Ctrl Z (2007) User Reviews

Good Short Film

[crossbow0106 · 9/10 · 29 March 2008]

This film was an award winner at the Sundance Film Festival and stars Tony Hale as a repressed, nerdy guy working at an office. He is encouraged by the very pretty Emy Coligado to just hit "CTRL Z" on his keyboard. All of a sudden, he realizes he can go back in time to change things. There is not much more to say about it, because the film is only six minutes long. Zachary Levi, who is the star of the TV show "Chuck" plays his boss. The film is easy to take and anyone who works in an office knows a guy like this (or, is this guy). Nothing earth shattering, just a slice of office life. Check it out.

As good as it's short

[Horst_In_Translation · 6/10 · 21 September 2013]

Ctrl Z only runs for slightly longer than 6 minutes, but delivers pretty nicely. A hard office worker to an incompetent boss (competently played by "Chuck" Zachari Levi) realizes that he can trick time by pressing the keyboard combination ctrl+z. After testing it out for a bit, he goes to his office's boss, tells him exactly what he thinks about him, then leave the room and tells his female coworker how he really feels about her. Right, when he returns to the keyboard he sees another worker fixing the keyboard. Yep. That's right. No way to get back from this one. Seconds later, he's not only totally embarrassed, but also totally fired. Still, things end on a high note and make the viewer smile right before the credits roll in as we realize way before Stuart that, even if his experiment went kinda wrong, he may have gained more than he lost from it.

Two years after the short film was released, the director Robert Kirbyson, female lead Emy Coligado and the central character, played by Tony Hale from Arrested Development and Veep for which he just got his first Emmy nomination, decided to turn the short film into a mini-series. I haven't seen it, but definitely interested, because I'd surely recommend taking a look at this short movie.