Volition (2019)
6/10
Hitting the reset button
10 March 2021
A clairvoyant man James finds his world being turned upside after brokering a deal with some small time crooks and a series of events following this meeting leads to James fearing for his safety after he starts to envision his own murder...

There are a long list of films that Volition borrows from and it's probably fair to say that if you broke it all down in to little 'fragments' there would probably be very little of it that is original. However, despite the familiarity Volition still manages to be fairly engaging and entertaining. At just 90 minutes in length, it gets the job done without ever becoming boring and the film is also anchored by a very good performance by leading actor Adrian Glynn McMorran (particularly when looking at how much more he had to do here compared to the other actors).

Director Tony Dean Smith handles things fairly well; the film has a nice fluidity and flow about it and it has a bit of style about it in its own sort of understated way. However, I can't say I'm totally sold on how the time travel is applied here and did find some of the supporting actors to be a tad weak, but having said that, they all do dovetail together to make this a reasonably distracting 90 minutes of cinema.

It's not mind-blowing, nor is it as clever as it thinks it is, but taken for what it is then it is quite enjoyable.
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