Dimensions is a crappy movie that doesn't seem to know what kind of story it wants to tell. They are exploring the idea of time-travel, but never do much with it other than the most obvious things. There's an attempt at a clumsy love story, but they can't commit enough so we can even understand who we should hope will get together. The ending doesn't clear it up at all, in fact we are left wondering what the point of the whole story might have been from the beginning. It feels as though the primary motivation of the entire film is to time travel to save a life, but later the audience is left questioning if the main character even tried. They needed to spend more time on discussions of why they were really building the machine, and what their end goal would be. Spending a short day of quality time with someone doesn't seem like enough to warrant this lifelong obsession.
I also found it ridiculous how the characters in Dimensions spend time exploring a bunch of nonsense science that they could never know in advance. One aspect I found particularly humorous (in a bad way) was the rehearsal of dancing through the time portal. There was no explanation how he knew any of this information, like the path through time, and then later someone who has done no rehearsals is able to navigate things just fine. I'm always a sucker for time travel movies, and there were brief snippets of clever ideas that Dimensions touches on but never fully explores. Instead the plot would get sidetracked with longing looks of love, or some random guy who is thrown in as an antagonist merely to demonstrate the dangers of their machine. I wouldn't recommend anyone waste their time watching Dimensions.
I also found it ridiculous how the characters in Dimensions spend time exploring a bunch of nonsense science that they could never know in advance. One aspect I found particularly humorous (in a bad way) was the rehearsal of dancing through the time portal. There was no explanation how he knew any of this information, like the path through time, and then later someone who has done no rehearsals is able to navigate things just fine. I'm always a sucker for time travel movies, and there were brief snippets of clever ideas that Dimensions touches on but never fully explores. Instead the plot would get sidetracked with longing looks of love, or some random guy who is thrown in as an antagonist merely to demonstrate the dangers of their machine. I wouldn't recommend anyone waste their time watching Dimensions.