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All things considered, this is more than watchable. It has a simple idea, a simple set and it executes it without too much hassle.

I didn't really get on board with any sense of drama and/or nervous tension, and I was unable to commit myself to the characters. Finding a lot of the acting a touch wooden with predictable scripting, although this may have been an intentional 'cheesy humour', I couldn't quite tell ! There was one character who didn't have many lines but was playing a 'thug/heavy' role, and in response to some techno babble asked for it to be dumbed down ... I did laugh out loud!

However, I am glad I watched to the end as there was an unexpected twist!

This flick is clearly not for everyone. If you need a fix of mindless entertainment, keep looking. If you want to try meeting the challenge of following multiple time loops that fold over on themselves, you'll be right at home.

Best viewing might result if you separate the movie into categories of Acting and Premise. Yes, the acting is uninspired, and the half dozen or so characters are largely under developed. They display a liberal helping of the nerd quality that goes with a small team (somehow) building a time travel machine unnoticed. But, their judgment ratchets back to plain ordinary or worse as they deal with mounting problems.

IMO, the premise and writing are where this story shines. There have been a lot of sci-fi tales that toy with time travel and multiple (or alternate) time lines. The easiest to understand and follow is the classic reboot, where events don't quite match a previous story, but story progression is relatively linear. Even when there is some interaction or movement of characters between parallel time lines, it's still relatively easy to keep up.

"Paradox" is the other flavor of time travel. In this case, the timeline includes not one, but multiple loops between the present and one hour into the future. Characters try coming to grips with concepts such as destiny, and whether they can alter the fates that seem to await all of them. At the heart is the question whether one can go into the past to change an event responsible for a current undesirable situation, and, of course, what happens if you meet yourself (or can you?). There is even an honorable mention of "Schrödinger's cat." The fact that a writer kept this all sorted out is worth the watch.

So to repeat: if you don't want to think, move along. If you want a challenge, press "Play."

The acting was slightly ropey at the start but once the story got going it evened out a bit. The antagonistic behaviour between the scientists very badly over done and didn't add a lot to the story. Nice little time paradox story and worth a watch. If a little bit more money was available for special effects and some scenes reshot with more finesse it could have been quite good.

I was tricked into giving this one some time by the first 2 reviews in the list. They lied. While the story synopsis implies there might be an interesting sci fi setup floating about, the first 10 mins of terrible acting, stale scenes and exposition make you not care about waiting to find out. The first scene was like an 80s kids drama of 'acting'. All fake urgency and 'drama'. The next scene with 2 cops in a car giving us the run down on the central group of scientists they were watching dragged on for what seemed like hours. I'm not sure it ever stopped. The 'scientists' were giving it their best 'teen 80s delinquent' impersonations which made me wonder if this movie was a tongue in cheek nod to those crappy movies of that period, (like we need more of them?), but that thought soon left my mind as I wished it to be over as soon as possible, but that wasn't going to happen till the full 90 minutes of excruciating was over. This is not worth your time. It's not clever, it's not funny, it's just boring, and badly done at that.

This review doesn't have any spoilers because there's nothing to spoil. The worst part of this film is the sudden inconsistencies and almost randomly atrocious continuity, not just in the plot, but in the characters' behaviour. Terrible dialogue, terrible, terrible, storyline; totally, 100% unsympathetic characters, and truly, monumentally awful acting. Too bad for MST3K to parody. Here's a neat time-travel trick - save yourself an hour and a half, and don't watch this crap.

One of the worst films I've ever seen.

I wish they'd mention somewhere this is based on 11 A.M. or Yeolhansi the Korean sci-fi film which in my opinion was far superior.

Over-all it's a fun film and I liked the changes they made to the storyline but again the original is fantastic!

Not sure what I can say about this movie that doesn't offend anyone that had a role in making it. I'm not sure what film the first two reviewers were watching but it sure as hell wasn't the same one the rest of us were. I'd hazard a guess that they have some link to the film. I have dubiously given this film a 3 purely because I did sit through all of it; and it would be a little harsh to rate it as low as some of the films I've switched off after ten minutes. That being said, I do feel that I've wasted 90 odd minutes of my life.

Despite liking the premise of the movie, as I'm a big SyFy and time travel fan, the film had an awful script, an even worse dialogue and acting that can only be described as 'below amateur'. I know there are some films where the dialogue simply can not be acted out well, and some of the actors in this were trying really hard. But the lead role is diabolical. I really don't understand from the moment he said his opening line why the director didn't say "Out!!!". Even more dis-satisfactory than that was the really lame attempt to create a 'Usual Suspects' type mystery and ending; but it simply pays a huge disservice to the classic.

I could go on, but I'll just warn you all against watching this movie. Especially if you're a die hard SyFy fan. It will only disappoint.

I've read the reviews on here and I tend to agree with all of them - Yes, I agree with the people who criticised it AND the people who loved it.

Is it low budget? Yes

Are the opening scenes and character exposition a little "amateur"? Yes

Is it poorly acted? For some of the lesser characters, perhaps.

Is it a very good idea for a time travel thriller? Yes

Has the time travel plot been meticulously planned? Yes, Kudos!

Is the overarching story line well executed? Yes

Are the lead actors and actresses engaging? Yes

Does it make you think, even after the movie has ended? Yes - and that's bang for buck!

Does it make sense? Yes

So that's it - a good idea for a film with a couple of interesting characters and relationships that,based around time travel, and a good time travel plot (which is a rare thing)

It didn't set the world on fire - low budget time travel films never do.

Zoe Bell probably was the best of the actors - I read on here she is also a stunt woman - which makes a lot of sense - She has a great physique and the director knew how to use her skills and assets - Reminded me a little of Sigourney Weaver in Galaxy Quest!

The other actors were a little forgettable, sadly.

So over all - some poor performances and a slightly amateur exposition did not diminish from the stronger points of the movie, which were a good time travel synopsis that was well executed and a good performance from Zoe Bell.

I've seen worse. Let's start with the music. Very soap opera reminiscent and a tad too loud. The lighting seemed fine, but the sound was odd. During the scenes where the actors were speaking in a normal volume, it was good. During the scenes where the characters were in a panic (and the actors were way over the top), the sound was somehow...hollow. I can't explain it. It was almost as if they knew the sound quality wasn't great, so they bumped up the volume on the music.

The premise, of course, is always fun. You could spend hours pondering the time travel paradox through your mind to no avail. The screenplay itself wasn't bad. I can only assume that the direction given the actors was to be intentionally over the top. Less is more in film, they know that. These are experienced actors. Was Michael Hurst simply catering to the B film fans?

Then again, Michael Hurst is providing work to actors that need to keep working. He's also likely having fun shooting, making a little money and building his own resume. I love Scifi...quality Scifi. If you enjoyed Ex Machina, Europa Report, Predestination, Snowpiercer, Automata, et cetera, then you will not find this to be worth your time. It could have been quite good had they slowed down and allowed for quality acting to come through. It felt like they rushed through to save money and were quite satisfied with just another B movie. It's a shame.

Just caught this on netflix, frigging hilariously awesome, this movie is straight out of the 80s/90s, didn't know they still made these. Great popcorn sci-fy/action flick with a lot of cheesy dialogue, B-movie acting and an interesting storyline. I would say it's something like 'The Cube' meets 'The Usual Suspects', two of my favorite flicks. Also a very fun time travel aspect that brings a lot of twists and turns to the table. Some great over the top bloody violent deaths like the cube too. The 10 rating might be too high obviously but I just want to exaggerate that its a great B-movie flick. I can't believe people are giving this a negative review for being cheesy? Thats like giving Toy Story a bad review for being unrealistic. Anybody who says this movie stinks doesn't understand the B-movie genre. Watching it again soon with a couple brews this time, can't wait!

If you stick with it it gets better the longer it runs. So it's easy to stick with it :) The time stuff don't worry about it, and who can ever work that out anyway. It's an interesting film obviously a lower budget but that doesn't stop a good story. And this has a good story. Well a very passable story. As I said in the tittle I think it's a good movie, not incredible but a lot better than many other movies of this budget. Worth a watch. It's actually a bit of a thriller really. A who done it who is the killer type of thing. In the end you find out everything and it's rewarding.

Slight Spoiler to start but nothing that gives away from the film. Not that its worth watching at all.

So the first 5 minutes you have two cops in a van doing recon and they sit there explaining who the 3 bad guys are. The main problem is the van is about 10 yards from the bad guys the cops are sitting in the front seats and yet the bad guys don't see them.

The van is blocking an entrance for god sake. I hate it when there are false reviews on movies.

I will not go on any further with the rest of the movie i have said enough!.

You know, I'm an MST3K fan. I can enjoy a bad movie. I can enjoy campy acting and low-budget special effects. (Plus, I'm on a time-travel kick right now; the bit where an actor jumps to the future, sees a bunch of weird stuff, and jumps back, and you spend the next little while seeing it fall into place is fun. You don't even need SFX to enjoy that.) And I even get a particular kind of joy from watching amateur productions.

But, movie-wrights take note: profanity is not spackle that fixes holes in your writing or in the acting! It does not magically make your characters' lines sound more passionate, urgent or in any other way dramatic. "We're going to f***ing die" does not mean "we're going to die and I'm scared." You either write "we've spent our lives hiding from danger / so many people are counting on us to succeed / we finally have the chance to fall in love / whatever ... and suddenly our time has run out," or you say "we're going to die" with real terror in your voice. "We're going to f***ing die" means "we're going to die, so why shouldn't the viewers have a rotten day, too?" If an actor can't act like his character hates another character, lamely spitting out F-bombs every thirty seconds won't help. It just makes me think either the writer or the director hates me.

If it weren't for the R-rated language, I could invite my wife and maybe even my kids to laugh at this film with me. (It's not like the combined sixty seconds of gore is very realistic.) Instead, I'll have to delete it from my viewing history so the kids don't accidentally click on it anytime soon.

Deep in the heart of the city, a group of brilliant young scientists, led by the mysterious Mr. Landau, are on the brink of completing a machine that will let them travel one hour forward in time. When the first to time travel comes back with dire warnings of the rest of the group's impending demise, who can they trust? More to the point, will they survive, or is their fate already sealed?

Paradox has all the usual ingredients of modern, low budget sci-fi thrillers, from the convoluted story packed with twists and turns, to wonky sets, ropey CGI and hammy acting. The thing is, it actually seems to work for the most part.

The movie is pacey, energetic and unpretentious. Despite it's obviously low budget and limited crop of acting talent, the ensuing 90 minutes are rather enjoyable. Naturally, Zoe Bell is the cream of the acting crop here and she's always worth watching. Her physical talent is a touch underused during the film, but when she gets the opportunity, she uses it well. The rest of the largely unknown cast, despite having some truly naff dialogue to work with, are at least appealing despite some, shall we say, enthusiastic performances.

The direction and editing are pretty snappy and the movie motors along at a fair old click. It's silly, perils of time travel sci-fi hokum, so if you're expecting anything more, this movie is not one for you to watch. If however, you fancy some cheesy, undemanding fun with some campy acting thrown in with your thrills and spills, then there will be no contradictions in you giving Paradox a view.

Clearly this is made on a relative small budget for straight to TV\DVD release, which maybe some should consider if scoring based on films with ten to a hundred times the budget with visuals to match.

So I try to review based more on acting and story. The first 15 minutes or so of acting in fairness did seen rather poor but certainly picked up during the film.

Sadly the time machine itself seemed very unrealistic and I was left feeling they could have put far more effort into that than they did with what seemed like nothing more than a bit of stage rigging that you often see in pop-up form in shopping centers etc when they have "celebrity" appearances etc. However I tried to not let that bother me to much and just try to enjoy what was clearly a budget film. Soundtrack was decent enough and certainly helped with the atmosphere for the film quite a lot so top marks on that.

The story itself was certainly above average for these budget films and no real pointless angles or daft endings even if a very slight twist in the end. Sure, if you over analyze the script and scenes you will find plot holes to complain about quite easily. But it's not supposed to be or claiming to be a factually or theoretically correct on the script front. If your willing to just sit and watch the film without over analyzing or judging it to much based on budget it's quite an enjoyable film to fill 90 minutes.

Personally, I can't understand all the people who gave 1/10 points. It is obviously a B movie and it wasn't in the cinemas (at least not in Germany), so it has a small audience. I e.g. just watched it on Netflix. What I think is great, is the unconventional and brave story and plot. Few movies dare to have these, these days. Nothing the less, it is exactly what I ask of a movie. I want a movie to bend reality, to create a world of dreams and make me wonder about the big things in life (not intended to sound pathetic). And Paradox did this as far as it showed me things over which I don't think too often. Having all these things in mind, I think Paradox earned the 8 points.

Never going to be a classic, but definitely watchable. Some nice twists and turns and unexpected ending.

After watching the full 90 (or so) minutes of this absolute turkey, I just had to register so that I could comment. It started out bad and grew worse with every passing minute - that's 90 minutes of my life I will never get back! Funny thing is that as I got deeper into it, I was compelled to keep watching just to see how bad it could get and in that respect, it didn't disappoint. (I have just been informed that I need more lines so here goes) The use of profanities (almost every other word was "F") was entirely unnecessary and did nothing to enhance the suspense or the plot and the denouement was entirely predictable. No proper explanation either for the oriental looking guy who donned a Vaderesque outfit but after that was never seen again although I may have fallen asleep at some point. So in summary, I reckon that this is probably the worst film I have ever seen, well apart from Mama Mia but I think that really goes without saying doesn't it?

Sometimes I forget how bad amateur actors can be. This feels like a college film project. The dialogue and acting was below par. It was the delivery of the lines. So much of it was overdone, or else delivered in a monotone. They could of used a bit of acting coaching. I am not sure the lines were even that bad overall, but the way they said them, the echoing of the sound and cheapness showed in the sound and sets. Also way too many f-words. They feel so phony. That always feels like such a cheap way to express your emotion to me. The NZ blonde actress slipped in and out of a NY/Jersey maybe NZ a bit accent and then a more normal American accent. I guess she is actually a stunt women as a primary career whom has moved to acting.

The movie moved bit slowly even though it was trying to move fast, it was a little boring as it went. Luckily you can FF on netflix. The ending was not that satisfying.

I will give them props for the actual machine effects. They did good with that. When they got zapped back and forth it looked good. It looks like they shot the entire movie in a parking garage. It is a good effort for a low budget movie.