Time travel ideas are always fascinating but very difficult to put into a story...
It's best when it is one part of the story which affects outcome of characters in minor ways but to be the main story line creates plenty of problems...
Firstly...can the viewer follow what is happening and how does one know which time line each segment of the story is showing...having to prove/show/explain every segment in terms of time line becomes bothersome and bogs down the flow of any story...(not a deal breaker yet...)
Secondly...plenty of paradoxes to overcome and in a short space of time can be difficult to convince...if not done well, this brings the viewer out of the experience and instead of focusing on the story, the viewer focuses on what the science is and where the script writers got it wrong...and thus missing out on even more of what's (already difficult to follow...) going on...(starting to be a deal breaker if the viewer wishes to follow/understand the story...)
Thirdly...can time travellers affect and change history? If possible, then present existence may be pointless because at any time, someone from the future may come back and change history and we know not how that might affect us and all around us on a daily basis...we become NPC in our own life... Whether this is true or not should be left to expert scientists but for the film viewer, the story becomes less relatable if the point is forced...
For this movie...the action and confusing going-ons might be entertaining but the main story line does not hold up...
There are too many examples of this to list but let me just give one to illustrate my point...
The last part of the movie where the "Time pincer" movement is used...meaning one group of fighters move along actual time line while another group of fighters move against actual time line...and together, they 'trap' the enemy at a specific time point...meanwhile, the enemy is moving along the actual time line...
Now, it would be ridiculous for the group moving against time line to shoot at the enemy...knowing full well that as the enemy moves forward, the bullets will leave their body and go back into the firing weapon...in that way, the enemy will never be hurt and the group moving against time line is just wasting effort...they will end up the fire fight with exactly the same amount of ammunition than they started with and any damage caused will be reversed by time actually moving forward...
Overall, I gave this a 3 rating for the effort and the mildly entertaining action scenes...but based on the story, I'd have given it a 1...having a fist fight with oneself in the past...ha...
It's best when it is one part of the story which affects outcome of characters in minor ways but to be the main story line creates plenty of problems...
Firstly...can the viewer follow what is happening and how does one know which time line each segment of the story is showing...having to prove/show/explain every segment in terms of time line becomes bothersome and bogs down the flow of any story...(not a deal breaker yet...)
Secondly...plenty of paradoxes to overcome and in a short space of time can be difficult to convince...if not done well, this brings the viewer out of the experience and instead of focusing on the story, the viewer focuses on what the science is and where the script writers got it wrong...and thus missing out on even more of what's (already difficult to follow...) going on...(starting to be a deal breaker if the viewer wishes to follow/understand the story...)
Thirdly...can time travellers affect and change history? If possible, then present existence may be pointless because at any time, someone from the future may come back and change history and we know not how that might affect us and all around us on a daily basis...we become NPC in our own life... Whether this is true or not should be left to expert scientists but for the film viewer, the story becomes less relatable if the point is forced...
For this movie...the action and confusing going-ons might be entertaining but the main story line does not hold up...
There are too many examples of this to list but let me just give one to illustrate my point...
The last part of the movie where the "Time pincer" movement is used...meaning one group of fighters move along actual time line while another group of fighters move against actual time line...and together, they 'trap' the enemy at a specific time point...meanwhile, the enemy is moving along the actual time line...
Now, it would be ridiculous for the group moving against time line to shoot at the enemy...knowing full well that as the enemy moves forward, the bullets will leave their body and go back into the firing weapon...in that way, the enemy will never be hurt and the group moving against time line is just wasting effort...they will end up the fire fight with exactly the same amount of ammunition than they started with and any damage caused will be reversed by time actually moving forward...
Overall, I gave this a 3 rating for the effort and the mildly entertaining action scenes...but based on the story, I'd have given it a 1...having a fist fight with oneself in the past...ha...