Timecrimes

Love me some time travel flicks.

I'm always interested in what set of rules they give themselves. Can someone change the past? Is them trying to change the past simply not going to work and what they did is what they've always done? Timecrimes tries to have it both ways. Our lead believes he must set everything up the way it was before because that's how he originally saw it. Then as we dive deeper, he tries to change it up, fix mistakes...but can he? A low budget sic/fi time travel film that uses our general intrigue to propel a pretty basic story into something a little bit more meaty.

I had fun with this one. I did hope to be surprised a bit more than I was though. As with Deja Vu, we know that as soon as time travel is an option that the first go around we are seeing is usually not the characters first go around. So there are clues littered in the scene that one should pay attention to. A red vehicle smacking into our characters car and never showing up again? That seems suspect. So Timecrimes fails to pull the rug out from under the viewer with surprises (save for one moment towards the end for me at least) but the final result is still an enthralling time looping head scratcher.