Slipstream (2005)

Director:

David van Eyssen

Writers:

Louis Morneau (story) and
Phillip Badger (story) ...

Release Date:

January 2008 (France)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

He's got 10 minutes to change the past, or his future is history

Plot:

A scientist plots a bank robbery based around his newest invention -- a time travel gadget that will send its user 10 minutes into the past...

Plot Keywords:

Bank Robbery | Time Travel | Helicopter | Bus | Money

Cast

Sean Astin	...	Stuart Conway
Ivana Milicevic	...	Sarah Tanner
Vinnie Jones	...	Winston Briggs
Kevin Otto	...	Jake Hallman
Victoria Bartlett	...	Gillian
Thorsten Wedekind	...	Cam
Hakeem Kae-Kazim	...	Runson
Grant Swanby	...	Tokin
Verity Price	...	Margaret - Bank Teller
Chantal Lambert	...	Sigrid - Bank Manager
Patrick Lyster	...	Hooks
Andrew Whaley	...	Negotiator
Sean Higgs	...	Bus Driver
Tamsin MacCarthy	...	Air Stewardess
Eve Szapira	...	Carrie

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R | Germany:16 | Finland:K-15 | South Korea:15 | Netherlands:12 | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

Company:

Film Afrika Worldwide

Goofs:

Continuity: The action is set in the USA, but the bus in the hostage scene is right-hand drive and the door is on the left. This configuration is not used in the USA, but in South Africa where it was filmed.

Quotes:

Stuart Conway: [voiceover] You know the World Wide Web? You're like a fly trapped in it.

Movie Connections:

References Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Could have been good.

Just watched this on DVD. Potentially a good idea, spoiled by woeful direction and some of the worst acting I have seen outside of a school play. Sean Astin puts in a reasonable performance and Vinnie Jones tries hard, but the rest of the cast was appalling. It's almost as if the principal cast was signed up, locations scouted, and then they knocked on doors at their locations and asked people if they wanted to be in a movie. The story had promise but it all fell in a heap. Awful. Time travel movies can tend to be disjointed, but if it's done well it all makes sense in the end. This makes sense it just doesn't seem worth the effort of watching. I ended up sticking with it till the end and was not rewarded for my efforts.