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Artificial oxygen. That was my first clue that this was going to be nonsense. There's no such thing. There is only oxygen. It's an element, not a product. However you obtain it. However you extract it, it is still just oxygen. So the conceit of people being allergic to "artificial oxygen" is just utter nonsense.

Then there's the crying...

There isn't one character in this movie that doesn't blub their way through at least one painful dialogue exchange. The main character is practically in a permanent state of distress that is just exhausting to watch. It's just too much.

Then there's the acting, or rather, lack of it. The two main characters (when not crying like babies) are decent enough, but the rest are B-movie category at best, and amateur dramatics at worst. The evil lady leader is particularly good at scenery chewing. And yes, she tears up at points.

Then there is the usual time-travel nonsense that is badly thought out and realised, with things happening before they could possibly have occurred and paradoxes galore.

But the crying is the worst part. It just never ends and overshadows everything else to such an extent as to make the movie unwatchable and tedious.

Realistically, this is an episode of the Outer Limits, or Twilight Zone, padded out with unnecessary emotion and lack of thought. A trial of the senses to sit through.

And the ending...

Having altered time, our hero travels a few hundred yards from the ruins of the time machine building to find a shining city where ruins once stood. So these people, having been saved by his actions, couldn't even be bothered to restore the site of their redemption and restore it to glory? Couldn't be bothered to turn it into a monument of sorts? They just left it as a ruin? Come on! That's pathetic writing!

SUMMARY: Crying hero. Crying villains. Crying extras. Lots of crying. Overly melodramatic interactions. Nonsense time travel dynamics. Nonsensical basic science. Some truly awful acting. On the same level as After Earth but did I mention there was more crying? Not recommended at all.

Thought this film might be good because the trailer look alright. But that was a massive lie. My biggest problem with this film is why is there no oxygen? Plants get CO2 and then produce O2 from that, so why have they all died out and why can those "scientists" not keep them alive in a lab. Yet can make a time machine powered by nuclear fusion. The whole story is flawed from the start. The main character has this stupid little mustache you grow when you first develop facial hair so you don't shave it off to feel like an adult. And his acting wasn't the best, wasn't the worst either. The dialogue was bad, just plain bad. If they main guy isn't crying and screaming for what feels like no reason then he just says brother or Jude. The effects where ok. Back to the story and with spoilers so don't read anymore if you want to avoid them. The main character gets a chunky bracelet forced on him by his dad because it locks his DNA to the time machine. They have a time machine yet the dad still needs this huge hunk of junk to lock his sons DNA? Not just a sample of his blood? After some random crying and screaming on a roof which looked like an attempt to show off some effects the MC goes to the future to find a cure for some disease that isn't explained at all as well as find a way to get more oxygen. After arriving 400 years in the future he picks up a random berry not knowing anything about it, eats it and then dies from poisoning. Only to be saved by his best mate who conveniently got sent to the future to save him from this poison. They wander into the now overgrown city and find his wife's remains at her work. 400 years into the future and her bones that are left out in the elements are still there and intact perfectly. The MC cries because she is dead...400 years into the future?! Of course she is dead she was ill to start off with and it is way in the future what were you expecting, her to magically be alive and waiting for you?! They go back to the time machine fight a bit because it was all a set up by the big boss, who would have thought. He wins, big boss is unhappy in the past and arrested. MC sends plants back in the time machine and everything is fixed. They failed to save plants in a lab but a few randomly shoved into a time machine conveniently saves the world. So many plot holes and unexplained points leaving you feeling annoyed you say through the whole film.

This was going to get two stars but the very ending of the film is pretty good. The middle, oh my. It consists mostly of a useless main character and his buddy running around. If I genuinely cared for any of the characters in the first place I might go back and figure out exactly what was meant to be going on with them, despite the lack of character development related to communicating their friendship to the audience, which would get us to feel their bond in a deep down way and engage better with them.

The main character is difficult to root for because he is sniveling much of the time and not able to work anything out... until the very end, which as stated, is excellent.

The young boy in this was the most believable performer. The adults... hmm. Better direction and casting are needed here.

The creators could have done a bit of chemistry research. In the film we have 'artificial' oxygen which is somehow toxic compared to 'regular' oxygen. Guys, Oxygen is Oxygen however the heck it is made. Mix it with the right ratio of gasses, you have air. Did the people in 2067 forget there are three forms of oxygen or the like? If toxic, it's no big feat with the tech we have right now to work out why. Then extract the toxin, pathogen or non-diatomic molecules and presto, the air will be good for all. Why was this not done, or tried? Also, it's air we breathe, not just oxygen. Breathing Oxygen only will kill you.

I watched this with high hopes. An Australian sci fi film. Dystopia, futuristic, time travel. It ticked a lot of boxes. The premise is set well. The earth is dying, suffocating, all the trees and Oman the life are dead and one man can save it all. Cliche? Absolutely, but not one that hasn't been successful in the past.

The issue with the film is that it uses these cliches but there are so many layered over what is at times a confusing and contradictory story line. (He's the only one that can save the world but his best friend arrives a few hours later to save him?). They've only been in the future a day to save humanity but then they're talking about going back straight away? The main characters incessant emotional outbursts take its toll. It doesn't stop all the way through the film and it makes it hard to watch. This is accompanied by, at times, an overly dramatic loud score that, like the tears, does not stop. Silence is a fantastic element to use in Sci-Fi scoring. (Just watch Ridley Scott's Alien and listen to Jerry Goldsmith's score.) If not silence then at least some dynamic contrast to aid the building of the story and the tension.

Yes it's a low budget film but that really isn't an excuse for poor dialogue and storyline. The effects go from being really well shot - the abandoned cities - to poorly executed - the nuclear reactor looks like a school holiday art project. The problem overall is that it looks like a big sci fi film on a low budget and suffers from an unclear, and at times, incomprehensible narrative delivered poorly.

As an Aussie this has to be the most boring movie and we make some serious snooze feast in the past!! the main character Ethan is the most weakest human alive to save the earth. pfft utter rubbish. plot: kid has daddy issues and has to go to the future to find out why. ok you can move on to the next movie now