin (written by) &
Gay Walch (written by)

Release Date:

17 October 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Sport | Thriller

Tagline:

If you could change the past would you?

Plot:

A reporter, learning of time travelers visiting 20th century disasters, tries to change the history they know by averting upcoming disasters.

Plot Keywords:

Disaster | Reporter | Hindenburg | Titanic | Pilot

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Casper Van Dien	...	Tom Merrick
Catherine Bell	...	Elizabeth Wintern
Theresa Saldana	...	Cortez
Peter Outerbridge	...	Felder
Julian Richings	...	Murray Trevor, Time-Traveling Tourist
Lawrence Dane	...	FBI Agent Baker
Catherine Oxenberg	...	Thrill Seekers Spokesperson (as Catherine Van Dien)
Mimi Kuzyk	...	Eleanor Grayson
James Allodi	...	FBI Agent Stanton
Deborah Odell	...	Jen
Martin Sheen	...	Grifasi
Matthew Bennett	...	Captain Tyler
Marc Donato	...	Kevin
Stephen Bogaert	...	Steve
Sumela Kay	...	Girl on Plane

Also Known As:

Thrill Seekers (USA) (alternative title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence and peril.

Runtime:

88 min | Argentina:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Germany:12 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Abandon Pictures

Trivia:

Copps Coliseum is a real hockey stadium, but although depicted as being in an unspecified U.S. city, it's actually in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The city skyline seen in front of the stadium fire at one point is that of Toronto.

Goofs:

Continuity: The car that rolls over is clearly not the same model as in the train. (Reused footage from Money Train (1995).)

Movie Connections:

References "Larry King Live" (1985)

This B-Movie is a little gem

Sometimes, you will find a little gem between all the cheap and poor B-movies that was aired all night on TV. "Thrill Seekers" is really one of this seldom gems and shows clearly, that you don't need a few 100-million dollars to made a good movie. The story makes it! And the story of the tourists from the future that traveling along the time-line to visit disasters of the past, is a very good plot. Our hero (living in our time) examines some old photos of disasters and make a very strange discovery... I will do not spoil the movie for you, but the many surprises and a lot of good twists (especially the last, and i mean the really very last :-) make it better than a lot of big Hollywood films that only works with massive action and CG-effects to cover a weak plot. Yes, you will probably find some logical errors in the film, but if you make a movie about time-travels, you can't avoid it, because nobody knows, what is really a logical error when time-travel warp the logic, or that, what we called logic, itself. So, what is going on when you go back in time and change the past... will you change the future, or some alternate futures in a multilevel universe? Who knows! And perhaps some visitors of the future are already among us... maybe it's a good idea to examine the photos of yesterdays disasters again and more exactly... I give it a 7 of 10. It is really worth to see it!