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As a scifi fan with a penchant for time travel shenanigans this film was right up my street and for 90 minutes we were suitably entertained.

Is it Inception? No. So while the sniffy reviews are not completely wrong neither are they right. 5.4 is a silly low average score for a film this well made.

For a low budget small film that drops in at the required 90 minutes for easy Covid viewing it was just the ticket.

Yes, the characters are not massively deep enough, especially the "love interest". Yes, there are a plot few holes here and there with continuity bloopers. Yes, the "science bit" was a little low rent in its believability.

But put these aside and you'll find a fun Looper knock off to while away the time and a fun "time travel conundrum" with some great pay off's later in the film.

Movies like this can be a tough sell. Time travel obviously does not exist, yet there are many out there who are quick to say "That wouldn't happen". Yes, the writers have to have some creative freedom to break away and develop their ideas, but they also have to somehow convince us at the same time, so it can be a fine line.

In Volition there were definitely a few elements which I have seen played out in other time travel movies, mainly the whole cause and effect scenario, however they did try to put their own twist on things which I liked.

As much as I enjoyed those time travel elements I did find myself at times questioning the story. But overall there was some strong performances and enough to keep me entertained throughout.

.....and this becomes a decent low budget sci fi movie. Sort of a poundland Looper meets Primer mashup.

If you liked Timecrimes aka. Crono Crimenes, you will most likely enjoy this movie, too as it heads in a similar direction. It is short enough to not get boring and the story, while rather unbelievable on the science part, is really entertaining. The actors are likeable but not outstanding. All in all, it is definitely an above average movie. 6.5/10

But then again, I am a big fan of time travel / time loop movies, so I might be biased.

DO NOT READ THE REVIEWS

there is noting original in these reviews

you will most likely chose not to watch this movie

but then yow will miss your chance at watching a good effort

not the best movie ever, but not the worst, it will be how you choose to perceive it

holes? maybe? would you make it better? maybe? who cares? its a movie!!

I really wanted to like this. The leads are solid and attractive in their way, the concept is okay but breaks down over the course of the movie, and everything in it has been done over and over. And then reading all these reviews that swear it's the greatest movie since the last greatest movie, makes me think some reviewers are just not paying attention. I wouldn't pay to see this movie, and even finding it on Netflix I would come away a little disappointed.

I didn't really like the film's seedy, underworld, villainous scum environment but it provided a good setting for this presentation of time travel. Our protag "James" is played by a look-alike to Matthew Rhys of "The Americans" and all other actors are unknowns, too. Also, two of the villains who play cousins in the film are brothers in real life, so that's fun with meta. This is the editor-cum-director's first feature length film so you don't expect too much. And with time travel you tend to either love it or hate it depending on how well it's done. Though this iteration of time travel is different from most, it still didn't address the multiple-versions-of-the-traveller co-existing paradox. As such there's a recursive aspect to this as the director attempts to "unwind" the story towards the end. If you really care about this story you'll need to watch it two or even three times to fully process what's happening, kind of like what you needed to do for the more mainstream "Inception".

Hmmmm. Just annoying that IMDB lets these accounts continue. They are indeed created or at least assisted by this website, hence the long standing accounts, sometimes 3-6 years, with only one review. This movie has 31 reviews at the time of my writing and has at least 4 reviewers plugging this trap of a movie. Hopefully in the future we can see these accounts deleted and it will give a more accurate representation of the movies. The movie is barely watchable and fails in so many parts that most will be unable to finish this low budget miss mash.

Many of the reviews claim that it is a rip off from other movies. Well all movies are rip offs! This one is a well thought and well executed movie. I can recommend you to see it.

It looked like another psychic loser that couldn't make enough money to keep up his rent. In short order it turned into a semi-love story which soon morphed into an ingenious time-travel yarn! Unexpected twists popped up and the plot changed from a modest jog in the park to a to a warp-speed relay race.

I enjoy almost anything sci fi, but this one is frustrating to watch.

"Hey, I think I'll give this loser $10million worth of diamonds to try to find a seller, while I work in my hardware store. What could go wrong? "

Rife with bits of good ideas plagiarized from several other recognizable stories - zero original content in this one.

Watch it yourself, and you'll see the other reviews are as ridiculous as the movie

A prime example of why time-travel is considered the weakest of crutches for 'science' fiction. This movie can boast excellent acting, decent production and passable script, but fails miserably on either the 'wow' factor of good science fiction or the catharsis of revenge on the villains, whom you come to root for as miscast heroes slugging their way through a story that should have been round-filed. Surprising that the writer/director has actually been nominated and won several editing awards. It begs the question, if this is what wasn't cut out, how horrible are the excisions on the cutting room floor?

A clairvoyant man James finds his world being turned upside after brokering a deal with some small time crooks and a series of events following this meeting leads to James fearing for his safety after he starts to envision his own murder...

There are a long list of films that Volition borrows from and it's probably fair to say that if you broke it all down in to little 'fragments' there would probably be very little of it that is original. However, despite the familiarity Volition still manages to be fairly engaging and entertaining. At just 90 minutes in length, it gets the job done without ever becoming boring and the film is also anchored by a very good performance by leading actor Adrian Glynn McMorran (particularly when looking at how much more he had to do here compared to the other actors).

Director Tony Dean Smith handles things fairly well; the film has a nice fluidity and flow about it and it has a bit of style about it in its own sort of understated way. However, I can't say I'm totally sold on how the time travel is applied here and did find some of the supporting actors to be a tad weak, but having said that, they all do dovetail together to make this a reasonably distracting 90 minutes of cinema.

It's not mind-blowing, nor is it as clever as it thinks it is, but taken for what it is then it is quite enjoyable.

This movie gave me a low budget Butterfly Effect vibe. I went in with no expectations. I did enjoy it.

Basically that... Yes, the movie is intriguing to start with and for about the first half of the film it does hold your attention, and technically it is done well.

BUT... in retrospect, without giving anything away, as clever as the filmmakers are trying to be, you realize that fully about half of the movie is pure repetition, but NOT in a particularly cool way, not when you truly analyze it. YES, there are a few sharp 'Moments' in the movie that are pretty good, but quite honestly it simply does not make up for the whole rest of it.

I don't want to spoil it, so I'm not going to go into detail. But, pretty much what you have here is taking the truly cool element of say 'PRIMER', just that one sliver of a good idea, but honestly doing nothing particularly clever with it. Even some of the themes, such as they are, that are running through the film, such as Fate and Choice, still, again I can't say it enough, they just simply do NOT develop them or do anything else very effectively with the rest of the story.

The ending after wading through the entire movie is pretty good, the last 5 minutes or so are okay. But, when you look back over the movie you see that no matter how slickly or stylishly or even technically they try to execute the story, there just really is no actual substance there. I mean, it's a fair way to pass the time, I guess. And, the acting is very good, especially the guy playing Ray. And, the technical elements are done well, but the basic premise and what they do with it in my lowly and wretched opinion is completely wasted.

Normally, I don't go out of my way to give movies a negative review, but since I feel specifically that if a person truly has any brains at all and really likes this 'Type' of film, I feel that there is a good chance that you are going to be disappointed by the result.

At the time I watched this the average score is 5.4, but this can happen when there are so few reviews. I'm sure this will rise when more people who've actually seen the movie give it a score. The movie is interesting all the way through, and gradually cranks up the complication as the story develops. Good fun to try and anticipate how it will play out.

Such topic is always interesting but this one is little copycat from what many have filmed before. The incidence happened bit not Wow feeling, storyline is a problem.

Started interesting despite the low budget and amateur acting, it however failed to keep my interested, it went a bit overly complicated. Overall not good.