The title says it all:
John Cleese Picks the Most Gut-Busting Monty Python Sketches
Who am I to say otherwise?
Good list, by the way. I’d like to have a similar list from the remaining members of the troupe.
Category Archives: Movies
Let’s see…what to talk about today…
Star Wars, again? While Rotten Tomatoes has the film scoring an incredible 97% positive, I’m getting the feeling The positives reviews I’ve read (and I won’t even pretend to have read more than a handful) have been somewhat half-hearted.
Which in some ways is not all that different from your typical reaction to the works of J. J. Abrams. I actually admire the man quite a bit: He knows how to create something that, while you’re watching it, is compelling and interesting. But after the fact, when you stop to think about what you’ve just seen, doubts form and secondary opinions pop up.
Will this happen for Star Wars VII? It happened, after all, with the “prequels”. There was plenty of good cheer and great critical ratings until the warm glow of nostalgia lifted and people got a better look at the product.
By the way, I’m as prone to changing my mind as the next person. I enjoyed Star Trek: Into Darkness when I caught it in the theaters but after thinking about it for a bit, realized the film was very flawed.
We’ll see what happens.
What else is there to talk about?
Politics?
Yesterday we had the 1,993,320,123,432th GOP debate and, like all the others, I dutifully avoided it as best I could. Of course afterwards all those news stations (why, WHY!?!) had their anchors/analysts go over who did what and to whom and, like some morbid all enveloping black hole I couldn’t help but be sucked in.
It appears, at least to my eyes and based on what little was highlighted, that I didn’t miss all that much. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I wouldn’t vote for this version of the Republican Party if my life depended on it (check this chilling article by William Saletan which posits this question: Who would you elect President if your only choices are Trump, Cruz, or Carson?). The latest debate -what little I saw of it- didn’t change my mind in that respect.
So forget Star Wars and forget Politics. How about…
Football?
Bob Costas Says Football’s Biggest Problem Can’t Be Fixed
I’ve gone down this road before a few times but, like the self-driving car articles I so dearly love, this is rapidly becoming an issue I’m also intrigued with.
I’ve written about this before so excuse me while I (briefly) repeat myself: When I was young, I had no interest in sports at all. Let me be clear: AT ALL.
I was forced to play games I didn’t care to play (usually soccer…why the hell couldn’t you use your hands?!?). TV was very limited back then and where I was there wasn’t a whole lot of sports aired on it.
Things changed back in/around 1984. I started watching -and admiring- football, specifically the incredible talents of one Dan Marino. He almost single handedly got me interested in football in general and the Dolphins specifically.
But I didn’t stop there and eventually became a full fledged sports fanatic. I not only watched football, but also basketball, baseball, and hockey. This all ended the year after I watched almost every single game of the 2003 World Series winning season the Marlins played. I realized I was extremely lucky to see a team go from game one to winning the series and the likelihood of repeating this was very slim.
I also realized I had wasted waaaay too much time before the TV seeing this.
So I cut back dramatically. In more recent times the most sports I’ve followed were probably the LeBron James Heat, but I only watched some of those games and more closely followed the playoffs.
Though it all, my favorite sport to watch remained football, in spite of the fact that since Marino retired the Dolphins haven’t done much of anything.
Having said that, I agree with Mr. Costa: Football is at heart a game that destroys not only the athlete’s body, but also, and more frighteningly, his mind. Yes, some people come out of the game better but at this point I feel that even those who most want football to prosper cannot with a straight face say that it is a “safe” sport to play.
True, basketball, baseball, and hockey wear down athletes’ bodies as well, but the fact is that these sports don’t feature what is the staple of football: Athletes running at full speed into each other.
It happens now and again in basketball. It happens now and again in baseball. It may happen a little more frequently in hockey.
But the reality is that every play in football involves athletes running into each other at top speeds. While a well-toned body may be able to absorb the hits, there is no training or helmet padding great enough to protect a person’s brain.
I’m not going to lie: I still love watching football. But as each new study on brain trauma resulting from playing in the sport is released and the reality of what playing the game does to the athletes’ bodies is understood, I don’t know how much longer it can exist.
Yet more Star Wars…
Last night was the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and I was curious to see how the exclusive crowds reacted to the premiere. It would appear they left mostly happy:
From CNN:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens gets positive early reactions
Over on twitter:
First reactions suggest “overwhelming experience”
The Guardian likewise reported the same.
So for all those looking forward to the film’s formal release tomorrow (it is being released on Wednesday, right?) looks like you’ll like what you’ll see.
Star Wars…nothing but Staaarr Waaarsss…
It’s just about here and we’re way beyond fever pitch. In a few short days, the latest Star Wars film is released and I…
…Well, I’ll pretty much ignore it.
Don’t get me wrong: If you love Star Wars and are rabid to see this latest film, then by all means do so (yeah, like you need my permission!).
And when you do, I sincerely hope you have an absolute blast. In this life, one needs to get their pleasures as they come and if Star Wars scratches that itch, then more power (and fun!) to you.
If you’re new to this blog and haven’t read some of my posts regarding the phenomena that is Star Wars, the above should clue you in on the fact that no, I’m not a fan of Star Wars.
I stumbled upon this article by Todd Leopold for CNN and it contains many of the same feelings I have regarding the movie, though Mr. Leopold goes one step too far in condemning the whole franchise:
Please, Stop Forcing Star Wars On Me
A couple of points regarding that article:
I think Mr. Leopold was acting like a big jerk way back when he yelled out Spoilers to the crowds waiting for the next showing of the just released The Empire Strikes Back. First, its just plain rude. Secondly, if he didn’t care for the franchise to begin with, why did he bother to go see the sequel?
Like Mr. Leopold, I was of the right age (I was 11, he 12) at the time of the original release of Star Wars and, like him, the film simply didn’t turn me on like it did so many others. However, unlike Mr. Leopold I was so unimpressed with Star Wars that I skipped The Empire Strikes Back when it was released to theaters and only saw it years afterwards when it aired on TV.
But, again: While Star Wars and the films that followed it didn’t particularly rock my boat, at this point in my life I don’t feel the need to berate people who do love this work. After all, there are things I love dearly that others wouldn’t (I’m looking at you, Supernova).
Having said all that, what does irk me about Star Wars fans and may explain -to some degree anyway- why the whole Star Wars thing never really appealed to me is explained beautifully in this very positive article by Forrest Wickman for Slate.com:
Star Wars is a Post-Modern Masterpiece
Let me be very clear here: the above article DOES NOT in any way/shape/form tear down the original 1977 Star Wars film and instead heaps praise on how the film was the ultimate pastiche, masterfully borrowing so many elements from so many different films (various westerns to Flash Gordon to The Hidden Fortress to The Dam Busters) to create its own experience.
Interestingly, this may be the very reason why I’ve been so (ahem) lukewarm to Star Wars. It’s because even as a young child seeing the film I recognized so many of these elements (the western influences, Flash Gordon, War films) and therefore couldn’t “see” the film as being an original work.
In some ways this reminds me of my equally muted feelings towards the Kill Bill movies. While technically these movies, like Star Wars, are very well done, they are as much a pastiche as Star Wars. With Kill Bill, director/writer Quentin Tarantino attempts to create a Kung Fu version of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and to my mind, why would I want to see a “homage” to that superb film when I can see the original?
So too it is with the original 1977 Star Wars. Why would I be interested in seeing this (admittedly well done) pastiche when I can watch the better, IMHO, works that it took from?
Again, this is just my subjective opinion and, again, I absolutely do not begrudge everyone’s desire to catch the latest Star Wars film (and films) when they are released to theaters.
While I may not have jumped aboard that particular cultural train, I recognize I’m among the very, very few.
The legality of posting spoilers…
As an author, if there is one thing I can appreciate is the desire to “surprise” your audience with your new work(s). You spend considerable time coming up with your story and massaging it until it is worth releasing and the very last thing you want is someone to post spoilery information about what you’ve done and render you work pointless.
Fortunately, as an author who works alone I am a self-contained unit. Whatever scenarios and stories I come up with reside in my head and, unless I get hacked, my computer. Until my latest work is officially released, no one other than I know what I’m up to. At this point, I’ve finished the second full draft of my latest novel and, apart from this one hint I offered a little while back, at least with regard to when the story takes place, you have no idea what awaits you.
Because creating a movie involves many, many people both in front of and behind the cameras, the possibility of leaks is a very real one.
A while back a very early draft of the script to Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie, The Hateful 8, was leaked to the internet and Mr. Tarantino, overcome with anger, stated he would abandon the film entirely. He eventually changed his mind and the film will be released this December, but I totally get where he’s coming from.
Again: When you create a story, you want viewers/readers/what-have-you coming into your story knowing the bare minimum. You want to surprise, shock, amuse, etc. them with what goes on. How can you do that if they already know what they’re in for?
Unfortunately, because of the internet and the ability to instantly “talk” to the world at large, spoilers are becoming a big problem in the movie industry. I recall when The Dark Knight Rises was in the process of being filmed and, when exterior shots were taken, people on the streets who happened to be close by produced videos of what was going on. On the very day scenes involving Batman fighting Bane or Catwoman riding around on a Bat-Cycle were shot, the world at large was able to see what was going on.
Let me repeat and emphasize this: The world got to see scenes from a movie many months away from being released, much less finished, the same day they were being filmed!!!
Which brings us to the latest bit of spoilery territory.
Perhaps the most anticipated film of December (maybe even of this year) is the latest Star Wars feature. Director J. J. Abrams and company have been extra careful in trying to keep the movie’s plot under wraps and, to my eyes, have been for the most part successful.
But spoilers come in all shapes and forms and someone at a Walmart in Iowa accidentally displayed for sale some Star Wars action figures tied to this film. These figures, including that of the female character Rey, had potentially spoilery information. A photograph of the toy was taken and released on the internet and…
Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Gets DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm
Yikes.
For those who don’t know, big stores like Walmart, Target, Costco, etc. etc. receive merchandise sometimes a week or two before its “official” release date. They hold this material and, on the date said merchandise is to be released, it is pulled out of their warehouse section and put up for sale.
As you can see from the article above, sometimes errors are made.
I’ve experienced the early release of materials before, though nothing quite as “exciting” as this.
A few years back (try to contain your excitement when you read this awe-inspiring story) I wandered into my local Costco and found the first BluRay release copy of the classic Bruce Lee film Enter The Dragon for sale. I wound up buying it and smiled while I did, knowing that the BluRay edition wasn’t scheduled to be released until the following week and someone at Costco had mistakenly put it on sale early.
I’ll give you a few minutes to catch your breath after reading such an earth shattering story.
All jokes aside, I can’t fault Disney/Lucasfilms for being upset that a potential spoiler has found its way into general release before the film. But neither can I fault those who posted pictures of the toy on the internet -they did legally buy the items, though it was mistakenly put on sale too early- nor the staff of the Walmart, who probably committed what was ultimately a very innocent mistake.
Just goes to show…there are many, many ways to spoil a story.
The Final Girls (2015) a (mildly) belated review
Can’t recall where I first heard about The Final Girls, a gentle tribute to and comedy related to the “slasher” films of the 1980’s -and more specifically Friday the 13th– but I was intrigued enough to put it on my Netflix que and yesterday finally got a chance to see it.
The Final Girls starts with our two main characters, Amanda Cartwright (Malin Akerman playing -and succeeding- in the most challenging roles in this film) angrily emerging from an audition and meeting up with her waiting daughter Max (Tarissa Farmiga) in their car.
Amanda, we find in short order, is a frustrated actress quite literally haunted/typecast by her most famous role, that of a camp counselor/victim in the “classic” Camp Bloodbath, a fictional 1980’s film which is very obviously is based on Friday the 13th. Though bitter and knowing that her most current audition went nowhere (“He said he’d keep me in mind”), Amanda clearly doesn’t want to bring her daughter down.
It is during the first few minutes of the film, where we see the dynamic between Mother and Daughter, that the film succeeds the most. In those very short scenes we discover that Max is very much a realist while Amanda is a free spirit who recognizes she’s made many mistakes in her life but clings to her one very bright success: Her daughter.
Which makes what happens next all the more heartbreaking (Mild spoilers, although the trailer pretty much gives this away and it does happen within the first five or so minutes of the film): Amanda wrecks the car and we’re rapidly transported to three years later. Amanda, we find, died in the car accident while Max survived.
Now living with her aunt, Max is a high schooler who still misses her mother greatly. When she learns there will be a theatrical presentation/tribute to the Camp Bloodbath films, she at first doesn’t want to go. The reasons are many and obvious: Seeing the movie means Max sees her beloved mother in the role that typecast and ultimately stunted her career. Further, she is a victim of the slasher killer…why would she want to see her mother die all over again?
Nonetheless, she is convinced to go to the film and, while with her friends, watches along. When the movie comes to the scene where her mother is about to be killed by the slasher, Max needs to leave the theater. However, just as she heads to the exit a fire breaks out and, with her friends in tow, they “escape” the theater through the projection screen…
…only to find themselves within the Camp Bloodbath film!
The Final Girls cleverly and at times hilariously explores the conventions of these slasher films. The “real” people try their best to help out the movie characters to survive and, ultimately, kill off “Billy Murphy”, the Jason-like machete killer targeting everyone at the camp.
While the film is at times quite funny, there remains the bittersweet/sad undercurrent of Max meeting up with her mother once again, even though this time around she really isn’t her mother but rather Nancy, one of the soon-to-be victims in the Camp Bloodbath movie.
I don’t want to give too much more away but the film is a pleasant, very good comedy that falls just shy of being great.
Where does it fall short?
I think part of the problem lies in the film within a film needed to be a bit closer in its look to the actual Friday the 13th films. By that I mean there needed to be a greater sense of darkness and foreboding, something the Friday the 13th films did even when not showing graphic violence. Speaking of which, some have argued the film should have gone the “R” rated rather than PG-13 route, that if you’re making a “tribute” to the slasher films of the 1980’s there should be nudity and graphic violence. Given the sadness which lies beneath the laughs, I’m not sure about that.
People might have been turned off had Amanda/Nancy actually stripped or been shown graphically murdered. Further, once I got to know some of the other characters in the movie within a movie, I felt for them and worried about their predetermined fate(s). I didn’t need to see them then die in very graphic ways…then again, that’s just me.
Regardless, The Final Girls is very much worth a look, especially if you are familiar with the films it most gently -and at times hilariously- skewers.
Recommended.
Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice Trailer #3
Aired last night (featuring Ben “the bomb” Affleck!):
What has me the most curious are the various comments from people. While there are those who like what they saw, there is soooo much hate directed at this film…a film that hasn’t even been released yet!
Why is that?
I suppose in part its leftover feelings toward Man of Steel. I can understand if you were disappointed with the film and, given the fact that the same director returned for this film, you’re pessimistic.
But have the clips/trailers released so far been that bad?
Really?
So I’m thinking maybe we’re dealing with something else. Way back when there was this whole “Marvel vs. DC” mentality. There were comic book fans who absolutely refused to read DC comics because Marvel comics were “the best”. When the current wave of superhero movies came out, there was little doubt the Marvel movies this time around were doing very well for themselves, with some minor exceptions.
During this period of time we’ve had a large assortment of Marvel movies and, from DC, the completed Nolan trilogy of Batman films and Man of Steel. I enjoyed the Nolan Batman films though I considered them flawed. I also enjoyed many of the Marvel films and consider Captain America The Winter Soldier one of the absolute best superheroes ever made. Even as I say this, for the life of me I can’t understand what people found so good about Guardians of the Galaxy (hated that film, sorry!).
What I’m trying to say here is: I take each new movie as it comes, even as I (paradoxically) fear that we may eventually -perhaps very soon- reach a (ahem) supersaturation point.
I have yet to see Man of Steel (though I have the BluRay) and can only judge Batman v Superman based on the trailers/clips. And based on that…I’m digging what I’ve seen so far.
In this newest trailer, I like the interactions between the characters. I laughed at the way Lex Luthor gets between Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne and (without him knowing it?) presents what I’m assuming is the plot of the movie in his small soundbite. Lex notes how he “loves to introduce people” then states of Clark “you wouldn’t want to get into a fight with him”.
You can accuse the writers of going for cheesy, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t find it…fun.
So many people lamented the dour tone of Man of Steel and the seemingly equally dour tone of this movie as presented in the previous trailers and clips. And now, when a commercial hints to the possibility that the film may have a light/humorous touch as well, they jump on that and say the dialogue is ridiculous.
Has the whole Marvel vs. DC thing spread to the movies as well? And of those people who express the most vitriol against this not-yet-released film, will their opinion change when they see the entire film?
More importantly, could it change?
For all I know, Batman v Superman might wind up being a terrible film. But based on the trailers and clips I’ve seen so far, I’m optimistic.
Phantoms (1998) a (very) belated review
When one thinks of the movie 1998 movie Phantoms, I suspect its more for this very funny self-referential line delivered by one of the movie’s stars, Ben Affleck, in the film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back:
“Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms“.
Funny stuff and one suspects that Mr. Affleck (given how his character in this scene takes down the critically acclaimed Oscar winning -for him!- film Good Will Hunting just beforehand) doesn’t think all that much of Phantoms and/or his acting in it.
I have only a vague recollection of Phantoms coming out in theaters back in 1998. I didn’t see it then because I had read the 1983 Dean Koontz novel the movie was based on a couple of years before and found that although Mr. Koontz’s story started off extremely well, its second half/resolution proved a big disappointment.
Why see the movie version of a novel that disappointed you?
I nonetheless caught bits and pieces of the movie on TV in the intervening years and found what I saw neither terribly bad nor incredibly good…even though the film did indeed feature the “bomb” presence of Mr. Affleck.
The other day one of the cable stations was airing Phantoms and I decided to finally sit down and watch the whole damn thing. By now enough years had passed and my distaste for the novel’s conclusion had evaporated and I could watch the film “fresh”.
And what I saw wasn’t all that bad. That’s not to say the film, except for that great Ben Affleck quote, is a “forgotten” masterpiece in horror. It isn’t, but its a decent enough time killer.
The plot of the movie (as with the book) goes like this: Dr. Jennifer Pailey (Joanna Going) brings her younger sister Lisa (Rose McGowan) from L.A. to the quiet and small town of Snowfield, Colorado. There is tension between the siblings but it is forgotten very quickly when they arrive in town and find that it appears completely deserted.
There is absolutely no one to be seen and when the sisters get to their house, they find a corpse and realize something very sinister is afoot. Soon, they are joined by some deputies who have just arrived in town (including Mr. Affleck and Liev Schreiber playing a whacked out weirdo Deputy).
Eventually the group is also joined by Dr. Timothy Flyte (Peter O’Toole looking shockingly old and frail…I can’t help but wonder if he was experiencing some health issues while making this film). Flyte is a disgraced academic scientist who is now forced to write for a “National Enquirer” type rag wherein he espouses theories of a mysterious creature that lives underground and may be responsible for the disappearance of entire cultures/cities/groups of people in the past.
Guess he was on to something, no?
Anyway, Phantoms’ story plays out like a cross between Alien and The Andromeda Strain. You have your mysterious/unbeatable monster who’s hunting people down one by one and you also have the town whose inhabitants mysteriously perish, along with a “scientific” resolution to the problem.
The movie presents some good shocks but isn’t overwhelmingly gory. There are also several very effective creepy moments sprinkled throughout.
On the minus side, there are also plenty of logical holes in the story. One of the bigger ones: Why exactly does the creature leave certain people alive, especially after they’ve served their purpose (I’m trying to dance around SPOILERS)? And if we are to believe the creature is capable of doing what it does, why would it allow our heroes any movement, especially the ability to find a way to defeat it? I suppose what I’m really saying is this: Dean Koontz created a creature that was simply too powerful to be defeated in any logical way.
There are also too many characters populating the film. When an author writes a novel, they have as much time and space as they desire to breathe life into their characters. Unfortunately, when producing a film, you have a limited amount of time to tell your story and sometimes streamlining characters/events helps to tell a more effective story in the allotted time. In the case of Phantoms, one of my complaints is that it felt we were dealing with too many characters. While, I have nothing against either Joanna Going or Rose McGowan or their acting within this film, Phantoms might have been more effective film if it merged their two characters into one.
Anyway, the bottom line is this: While not the greatest horror film in the world, Phantoms is among the better adaptations of Dean Koontz novels. If you’re in the mood to see Ben “the bomb” Affleck as the hero in a horror film, you’ve certainly come to the right place.
National Board of Review’s Best Film of 2015 is…
…Mad Max Fury Road?!
When word came out this movie was elected best film of the year (you can read the entire article and find the other award winners here), I was…I don’t know.
I like MMFR. However, as much as I like it (and you can read my full review of the film here), there were things about it that didn’t work for me and I mentioned them in my original review. Nonetheless, I came away liking the film and recommending it. I further noted the best Mad Max film remains Mad Max 2 aka The Road Warrior. Even to this day I find it hard to sit through that movie’s final chase sequence as it is both incredibly brutal and emotional. Characters I’ve come to love perish in that final chase and, to prove how damn effective that film was, I can’t bear seeing them die.
That’s a movie that (excuse the language) has you by the balls.
Interestingly, many of the comments following the National Board of Review’s decision to name MMFR the best film of the year have shown there’s a deep schism between the film’s admirers and detractors. Those who love the film really love the film while those who don’t openly wonder just what it is others saw that was so great in it.
Which means I fall somewhere in the middle. I’ll be honest: I don’t know if MMFR deserves to be considered the best film of 2015. On the other hand, I haven’t seen any of the others on their list, which are:
Bridge of Spies
Creed
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
The Martian
Room
Sicario
Spotlight
Straight Outta Compton
As with all things, one’s feelings for a work of art are deeply personal. I thought MMFR was a very good film that didn’t quite live up to the high ceiling director George Miller set with Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior. That doesn’t mean I think MMFR is “bad”. Nonetheless, I suppose I’m closer to the detractor side than in agreement with the National Board of Review. MMFR is a very good film but the best film released this year?
I don’t know about that.
C’est la vie.
Found in Time (2012) a (mildly) belated review
I absolutely love the concept of time travel and feel it makes for some wonderful storytelling. In fact, of the short stories I’ve written, my favorite is Dreams Do Come True, which happens to be a clever (IMHO!) take on time travel/revenge.
I’ve heard it said never to write a time travel story, that so many people with incredible talent have taken on the subject that the likelihood of you doing something original and/or interesting with a time travel story is virtually nil.
I don’t agree though I can see the point. There have been an awful lot of time travel stories made and, as with all things, many of them are at best forgettable and at worst terrible.
But when they’re good…
Found in Time (2012) is a very low budget time travel film that, I take it from the closing credits, was made through crowdfunding. The low budget, for the most part, doesn’t hurt what we see with one major exception (I’ll get to that in a bit).
The plot of the film, in some ways, reminded me of the oddball structure of Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys, even as the central plot doesn’t come close to Gilliam’s apocalyptic urgency.
The film follows Chris (MacLeod Andrews) an oddball “psychic” vendor who lives in a weird pseudo-New York. He lives with Jina (Kelly Sullivan) a girlfriend he intends to propose to while working on a street corner next to RJ (Derek Morgan) and, eventually, Ayana (Mina Vesper Gokal).
Psychic vendors, we learn, are people who have a unique talent for figuring out what others need and giving it to them. RJ, for example, offers cups of coffee that he creates which help people with their current needs, whether it be humility or pep or strength, etc. Chris, on the other hand, collects oddball items, from small rubber balls to postcards to string to rocks to (significantly) nails and magically knows when people will need these items.
Chris, as it turns out, is also stuck out of time.
His world moves illogically and he may suddenly find himself a day into the future or past. Further, he eventually finds he can dictate the future based on his actions in the past.
As mentioned, he lives with Jina but, as we eventually find, she isn’t all she appears. The whole “stuck outside time” problem Chris has sometimes causes him great headaches and he controls this by using drugs. Jina insists he see a Psychiatrist specializing in people like him and, we find, she works in that field as well.
Is she with him because she genuinely loves him or is he a subject of her studies? And what happens when Chris discovers he’s about to commit a crime…can he alter his past to allow himself a brighter future?
As I mentioned before, Found In Time is a very low budget affair but the lack of special effects is unimportant. In fact, the one “effect” the movie does give us, a bizarre safety mask worn by the psychiatrists, is rather laughable and probably should have been discarded as it was truly unnecessary.
Instead, we’re given a film that features a bizarre yet recognizable New York setting and a society and characters that are intriguing enough to propel us through the film.
Is Found In Time a great work? I don’t think it quite reaches that point. The story is at times a bit confusing although after the viewer gets his/her bearing they should understand what’s going on but in the end what you’ve witnessed isn’t necessarily earth-shattering.
Still, Found In Time is an intriguing yet small film that dares to explore a well worn topic in a unique and interesting way. While it may not be a great film, it is good enough to give a try, especially if you’re looking for something different.