I just finished watching this movie at home and I must say that it has the qualities of a big production movie. That is, it has high definition film quality and it doesn't look like a low budget production. The acting is pretty solid all around. Even the plot was decent, but not thrilling.
I thought I had it all figured out toward the end, but at the last minute, something happens to make you reconsider everything.
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After the last minute handshake that makes you think maybe this time traveler might actually be from the future, you have to come back to reality and realize this is probably a cult scam. Why? There are police records of the woman who has done this exact same thing in the past and the gov't agent knew she would ask for the main character to bring her a child. If this were real life, you would quickly dismiss her as a fraud. For the majority of the film, everything points to this being a full fledged cult right up until the last moment when the secret handshake turns everything upside down. If a movie wants to suspend your disbelief, it needs to do better than that. Maybe this movie should have planted more clues along the way and reveal them at the end. Or walk a thinner line between a cult leader and a time traveler. But just pulling a 360 right at the end with nothing to back it up doesn't work for me.
Overall, I think it was a slightly above average effort. The production values were awesome, but the plot lacked because of the the abrupt and unfulfilling ending. I know a believable ending for this kind of movie is extremely hard to accomplish, but this movie didn't really try to give us that.
I thought I had it all figured out toward the end, but at the last minute, something happens to make you reconsider everything.
Spoiler alert... Quit reading if you don't want to read a spoiler!
After the last minute handshake that makes you think maybe this time traveler might actually be from the future, you have to come back to reality and realize this is probably a cult scam. Why? There are police records of the woman who has done this exact same thing in the past and the gov't agent knew she would ask for the main character to bring her a child. If this were real life, you would quickly dismiss her as a fraud. For the majority of the film, everything points to this being a full fledged cult right up until the last moment when the secret handshake turns everything upside down. If a movie wants to suspend your disbelief, it needs to do better than that. Maybe this movie should have planted more clues along the way and reveal them at the end. Or walk a thinner line between a cult leader and a time traveler. But just pulling a 360 right at the end with nothing to back it up doesn't work for me.
Overall, I think it was a slightly above average effort. The production values were awesome, but the plot lacked because of the the abrupt and unfulfilling ending. I know a believable ending for this kind of movie is extremely hard to accomplish, but this movie didn't really try to give us that.