Shifter

This movie just jumped around too much, and I don't know why they thought it necessary for the character to throw up so.

This film seems to be getting some fairly brutal reviews, but I think it might be because this is an especially difficult film to review as and entire package because there are so many conflicting layers to it. Conceptually, you have an incredibly unique and inventive cautionary tale about time manipulation, but the narrative is repeatedly dragged down by too many bland, poorly conceived, and unrealistic characters, given to actors who can't make the poor dialogue and awkward scenes work very well. Then you have really solid visual and sound editing, with some very passable ultra low-budget special effects to keep the story going. Despite all the failings of this film, it's important to consider the budget they had to work with, and time of production; which was seemingly none in both cases.

For fans of unique scifi, especially inventive takes on time travel, I highly recommend giving this film a shot for it's overall concepts and production, but keep your expectations on performances and dialogue especially low to make your trudge through the film much easier.

As a fan of indie film I'll watch anything, But then you get burned like this. Good premise, but bad acting, bad directing and miserable writing. The director has an eye for cinematography but he can't direct an actor or tell an enjoyable story. Bad writing is the worst culprit. I watched the whole thing as a fan of the time travel genre, I didn't even get a descent paradox, just silly reasoning and lazy writing to get us to the special effects scenes. Also worst time machine ever

Imagine being a writer/producer with a warped vision of the world, i.e. men are bad. Then you create this cheaply made time-travel movie using a very odd-looking woman who works at an all-female warehouse and whose encounters are other odd women at the library but bad men at the bar. Either we have a woke opportunist as author/producer or this is really what he wanted to portray. Take a man's story and adapt for women because this is the time we live in right now.

The only reason I gave it a break=even score is because it has some gripping element. You will watch this without twitching for your phone or wondering what else is going on. I can stipulate how important it is to hook the viewer and keep them watching. This is why I ended my Netflix subscription. I started getting bored and they become to feminist woke.

Please watch "Source Code" after this. It will be like mouthwash for your brain.

...and it appears to be copied directly from 1982's "The Thing".

When it comes to sci fi movies, I don't need the cgi and special effects to keep me interested. Just give me a thought provoking story. I can even get past her time machine made out of an old oil drum and toaster parts.

Unfortunately, this one makes zero sense, has zero message, a flatline from start to finish.

Just odd looking people that can't act, a very large dose of misandry, and we watch the lead character throw up *thirty-one times*! What's more annoying than that is her "cute kitty" cartoon voice she does seven times.

Not even good enough for background noise while you multitask.