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I did not plan to write review of this movie, but seeing about 10 1-ns in row here (rated by usefulness or whatever), followed with rating 10 - made me to do it.

I think that there were some good ideas, scenes, dialogs in this movie, and acting was OK. The reason for hate is probably main character, actor playing it. Not some macho, charismatic one. I had more problems with actress playing Elise. Obviously more than 18 years, rather about 25. And was not impressed with her acting too. Although material was not impressive too.

Most likeable character was wife, especially in first hour.

Low budget, indeed. Despite some interstellar travels with speed near to light speed, cars on streets were like today cars. All it did not look as some even 'near' future with much more advanced technology.

Ending was little disappointment, and a bit rushed in my opinion.

There were some good points about political fights in elections, about depression.

Overall, pretty inconsistent.

The acting, the writing and the directing are very adequate; nothing more than that was necessary to set this film in a middle-of-the-road category. Acceptable, not outstanding.

I find the film slow: with the exception of the hostile TV interview, the scenes which constitute the plot were not intense enough to maintain my interest. (Can't totally blame the writers: the situation in itself is static: "she went away and she returned at the same age. This is all there is, what we do now?") There is too much Hallmark and not enough time travel.

Some viewers find repulsive (creepy) the idea of a couple with 20 years of age gap. Fine to them, but not for me. For the last 18 years I've been married to a woman 30 years my junior. We have two children and we are reasonably happy. Either way, the age factor should not weight on the consideration of the merits of the film, which does not take a position on age-different couples. It is just the situation as it is.

All in all, the movie is just OK, and very little is gained by watching it.

What drew me to the film was Brianna Hildebrand, having had conflicting opinions on her from her previous works and looking for a bit of a tie-breaker. What compelled me to write a review, though, was seeing the sharp split in the few reviews offered for the film. It looks like the divide is between people that watched it, and people that are trying to sell it, which is always a hoot.

I'm one of the ones that watched it. Regrettably.

The movie trailer tells you nearly everything you need to know about this story. Slapshod science being used solely to create a scenario where a middle-aged, floundering man has an excuse to get romantically involved with a teenaged girl. It genuinely never got deeper than that, and no matter the romantic music put on top of the scenes, it also never got less creepy than that premise suggests.

There was an element of predictability in the way the story unfolded that was tedious and cringey in turns. Scenes went on way too long. The dialogue felt awkward and forced. The audio balancing was amateurish. Watching the film was something I endured out of curiosity, and seeing other reviews describe this film as a 'comedy'... I think we watched different movies. I can't recall a single time I laughed. It's not framed as a comedy at all.

I'd recommend giving this movie a pass. It had nothing memorable to offer, all set to the tune of an incredibly inappropriate, groomer-y 'romance'. Bleh.

You know how they reuse the same story line over and over again. The super spy who can beat up 15 armed men with nothing but a pool noodle. The RomCom where they accidentally meet, some sparks fly, then a disagreement separates them but in the end they get back together? There are so many storylines that are so played.

This is original. Two teenagers fall in love. Then one goes on a intergalactic voyage. She comes back and everyone has aged 20 years but she hasn't aged a day. Then she finds her old flame, now close to 40, and they rekindle their romance.

Ok, it's pretty stupid. I agree. Bring back the guy with the pool noodle. One star for originality. Six stars for Brianna Hildebrand. She is a talented actress, and I'm looking forward to seeing her work for many years to come.

My first advice... Ignore the 1/10 & 10/10 ratings... See it for yourself.

To the story. I liked it. I do not understand the bad reviews. This never deserves a 1/10 and I agree, also not a 10/10, but my 6 ot 7/10 is real. At least for me. See the story of love is one thing. But another, the story of life, and decision making, choosing your personal path in life. This is a story everyone could tell. Most people make decisions, that in their minds, they have to rigidly cling to, and because of whatever fear, they close their hearts and make all wishes and dreams go away... Lifelong... Jack resembles this pattern behaviour in all of us... But the story is also the story of finding ones authentic self. Doesn't matter how long it takes, or how hard it is. It is worth finding ourselves... Finding out, what we realy want. Jack did it. And you?

I believe that all people who ranked this movie as 1 urgently need a shrink. You can only see evil if there is evil within you.

I was shocked by the amount of unhelpful comments about the film. The year 2022 surprised by the number of bad and boring movies that were released. Basically more of the same over and over again.

The Time Capsule is a good surprise. I didn't have high expectations, but I decided to take a chance, especially after seeing the amount of haters.

The film has good performances, a creative story and takes a different look at how love can withstand time. Brianna is very cute and deserves praise for her performance. It's important to remember that this movie doesn't have an unlimited budget, but I'm sure you'll like it.

The premise (middle-aged man has a 'sci-fi' reason to get in a relationship with a teenager) was gross. The movie was incredibly predictable, charmless, and forgettable.

If you want a sci-fi movie, there's so many better ones out there. The only sci-fi aspect to this was in creating a flimsy excuse for the creepy relationship to happen. It wasn't explored at all beyond that. If you want a romance, this is such an uncomfortable choice. A 'maybe Lolita would be more your speed' kind of choice. And if you want a comedy, just... watch anything else. This movie was painfully flat and took itself seriously, which was pretentious at best, given how little substance there was.

It's a waste of time.

This reminds me very much of the The Lake House(2006) which is a wonderful romantic drama with lots of twists and turns. It left me in the same mood as that film so I'll certainly watch it again.

If you are on the fence about watching this then pay no attention to many of the reasonably sounding negative reviews as they don't reflect reality. Its hard to imagine those reviewers actually watched all the way through.

Firstly it has a wonderful script, with plenty of drama, and no plot holes for me. At times I wasn't sure who was in love with who as there are at least three possibles, perhaps more, but I'll not spoil things.

The cast are all new to me and everyone seemed so realistic in their roles. Its hard to pick anyone out as the casting worked so well. Again they all seemed real and everyone different.

For me its 9 out of 10, as for some reason it seemed a bit short although at 1h 45m it is longer than The Lake House. I'm so glad I ignored those early negative reviews.

I'm a sucker for any "time" related sci-fy, so the plot got hocked, it's 1 am so why not? A 17yo girl goes on a space flight leaving her 18yo boyfriend behind. These flights are not supposed to come back to Earth but hers does a few months later. Even though her time was only a few months, 20 years had passed in Earth due to Time Dilation given by Special Relativity. She's now 18yo while the ex-boyfriend is a married 38yo, creepy.

The movie was kinda of cute until their "drunken" scene by the lake; I would've edited it out and just have him explain why it can't workout. I'm GenX, can't imagine having a relationship with a millennial; just the political views would likely be vastly different. Still the movie was OK and maybe worth ~6.2 instead of 5.3.

Now the technical problem. The girl went out for the space trip for just a few months yet 20 years went by in Earth. The space ship had to travel at about 99.97% the speed of light for these #'s to work out. This speed is highly unlikely in the near future.

NOTE: This is my second time posting this review. I first submitted a review on 6/14/2022 but it was mysteriously taken down without any notification. Read into that what you will! Also, since I have a second chance to add some thoughts here, I would also like to add that the audio and sound mixing in this movie are at times very bad.

Here is my original review:

I watched this movie because of the, shall we say, "interesting" premise and the rising star power of Brianna Hildebrand. I wondered how such an inherently creepy premise (a middle-aged man rekindling his high school romance with a girl who is still physically and mentally 18 via time dilation) could be executed without being an uncomfortable and disturbing experience for actors, characters, and audience alike. Well, the answer is it can't! This movie is just as creepy as one might expect after reading the synopsis. It seeks to legitimize the relationship through various means but these attempts never come across as more than window dressing to disguise and justify a man's inappropriate attraction to a girl TWENTY years younger than him. My advice to potential viewers is to give this one a miss. And my advice to Brianna is to seek better projects to advance her career!

Aside from being incredibly boring, with shallow characters and slow pacing, the movie's premise was the stuff of middle-aged men's creepy fantasies. Time travel being used just so a guy in his 40s can get involved with a teenager? Gross. Gross, uninteresting, and unpleasant to watch.

Nothing sensational or oscar winning but interesting and will pass an hour or so comfortably. Give it a go. The negative reviews here need to relax a bit! The premise is a classic what if in science fiction but I cannot recall the diea of a person returning to Earth after years in space being unaged as a film plot. The idea poses many issues for the naturally aged family and others the space traveller comes back to see. Steadily paced, relying on the dialogue to create the issues and concerns and to show the testing of relationships. Perhaps, a bigger budget , star status actors and top director would have demanded more but the idea is there and they have put it up to be quietly enjoyed.

Aside from the premise being... bad. Just. Objectively bad. Aside from that, though, the movie was painfully boring. It's pitched as sci-fi while having barely any sci-fi elements. It's pitched as romantic or comedic while the comedy is absent entirely and the romance only expressed in a deeply inappropriate relationship.

It's just a painfully slow predictable drag of our creepy main character trying to find self-worth by using a teenaged girl. It's not a novel concept and definitely not one worth indulging, no matter how 'cool' and 'original' the creators are desperately trying to sell the framework as being. Skip this movie. It isn't worth your time.

Compelling performance by this young actress. I totally believed she was lost in this place of being treated like a kid by those who knew her before and not fitting in with the young people she was meeting now. So it made sense to me that she would want to connect with her former boyfriend even though he now "looks old".

Such an interesting concept and I liked how the filmmaker handled the ending. Very unique!!

What on earth was the point of this movie?? I've seen some positive reviews talking about how our main character is nostalgic, and conflicted, and relatable, and I'm just sitting here thinking: did we watch the same movie.

And if our main character is relatable.... maybe have a seat right over there.

Wow.

The tl;dr is space travel/time dilation is used to set up a premise for a middle-aged politician to try and rekindle a childhood romance with a girl who is literally still a child.

Oh wait, no, I recall the movie saying she'd "just turned 18", so that makes it... better???

Even if the ending avoided being as grim as the set-up allowed for, it's still deeply skeevy. This shouldn't have been made. It was slow-paced and uncomfortable. I guess if you're into middle aged men going after teenagers, this could be fun to watch. 'Oh but he was just trying to rekindle the emotional place of his youth' okay cool but he's doing it by kissing a teenager romantically. 'Oh but she came on to him first' do you hear yourself. Literally do you hear yourself.

This was a bad movie.

I regret the time I spent watching this movie. The premise was pretty disgusting, but that aside, you're still left with the fundamental problems that the delivery was mediocre and the pacing was painful.

There are crumbs of ideas here, but those ideas were either insufficiently fleshed out, or entirely not worth fleshing out. To its merit, it was competently shot and the actors were certainly trying, but with the lead being a charisma-void and the script being... that. There's a limit to what competent acting can do.

Watched it with a group and if not for the social element and the alcohol, I really don't think I'd've bothered finishing the movie. It has no charm at all.

Bad writing, worse acting, just skip it and save yourself some pain.

We gave it a try, and both my wife and i agreed to give it up about a half hour in.

The characters have no charm to them, no likeability, and the writing is cheesy at best. Poorly filmed, poorly acted, just skip it.

The idea could have been good, but their apparently very limited budget did not allow any reasonable fleshing out of the story.

Good try, next time get some actors that can help you feel something for them, and some writers that can help the actors do their job better.

Come to think of it, I'm going to rewrite this entire movie and submit it to the studios. I'm sure mine will be better.

This might have been a good idea, but the slow-paced script and unlikable characters (maybe too harsh - they're really CHARACTERS you just cannot care about at all) make this a MOVIE you can't care about at all.

We kept waiting for the story to move forward and it completely spins into a morass of self-indulgent baloney!

Rather than an interesting space or time-travel idea as suggested by the title, the story is one more boring "mid-life crisis": aging married guy trying to relive his "glory days" (which appear to have been just the usual immature high school/college party behavior - "big whoop") and you don't care about any of the people who will be affected by his "decisions." Maybe he should have done what most men do: buy an expensive sports car, get a tattoo, and take up body-building! Instead, he puts on "man jeans" and returns to the family lake house from his high school days with "professional wife" in tow for "high drama" rather than hijinx.

Too bad they didn't have the money to really explore an interesting space travel plot-line (rather than alluding to space travel with just a shot of a line of people climbing a ladder - probably in a Shopping Mall basement!?!) Actors did their best, but you just don't care about any of the characters or any of their "life choices" or their "angst" ! Big YAWN.

There's some weird brigading going on in the reviews but here's my review from someone who watched it as a work of art rather than as a means to unrelated political statements. The movie tells the story of a politician who just lost a huge election and wonders what will make him happy. Here's where the sci fi premise comes in. His high school girlfriend just returned to earth after a failed attempt at colonizing another planet. Due to time dilation (a real, measurable phenomenon) she has barely aged while 20 years has gone by for Jack, the politician.

This is not some creepy movie where Jack is physically attracted to Elise, his ex girlfriend, and decides he wants to leave his wife. Elise reminds him of a time when he was idealistic and passionate. These are traits he had when he entered politics but it's implied our political system has sapped the joy and enthusiasm out of his career. His wife wants him to continue but even before Elise shows up it's clear Jack is having a change of heart about his career, and by extension, his relationship with his very career minded wife.

I won't spoil the ending but suffice to say Jack DOES NOT end up with 20 year old Elise. It seems, to me at least if not someone who seems to have written at least 10 reviews by him/herself, that the status of their friendship is left up in the air at the end of the movie. It's up to the audience to wonder what they will or, maybe, should do?

I enjoyed it and I thought the age gap was handled with a lot of grace and care. The leads are all outstanding and while the movie is clearly on the lower side budget wise, the production values and cinematography appear to me to be excellent. My girlfriend cried at the end. I didn't but I never cry. We both agreed on what should happen but I won't spoil that. High recommended.

Terrific concept: a girl and her father come back from a 20 year trip on a colony ship - they've been near light speed and in hibernation so for them only like a week has passed) but I think they ruined the story.

Bafflingly, it's told from the POV of a guy who dated her in high school. So she *talks* about what it's like to feel so out of place when she should be living it on screen. He's had 20 years of life by now - he's a politician at a potentially pivotal career moment.

But the problem is... We're watching the wrong movie! The real story is being told to this guy, and being lived mostly offscreen, by the girl and her father.

For her, high school was last week. All of her friends have suddenly (from her perspective) gotten 20 years older, married, have careers, moved away, etc.

The girl's dad is played as kind of a jerk - but he's dealing with his own set of problems: When you fast-forward 20 years when you're in your 40s, it can be pretty devastating. Your friends get old, retire, die, etc. Add to it that something to do with botched hibernation or something has made him quite ill (I spent much of the film wondering if or when he was going to die).

But we just hear about all of this in conversations with the main character. We get his stupid, boring life first hand - his marriage, his political career, etc., while he learns how much he's changed as a person and questions if he's made the right choices... which is a pretty cliche story right out of the gate. We've seen this story before, and it doesn't require the timey wimey shenanigans to tell it.

The girl is played by Brianna Hildebrand - who plays Negasonic Teenage Warhead in the Deadpool movies. She's *spectacular* in this - she easily could have carried the film but she's reduced to a supporting role because they're telling the wrong story. (And also being weird because there's the constant will they / won't they of the nearly 40 year old guy and his 18 year old girlfriend)

I paused it a few times just to fume to myself over the wasted opportunity. Save yourself the trouble and watch anything else with Hildebrand in it.