In 2:22, Michiel Huisman's character has an uncanny ability to see patterns in the every day, and a few days before a supernova's energies hits Earth, he starts noticing disturbing patterns that might almost qualify this as a time loop movie, ending at 2:22 PM every day with an explosive event. Along with the bad luck comes the good, and there's just no way for him to explain the various coincidences converging on his life. I'm not sure the movie has entirely decided on an explanation, mind you, and our interpreters could be wrong at various moments. Essentially, all the New Age bunk - astrology, reincarnation, destiny - seems to be real, so I just sat back, relaxed, and took it as a Twilight Zone story, not a hard sci-fi one (in the least). If I can enjoy Battlestar Galactica, I can enjoy this. In any case, I liked the Huisman/Teresa Palmer romantic pairing, I liked the investigation of unexplainable phenomena, and the movie was nice to look at. Wouldn't it have been amazing if the climax had occurred at 2:22 when I watched it? If you want to freak someone out, I did the math, start the movie a few seconds shy of 12:54 PM for just the right frisson.
I enjoyed it overall, although I guessed where it was headed pretty early on (I'm generally not a great plot-twist-guesser, the clues were just about as subtle as a sledgehammer).
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In 2:22, Michiel Huisman's character has an uncanny ability to see patterns in the every day, and a few days before a supernova's energies hits Earth, he starts noticing disturbing patterns that might almost qualify this as a time loop movie, ending at 2:22 PM every day with an explosive event. Along with the bad luck comes the good, and there's just no way for him to explain the various coincidences converging on his life. I'm not sure the movie has entirely decided on an explanation, mind you, and our interpreters could be wrong at various moments. Essentially, all the New Age bunk - astrology, reincarnation, destiny - seems to be real, so I just sat back, relaxed, and took it as a Twilight Zone story, not a hard sci-fi one (in the least). If I can enjoy Battlestar Galactica, I can enjoy this. In any case, I liked the Huisman/Teresa Palmer romantic pairing, I liked the investigation of unexplainable phenomena, and the movie was nice to look at. Wouldn't it have been amazing if the climax had occurred at 2:22 when I watched it? If you want to freak someone out, I did the math, start the movie a few seconds shy of 12:54 PM for just the right frisson.popfactor
I enjoyed it overall, although I guessed where it was headed pretty early on (I'm generally not a great plot-twist-guesser, the clues were just about as subtle as a sledgehammer).