Time Trap

Let me first disclose that this is my first review I have ever written on here. I made an account SPECIFICALLY just to review this movie because of how infuriated the characters made me while watching. Throughout the whole movie you'll constantly be asking yourself "why would they do that" or "why didnt you just do this". The most infuriating part was watching a group of the main characters standing over a dying man screaming that he's dying and what he's dying from, but then helplessly do nothing. "We have to save him!" one of them shouts as they do literally nothing, and then watch him helpessly struggle from another threat. Both of which they could have helped easily. It could have otherwise been a fantastic film if the writing for some of the characters wasn't so poor. Seriously, everything else was great. The ending could have been a bit better, as I feel like it could have answered a few more questions and been a little less mysterious.

The basic story is an Archaeologist going out to look for the old van from the 1970s, his parents were Hippies of sorts and disappeared all those years ago. He has some fresh ideas and knows there was a search for a fountain of youth in a cave. It is set and filmed in Texas, west of San Antonio, using the Sonora Caverns as the location for most of the filming.

When he does not return a couple of students of his and a couple of additional young friends set out to find him. That is when the action really starts. The first strange thing is when one of them exits the cave after only a few minutes, and looks up the jeep, the battery is dead and it is covered in old growth vines. That is the hint, somehow in the cave time slows way down. The cave is a "time trap."

All that spawns a number of other issues and builds to pretty interesting and exciting final couple of scenes. All in all a very different kind of movie and also very entertaining.

My wife and I watched it at home on DVD from our public library.

I watched this on Netflix, and based on previous experiences with sci-fi and horror movies there, I swear I was expecting this to be terrible, but it turns out it was exactly my kind of film. The movie never loses tension, the characters are likable but sometimes pretty dumb, especially the male lead. I thought the concept was pretty original and very well executed.

I liked the movie. At first I was horrified by the dialogue. The acting is not that good, but I actually enjoyed the storyline.

Agree with some of the other reviewers that it's the writing and some of the acting that prevents this sci-fi thriller from being truly spectacular. However, the premise of the film is wildly fascinating and imaginative, I won't get into the details, as it's fun to discover what exactly is going on but once you know, you get totally sucked in until the end. If the writer and directors read these reviews, I'd love to see a sequel!!