Excursion

If anyone is reading this and can go back in time, please stop me from watching this. Tell me the acting is stiff, their delivery of the poorly written script is weak, and I won't get back the time I spent watching this movie ever again. I kept sitting here thinking "...it's got a 7.4 on IMDB its got to get better...". Well it doesn't. Save yourself if you can't save me...

Would you recognise your younger self from 30 years ago? Yes, exactly, you would. It took me a bit longer to recognise this as dull and disappointing.

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.

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.