Curvature

It was great to see a time travel movie with no idiotic special effects or implausible parallel universes. If we spend our time regretting the past and worrying about the future we can forget the paramount significance of now, the only time in which anything can be achieved. Fonseca is a brilliant actress and her character was consistent and convincing.

Being into time travel movies I decided to give this one a go despite the number of bad reviews here. I was not disappointed. Yes, it's a low budget movie, there are no fantastic special effects and some of the acting is below par - but once the story grabs you it doesn't let go til the end credits roll. Not the best film I have seen this year but interesting enough to make me want to watch it to the end. And despite what other reviewers have said, the ending does make sense but only if you use your brain.

It's an exciting mystery where there's always something we don't know. At the end, I'm not even sure we got all the answers.

There is one scene that is too long and too depressing, complete with terrible new age music. I was worried the whole movie would be like this because I didn't bother to read the summary.

But then things change drastically, and for the better. First there is more new age music with what I would describe as footage from those science movies we watched in school.

Helen is on the run, and the movie just got more fun. The new age music has changed to what was probably called "space music" in the 60s.

During an exciting car chase, someone got really creative with camera work when a vehicle rolled over. But it's like that Schwarznegger movie where he somehow ended up in the real world and discovered pain for the first time. The characters don't seem to feel pain or get hurt.

Speaking of Schwarznegger, one of his best-known co-stars, Linda Hamilton, plays a college professor. Yes, Helen's a science and math nerd. Too pretty to be one, but when she and Alex start doing complicated math puzzles she gets so excited. Lyndsy Fonseca gives a good performance, going from depressed to frightened to excited. And she shows a lot of determination.

There are serious moral questions. Someone wants revenge and we have an explosion, but I'm not sure why.

There are flashbacks and scenes involving science experiments that I didn't quite understand.

Other than her, I don't know that there's anything special with the acting.

Is it family friendly? As usual for movies like this, the sound goes out and a character's mouth is blurry in many cases. Other than that, I don't know that there's anything to be too concerned about.

I would compare this to a TV-movie or an episode of a TV series, but it's entertaining enough.

While grieving the death of her husband Wells (Noah Bean), who committed suicide, Helen (Lyndsy Fonseca) meets his partner Tomas (Glenn Morshower) that asks her blessing to proceed running their company. Helen returns to her work and out of the blue, she has a blackout for several days. She wakes up at home and receives a phone call from herself warning that a man is coming in a BMW to kill her. She flees and goes to the house of her friend Alex (Zach Avery) to ask for help. They head to an isolated cabin that belonged to Helen´s father and soon Helen learns that she had sent herself to the past using a time machine invented by Wells to stop herself from committing a murder.

"Curvature" is a low-budget sci-fi film with a promising premise, reasonable development and a senseless commercial conclusion. The screenplay is intriguing but could have been better written since there are scenes absolutely ridiculous that should have been improved. Helen overturns Alex´s truck on the road and nobody comes to see or help. Helen, Alex and Kravitz fight in a hotel room and nobody comes to investigate what is happening. The cameo of Linda Hamilton is deceptive for her fans. The senseless conclusion with Helen receiving a correspondence with a flash memory is terrible. But in general the film is not bad and works on the video. My vote is six.

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A lot of questions not really answered well, but the movie is ok. But I gotta comment on this since I am a watch guy. That watch she puts in the drawer at the end is an automatic self winding watch which means it's a mechanical watch, not a quartz watch, soooooo what's with the ticking hand? The second hand should be sweeping and their shouldn't be a tick. This detail really annoys me. Because the watch face literally says auto-self winding. So why did you know that and go out of the way to make it tick? Wouldn't you just get another watch or at least take the auto-self winding label off in post production? I may sound like I am nit picking but it's this lack of attention to obvious details that ruins this movie. This is just a glaring example.