Review by refuserefuse

Give credit for trying to do something different with a time loop plot and clearly having a hamstringed budget. These could have been, and almost were, a strength. One can think of a myriad of ways to make something interesting with this taking this films failings as inspiration. Instead I've rarely seen anyone make anything so tedious and frustrating.

In effect it becomes the opposite of a time loop movie. Instead of learning from the previous loop they seem determined not to learn. Instead of doing something different to do the same thing again even though they know better. All while leaving interesting avenues that don't make the characters into idiots unexplored.

This gets worse and worse. There is a clear solution but there is an obstacle. Then later when the obstacle is removed the solution is not tried. Then later when the solution is no longer certain to work it is suddenly remembered. And at least one of the people acting so stupidly is supposedly a genius. They could just win at several points, even by their own account of what they know and for no explained reason just don't.

This gets worse and worse until the most infuriating example of this is the final scene. This act of ineptitude is clearly to set it up for a sequel but given the trajectory I can only expect any future installment to fail harder.