What a Movie!
Absolutely Hooked from the moment it started and Just Blown away by the ending.
I dont to talk spoilers but this was an incredible movie, smart script and has an incredible climax.
right up there with Predestination and Looper for me....
10/10
I wasn't excactly blown away but it was pretty good, especially for a Netflix movie. Definetely reminded me of Predestination, but that was better. 6,5/10
sharecan you tell me you didnt like about it?
My Only complaint is, I believe there may in fact have been A even better movie to be made....
I feel Had A truly great director like Nolan, Fincher or Scorsese directed and Had a Major star like Leonardo DiCaprio or Bradley Cooper been the lead....I think this could have turned out to be an all timer....
all the I must admit I was actually pretty impressed with Boyd Holbrook, I thought he did a very good job...
The point is though I felt the story, plot and script were Good Enough, That Had This movie been made With a Larger budget with A List talent, I think This might have turned out an all time great movie....
"My Only complaint is, I believe there may in fact have been A even better movie to be made...."
That pretty much sums it up. Maybe a better director could have done better or the script needed some polishing. But I really liked Jim Mickle's previous movie Cold In July, this fell short compared to that.
This was kind of all over the place, I liked the violent beginning, it seemed like it was almost going to be a horror movie. I don't know, it was good but it never really reached it's full potential.
The cast was good. I've been a fan of Boyd Holbrook since I saw him in Narcos. He was fine here too.
You said you liked Predestination right?
I love that movie, I feel its criminally under rated.
Have you ever seen a movie called Ticking Clock?
Its quite similar to In The Shadow Of The Moon or at least has a similar concept, trying to catch a time traveling serial killer....Its a B-List List type movie, IMO Not on the level of Predestination or In The Shadow Of The Moon, But still pretty good and worth checking out if you havent seen it
I love Predestination too. The whole time travel thing was so well thought out in that.
I haven't seen Ticking Clock but it does seem kinda interesting. I'll check it out if I find it streaming somewhere.
Have you seen Jim Mickel's other movies besides In the Shadow Of the Moon? If not, you should really check them out since you liked this. Especially Cold In July and Stakeland.
THis is a good movie, decent enough to watch, not sure "blown away," but I did love the ending.
shareQuite enjoyed it myself. One niggle though: the move relies on a massive temporal paradox (most of these time travel movies do). Because its a causal loop changing the future changes the past and vice versa (i.e. since it's a loop the past can change a future that's already been experienced, and an individual's future can be the past relative to everyone else). By preventing the catastrophic events that lead to Rya going to the past, Rya would then never go to the past. So why does she ever show up at all? If she doesn't go to the past the war happens. Then she goes to the past, prevents the war. Then she doesn't go to the past and devastation ensues. It's paradoxical, requiring some sci-fi vudu magic physics to explain. It's also a perpetual, never-ending loop of two alternating timeline segments.
To accommodate this we have to invent a mutable timeline concept unique to time travel movies where there's only one universe (no multiverse--I won't get into the weeds as to why that is here), but where timelines can fracture off for short segments when a time loop is created (i.e. there's only two or more parallel timeline segments as a result of altering events in the relative past or future that cause a change that impacts the very reason the loop exists to begin with). If we pretend that's how physics works within a science fiction context, we can accept it. Off the top of my head, only Predestination (where a bootstrap paradox, something predicted and allowable by known physics) occurs, 12 Monkeys, Time Lapse and Primer truly get it right. Most flicks based on time travel don't.
Still a very interesting movie. I'd give it a 6.5. As a side note, i disagree that there's a message here (or in most movies, for that matter) like some are saying. The movie doesn't take sides. It just shows events that unfolded and their eventual outcome.
WarriorPoet -- You summed up exactly what I tell everyone each time a time travel film happens. They still don't see it. It's truly frustrating as they don't get it. The only film I have no issue with (granted I've not seen all time travel films) is "Twelve Monkeys" -- it's brilliant, and in my opinion, is plausible. I've not seen the films you cite but I'm quite interested to see them now.
shareMariannIAm, indeed, and it's nice to hear from someone else who grasps why this is problematic, or at least why some major fictional physics gymnastics are required to make most time travel movies work. Even Edge Of Tomorrow, which I absolutely loved, requires special movie time travel physics (although honestly I always enjoy making up my own explanations and physics for such movies and posting long-winded theories about them).
If you ever check out the other movies I cited, Predestination is the perfect example of a bootstrap paradox, and is based on All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein. I found it to be a moderately entertaining as a film, but it does a pretty good job of representing "real-world" time travel based on known physics. TimeCrimes is another film (Spanish language) that's pretty interesting and does fairly decent with the time travel.
But you're right about how clean 12 Monkeys' time travel element is. It's perfectly presented, and in my view the best example of a very well thought out time travel story.
Not truly a time travel movie (yes there's time loops, but it's more a supernatural thriller akin to Jacob's Ladder) is Triangle with Melissa George, written and directed by Christopher Smith. If paying attention there's so many layers in this film it'll take multiple viewings and discussions to catch them. It does NOT follow logical time travel concepts, but goes in a direction most time travel movies don't, and I personally find it a fascinating film. Don't expect a time travel movie though. Not sure why I even mentioned it, actually (other than it consists of overlapping 3-in-1 time-loops that I spent wayyyy too much time puzzling out, documenting and charting) :)
Predestination is another one.
And beautifully made.
The ending and justification of it seems pretty evil to me but like IT, the original and remake, the earlier scenes were the best, the ones set in the 80s and 90s, the latter decades not so much. Also why did they make the actor gain weight in earlier scenes when he was younger?
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Wow.. now I know for sure that I'm not going to bother watching it..
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next time you decide to be a dick, do some research first....
Both Predestination and Looper are universally praised films that are loved by the overwhelmingly majority...
simply put, The only reason to make the childish comment "Wow.. now I know for sure that I'm not going to bother watching it.."...is to suggest My opinions on Looper and Predestination are Bad....
and as I said, You probably should have done some research first, as BOTH Looper and Predestination are Universally praised and Loved...
So, your comment truly makes absolutely no sense, and Instead of suggesting I have bad taste like you originall intended, Your comment can only fall back on YOU....Because If you disliked Looper and Predestination enough to make a comment like the one you made here, Its seem YOU saw something the Overwhelmingly majority did NOT...
Its fine If you dislike Looper or Predestination, But theres no getting around your opinion would fall into an extremely small minority....You are the one with the odd opinion here...
so back to my original statement, you saying " Wow.. now I know for sure that I'm not going to bother watching it..
truly doesnt make sense on any level, Because Its a statement based on pure DELUSIONAL....
for your statement to make any sense whatsoever, I would have needed to list 2 AWFUL movies that have a universal consensus as being awful and Then state they were great and compare In the shadow of the moon to those films.
instead, I listed 2 Universally praised films, that are loved by the overwhelming majority and Then Compared In the shadow of the moon to these great films.....and You DELUSIONALLY made a statement/insult to me like my opinions on these films were ODD...
sorry but you have the ODD opinion not me, I happen to think BOTH Looper and Predestination are great, The overwhelming majority agree with me....
If you want to delusionally rule out watching In the shadow of the moon because I compared it to 2 other Universally praised films, Thats your right but just know it dosnt make sense on any level....
This is an all time epic fail here!
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Yes me too. I know it's compared a lot to Predestination but I liked this one way more. I wasn't too sure what to expect, only knew it was about catching a killer. I'm glad I decided to watch it! The characters were all relatable in some way or another and well played. All the while I was watching it, I was hoping the end wouldn't ruin this great movie. It didn't! One of the best movies I've watched for a while. I'm giving it 8/10, which is excellent (I'm pretty severe in my ratings).
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