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As Good As It Gets

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

If we consider all the challenges they must have had, then yes, this is a good movie.But compared to indie, shoestring giants like Primer, it's not a good movie. Because: It fails to clearly state why the rescue doesn't succeed. Any time-travel movie should clearly explain what's going on. This movie fails to do so. Especially since it has an explanatory scene with the professors friends, the movie should have presented options, about what the hero was gonna do. Also, the soundtrack is completely annoying, it's music for supermarkets, low budget supermarkets. It's overused, and it would have been refreshing to have COMPLETE SILENCE once in a while. No doubt the producer follows some marketing trick that says: "Always have music. People will zap away if you don't." But 1st, that's an untested or undertested speculation, probably pushed by the owner of the studio who was losing business. 2nd, such a general needs not to apply to this specific film.5/10 The Melancholic Alcoholic.

I came across this movie by accident, worryingly common with film, and am very glad I did. The story is good and the acting is better. Only one group of characters are not up to par, but the rest of the film is so good it's easy to forgive. I was thinking that I'd like the film to be true, but decided that it's, on balance, better left alone. The film is so good it makes you think. Not a common feature of most offerings from Hollywood, so long live independent film makers.

This is an amateur film and parts of it are good, but for the most part it is still very amateur. Perhaps the best aspect is the directing and editing, which are probably good enough for mainstream film, but nothing amazing. The editing was well done, but again, fairly standard. Like any amateur film the acting ranges from reasonable to bad, but that's not exactly the directors fault given the limited budget.By far the biggest problem is the script which at times is quite poor, most noticeably when attempting to pose deep, metaphysical questions. At times I could hear the voice of the director speaking through his actors, and this sounded inept. In amateur film the scripting and plot are perhaps the only things not really held back by a restricted budget, and unfortunately neither aspect was that good. The film failed to evolve a coherent sense of empathy for the main protagonist, it feigned emotion more than produced any and nothing ever really became that interesting or exciting. Some characters, most noticeably the cops, were little more than 2-bit cliché's, and there were quite a few moments which were unnecessary, melodramatic and time-wasting. Having said that it's not unwatchable and as amateur film goes it's probably one of the better ones. But the director, in my opinion, is not ready to make feature length titles and needs to develop his abilities further, especially his screen-writing and scripting if he wants to write his own material. On the positive, however, I have seen Hollywood films that annoyed me far more and that's saying something.

A most excellent and entertaining film, well written and scored. The dialogue was at times thought provoking and, to be honest, was more or less in line with my thoughts on time travel which is as good a reason as any to like it! Perhaps a better script might have ruined it, and special effects would not have suited the films nuances and quirks. I have never come across a bad Australian film and this, being no exception, is a better one than some other highly glossy and commercial ones. In many ways this reminds me of a typical British film shot with lots of love on a low budget - earthy and local, with no pretensions. Plot holes were easy to forgive given that there were few for the given budget, and that, apart from the police scenes, the acting was of a quality any director would be pleased with. I enjoyed it. I would have bought this!