Review of Synchronicity

Synchronicity (IV) (2015)
7/10
What parallel universe is this?
28 April 2016
Warning: Spoilers
After reading some reviews here, I decided to go see this movie. What if you could create a wormhole, connecting the present with the future? What if you'd hop through such a wormhole? What if .... Those were, no doubt, some of the questions which led to the creation of this movie.

So that is pretty much where the story starts: three scientists open a wormhole - or so they say. It doesn't take long or proof that it worked, presents itself.

And there is a girl - the lead scientist follows her into his own doom, risking it all. Yeah, women.

The 80's synthesizer soundtrack is really nice. It adds a familiar strangeness to the movie, it almost places it in the 80's. But no, the real setting is present day, with an eerie skyline with drones projecting swooping searchlights. An alternate universe, perhaps?

A rich dude provides the highly dangerous and expensive radioactive spheres (fuel?) which are crucial to the experiments. Then the machine is situated in a plastic tent, or at least they have to go through a tunnel which looks like a plastic tube greenhouse. But why? To contain radioactive particles? Now that's a laugh.

And then the rich dude cheats because the object going through the wormhole, is owned by his company and he lays claim om half the machine? I just don't buy it.

At the end, the mind-warping time-travel / parallel universe hopping theories leave you baffled. It's OK to try, but no one ever really succeeds in ending such a story, without leaving the viewer with more questions than answers. Maybe, that is not a bad thing. But, for me, things didn't add up.
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