Out of Time

It features people you've never heard of before and never will again giving cringeworthy performances that wouldn't put a village amateur dramatic society to shame. However, even though the writing is laughably bad and everyone appears to be reading their lines for the first time it is strangely watchable and more than a little likeable. It's amazing what you can create with $100, a camera and a few hours to spare.

It's not a completely original story; it starts out almost exactly like The Hidden (1987), only with three bad body-hopping aliens pursued by one time-traveler posing as an FBI agent, along with a reluctant local cop who has to be convinced these are aliens, instead of one bad body-hopping alien pursued by one good body-hopped alien posing as an FBI agent, also along with a reluctant local cop who has to be convinced, etc. (Also note that the FBI agent here is named "Cooper," which was Kyle MacLachlan's character's name in "Twin Peaks"; MacLachlan played the FBI agent in The Hidden.) Also, the idea of a time-traveling good-guy and/or cop from the past chasing one or more bad guys into the future was used in the movie Time After Time (1979), among others, and more recently in the TV series Continuum (2012-15), and probably a few others whose titles I can't remember.

That said, it's a good movie, considering the low budget. The supporting cast could be better, but the two main characters are well-acted enough. The special effects and dialogue are probably the biggest weaknesses, and there are plenty of cliches involved, but overall it's worth seeing, and maybe even fun in spots.

I'll dump a crap film at any point if I feel it's unwatchable. This was obviously a B low budg film, but really not too bad. Acting is OK, writing is OK, plot is OK (actually better than Avengers End Game). I actually liked it and that's saying something these days.

This is not a big budget sci-fi production and if you can get past the cheesy time travel effect at the movie's begining and hang on though some rough dialog until the two lead characters meet and begin interacting for a bit you might be pleasently surprised as well. Their relationship is the movie and it's not like you won't notice the rough edges, that's completely impossible, but at some point you will stop caring and just enjoy these two to a satisfying ending.

I saw the rating on IMDB, and decided to check this movie out. Acting was good, and the storyline intriguing. Kept my attention throughout.