Excursion

Interesting idea but not really worth the time.

I'm guessing low budget.

I just didn't care that much.

On the one hand, Excursion is highly original, but on the other, the acting and scripting of this film are mediocre. It's shot in an apartment in Shad Thames, and it has the unfortunate feel of a local drama group deciding to act out a novel script in someone's flat and basement. (Watch Hoshii Mamoru 'University of Laughs', if you want to see a master class in how a single setting film can work brilliantly, by the way). The acting settles down a bit half way through, but the former is needlessly snail paced even for the context. Some fans laud the interesting twist on time-travel and this is indeed a refreshing take that suitably steers clear of cheap and needless special effects. However, trying to follow the threads of the timeline and paradoxes will drive you 'loopy' and despite feeding into a clever catastrophic twist, it struggles to really make any clear sense of the tangled ball of time and events, unless as one of the protagonists says, that you pull on a thread and some of the knots sort themselves out. For me though, pulling on the threads just seems to tighten the knots of confusion.

The take on time travel is interesting, if a little convoluted, but the film is let down by the amateur acting and some poorly written dialogue (the actors' timing on delivering their lines gives it a 'student film' feel). That being said, there is potential in the script and production values which makes me think that the filmmakers, with access to better actors, are capable of producing higher quality material.

Sometimes it was super hard to hear the actors.

And the acting wasn't the best. It felt like they overexplained some small parts to make it more realistic, but it went the other way instead.

I'm sure that most people are aware of the grandfather paradox (especially the kind of people who watch this movie) and don't need the complicated examples, even though I liked this representation.

Otherwise, it was pretty interesting and I still have to digest two small parts of it, though I don't think it would be worth a rewatch.

I love time travel films. There has to be a worst one. This is it. Worse than Time Cop. The acting was the most wooden I can remember seeing from so many characters. The plot didn't make sense - somehow it's possible for characters to die yet wake up again in a different place and time. I have it two stars not one rather because at least they were trying to work on a concept. It's not worth your time though :op