Dimensions

19 August 2016. This English production offers up a period drama with a science fiction theme as background. As such, this movie is not a thriller or adventure or action movie. In a similar way that Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) or Some Where in Time (1980) involved time travel but focused more on the journey than the travel through time, Dimensions is more a romantic drama with a sense of emotional mission, purpose, and even loss. It has the period trapping found in the English production of The First Men in the Moon (1964) or American production of The Time Machine (1980). Yet it is probably best reflective of Australia's Peter Weller's period piece Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) which contained the same quality set design and costumes and the same quality photography and setting experience. While it doesn't quite have the sustained air of mystery as Picnic at Hanging Rock, there is a both rather poignant romantic climax as well as a more defined resolution.

I'm usually a sucker for science fiction, and time travel in particular, but this movie was underwhelming. The characters are severely under-developed and uninteresting. One of the main characters is so empty that at one point the protagonist suggests that she might not be real, and she has no response.

The time-travel elements of the movie are similarly devoid of interest, and the supposed plot is elementary. I think most of the effort on this movie went into period sets, costumes and haircuts. It certainly doesn't show up in the writing, acting, or directing.

It's a Time Travel Story. And it's listed as Science Fiction, thereby.

But Be Advised: It's NOT 'The Time Machine'. Nor is it your standard Hollywood Special Effects wagon-train.

No Splashy special Effects. No Journeys to the end of Time. No Monsters. No Weird Paradoxes. No Dinosaurs either.

It DOES has an element of Time Travel...but that's all. The rest of the Movie is a distillation of a very nice work of emotional Fiction. It's a Love story about Three Childhood friends in 1920's era England. Once you settle into the measured, dialogue driven pace of the story. I found it elegant, touching and memorable.

Totally Girlfriend Friendly, BTW.

First things first! Do not take the negative reviews of this movie and dodge watching this!! Unless you are a close minded fool who can't use an imagination this movie is great. If you cannot open up to sci-fi fantasies such as this do yourself a favor and quit watching sci-fi.

With that said...

This movie is an excellent thought provoking film that really gets the gears turning. It does a great job of putting theoretical time travel into perspective while doing so in a way that isn't too geeky or brain melting.

It was actually better than I had expected and deserves a better score than it got. Don't expect lots of action scenes or crazy super futuristic technology that blows your mind but rather philosophical theories of time and space and the personal implications that they have on relationships.

This movie is definitely not one where you can anticipate whats coming next and has a few twists that keep it very interesting.

Overall an amazing film that should have received much more attention that it got. Being an avid movie lover that has blazed through netflix and other movie services I was surprised to have not seen or even heard of this one until fall 2014.

Displayed as Dimensions (2014) Really Dimensions (2011) AKA Dimensions: A-Line, a Loop, a Tangle of Threads

Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Born: August 1985 in London, England, UK

I accidentally stumbled onto this critter. It is one of the most fun-sounding least plausible stories.

Cambridge, England, 1921 Three young friends frolic around the countryside. Even at this early age attachments and rivalries are created. Whoops, someone threw a jump rope into the well which sets off a series of events in these lives and friendships.

Years later Stephen and Conrad each blame themselves for not retrieving the jump rope which inadvertently causes the demise of their friend Jane.

Stephen, the son of the scientist, is inspired to create a Time Machine and as his main target intends to correct the past.

Will he succeed?

Or will he mess up time for the rest of us?

Or is this whole Time Machine a concept of his mind?

This is one of those movies that you cannot fast-forward through as the description of how time works, which is displayed in the introductory credits, and elaborated throughout the story is that time is a series of dimensions running parallel with every decision. Or at least he is 99% sure. Therefore, if one goes back into time and changes it, they create a new timestream and not change the stream that they were in originally.

Following the timeline or parallel universe theory will help make the story and even the ending quite clear. There are no loose ends. The original appearance of the professor (Patrick Godfrey) and the subsequent appearance of the professor even though similar are two different timelines.

Do not waste your time with plausibility. Do spend your time with the intertwining love stories and relationships. Why was he compelled to leave the one he now loves Annie (Olivia Llewellyn) to travel back and make a correction that he cannot be a part of?