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Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This movie had potential, at least from the directorial point of view. Unfortunately, the story is highly derivative. The "story-in-a-loop" shtick dates back all the way to "Dead Of Night", a movie from the mid-40s, and has been utilized – with great success (I don't mean box-office-wise, I don't care about that) – in the excellent 2009 movie, "Triangle". Hence for this movie to use the same damn plot-twist as a movie that was made just a year earlier is pretty weak indeed. "Dead Birds" also comes to mind, and a few others. Fine, originality isn't the key factor when it comes to horror films, but I still expect to at least not be bored with yet another stereotypical ending. As in "Triangle", even a lot of the plot is on water, in a boat, frcrissakes. That's a little too much.Besides, plenty of nonsense is going on here. 1) The old geezer was shooting down dead teens AND driving the black guy around in a boat, at the same time; this doesn't even make sense within the movie's rather chaotic supernatural-loop premise. 2) He doesn't kill Joe at the camp-fire. Why? He seemed perfectly happy to kill everyone else from that group just a little later. 3) How can the main female character not remember that she witnessed all those murders years earlier? She seems mentally undamaged (apart from picking a loser for a boyfriend). 4) That whole almost slapstick-like nonsense when A wounds B by mistake, with a machete, and then B kills C by mistake (I don't remember their names), and all of this occurring within a mere minute. That's what I call a comedy of errors, not a plot-twist.The cast is generally OK. The two "lesser" females (i.e. the ones we knew would get knocked off eventually because they were featured AFTER the main female character) are fairly attractive. The only issue I have is with the black guy who is a terrible actor, at least for horror films. He almost seemed BORED at times, in spite of being surrounded by impaled friends, loony teens, burned bodies, and aggressive apparitions. His performance is so low-key (that's one way of putting it) that I even suspected briefly he might be somehow involved with the horroric shenanigans. As it turns out, the character he plays was just as much a victim as everyone else on that boat – i.e. he is an appalling actor who can't feign being scared. Perhaps he should have taken part in MTV's drama course, "Scream Queens".The usual clichés: 1) the phone doesn't work (this happens TWICE), 2) 3 pairs of young people, though at least they're 20-somethings as opposed to daft teens, 3) the main couple survives, 4) the others all snuff it, with the overly cocky male being the first victim, 5) the main characters that survive are more intelligent, less aggressive, and more educated than the four who snuff it, 6) and of course the time-loop cliché.There are other ridiculous plot-devices here too, but why bother? This movie barely gets the average grade.

I'd say this film is more of a puzzling suspense film than a horror flick. It's a rather intelligently-written film, but it still didn't completely wow me. Again, the typical handful of young adults, this time in the setting of taking a boat through some reedy marsh-like area of the UK. For a long time, the entire movie feels like a jigsaw puzzle. We're shown glimpses of the whole, but we still can only guess what they all fit together to finally mean.Is it a basic madman slasher thing? Are they being haunted by ghosts? Dopplegangers? Ah, it's some weird temporal flux thing...but still, that only explains a piece of the overall mystery. Who's the guy in the hood with the gun? What's his beef exactly? This movie will do a good job for a lot of people to unsettle them because the audience keeps having to ask these questions. And as we're calmly asking questions, our main protagonists are panicking here and there at what they don't understand. So much of the suffering and death comes from this really wonderful plot device: when you experience something you don't understand, the worse part of you wants to panic. When you panic, you're prone to make bad decisions. When you make bad decisions, bad things happen and people get hurt. The fact that so many of our main characters just screwed themselves over because of this speaks to me of relatively smarter storywriting.However, this film isn't without its flaws. I said a lot of people would be unsettled by the nature of this film's storyline, but not me. Again, it felt more like a mystery movie than a horror flick, and the climax, while it still puts together enough of the pieces to satisfy us, didn't leave me feeling like much was really resolved. There's no real denouement, especially as we are led to believe with the final scene that the couple who "escaped" get caught back at the beginning of the entire temporal loop that messed them all up in the first place. Give a try, though; you might enjoy it.

As usual some of these reviews seem placed by people attached to the project! There's a lot of Love or Hate hmmmm. This is often the case with these lower budget films but...For what its worth, this is a solidly performed low budget horror with a less than solid conclusion. The journey is fun to watch and compelling although the cinematography is slightley dated.For high-end scares / gore / violence (those things you expect from indie horror) you may find this lacking. But then so are most big budget Hollywood offerings.If you like the genre, this is far from the worst flick out there. Worth a spin. ******

This movie definitely reminds me on Triangle but has much less sense and style. It is pretty poorly developed and has amateurish approach when it comes to crucial points. Beginning was kinda promising with tense scenes and reasonably intelligent mystery. However, film takes another track after that and that is mostly the misery of the main heroes which is trying to make impression on us by bizarre scenes that are more typical for Hollywood and in the most of the cases are sign of movie-maker's incompetence. Most of the horror movies made in Britain that I've seen were pretty good, but this one is definitely not the case. Take a look and judge by yourself.