Paradox Lost

A time travel movie obsessed with improv. Reminded me of when I was deep into the Austin improv scene in my 20s. Very dreamlike.

The actors work hard in this sweet-natured film about time travel and time paradoxes. What I enjoy about titles like this is that they include inventive ideas that would never have made it into larger-budgeted productions - like the "cake test" for determining whether a time paradox has occurred. Don't worry so much about internal time travel logic - this film is more about human relationships.

Would have bumped it to 6.5, if that rating was available.

Extremely low budget, but inspired and entertaining. At times I felt reminded of Gaiman's Neverwhere, and there's also some part 12 Monkeys.

Writer / director Dennis Curlett also plays the protagonist's sidekick from the future, and in this role carries the movie. I can't wait to see more of his work.

I'm always a sucker for a good time travel movie, and this one does not disappoint, as long as you don't try to apply any kind of strict time travel rules on a movie that mostly wants to have fun AND explore the relationships between the characters. It is a really fun ride, true low budget gold, and I'm glad there wasn't 25 million dollars worth of CGI to mess it up and take the focus off of the story of the people. (I often find that low budget movies can be the most rewarding as long as you don't mind missing out on that CGI or 2 dozen exotic locales). The few brief scenes of improv sketch comedy kinda fall flat, but that's OK. The ending of the movie is just fantastic and I totally-- well, no, I'm just gonna leave that right there.

I watch everything. Mostly on Plex. Love when I find something like this. Weird and small and definitely low budget but also lots of imagination and cool. If low budget stuff isn't your thing then maybe not this one but I love stumbling onto weird stuff like this made with obvious passion. Reminded me of an even smaller Safety Not Guaranteed.