Needle in a Timestack

This tells the story of a couple who are very much in love but are split up permanently and forget each other in the present by an ex who goes back in time.

The film isn't really about time travel. It's never really explained how it works or how people have come to just accept their lives regularly being altered by people messing around in the past.

This is all love story and if people can still be in love if they don't remember each other.

It's a bit slow and pretentious in places. I almost gave up after 5 mins. When I got to the end it felt more like achievement than satisfaction at a good film.

It really felt like it could have been much better done. It's hard to really care about the characters so you feel cold against what is happening instead of being drawn in and involved. It should be a film you discuss about after but it's just lacking in something.

It's worth a watch but it just really feels like it should have been a far bigger and better film. A waste as it's well acted and it's believable but not well executed.

I swear I dont know why ANYBODY has scored this below a 5. ( I do really) Yet some streaming platform drivel with huge plot holes, awful acting, that looks like its filmed on a camcorder from the 90s can score 8!!...That Genuinely puzzles me.

This film is a beautifully made and very well acted love story..And in a couple of scenes I really believed the love was real.

Its a love story between a man and a woman then a man and his best friend with a tiny bit of sci-fi thrown in.. but the over arching questions I took from it were.. Would destiny take over from time travel?

& What would you sacrifice to make to make people you love happy?

The world today is full of selfish people, you know the ones, you have seen the reviews on this very platform.. Always telling you what you're allowed to think or say but only they have freedom of speech.

Probably the epitome of selfishness..Taking away your ability to think freely.

Which leads me to why this excellent film scores o low... We see it in a lot of the reviews on here..scoring a very well made film a 1 because they dont like an actor in it, not thinking about all the people connected to that production or how well its actually made.. YOU may not like it for political or personal reasons but it doesnt warrant a score of 1. I watch lots of rubbish I really this is political broadcast... but I dont score it a 1 because in the old days the best rose to the top..sadly now people try to push the best to the bottom. A very new phenomenon.

For whatever the reasons that people score this low, what I can absolutely say about this beautiful love story is that it had me a 50 yr old martial arts, tough guy, zombie apocalypse movie loving guy like me actually choke up.

Its kinda like spotless mind in reverse...Kinda.

If you deep down love a good love story then sit back and enjoy.

If youre expecting back to the future part 3, then go watch it...This isnt for you.

An easy 7.5/10.

Excellent adaptation of the Silverberg original. Be prepared to leave this movie in the same way Silverberg leave you as a reader for many of his stories. Which is to say the direction and production has done its job well.

Needle in a Timestack (2021) is a movie my wife and I recently watched on Amazon Prime. The storyline follows a futuristic society where rich people can pay to go back in time and relive, see and experience other eras. Unfortunately sometimes they change the future, on purpose or by accident. Two men who used to be friends aren't so much any more after one of the friends marries the other's ex-wife. The rich friend is perceived to be trying to change the past to get his ex-wife back while the married friend is obsessed with the notion whether true or not which may be causing his marriage to fall apart.

This movie is directed by John Ridley (Cold Around the Heart) and stars Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami), Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) and Ulka Simone Mohanty (Soul).

This picture has a fantastic cast that is unfortunately under utilized. The movie has great dialogue and a unique premise. The characters are good and the circumstances are clever; unfortunately the overall execution is bad. There's too much focus on Odom's character looking lost and confused and not enough on the La Jolla friendship, the various back stories, and characters are used in an in-and-out fashion rather than a good mix of using them all together to understand the relationships, inner demons and why things are how they are. The ending is just okay and also could have been better.

This is a film with a lot of potential due to the great cast and premise but is executed poorly. I would score this a 5.5/10 and recommend watching once if nothing better is available.

The thing that impressed me the most is how realistic the future technology is. Very creepy in a Black Mirror way. It was a little slow, but NO WAY is it a 3.3 which is what the score is as I am writing this. I think that most people may see this as a love story, and this is how it seems at the beginning. But my interpretation of this movie is that technology is the antagonist here. No one can just live their life without someone interfering, and even though the message appears to be love will find a way in any circumstance, I see the real message is that technology that interferes by rewriting our past can cause a lot of pain and sorrow.