A Promise of Time Travel (2016)

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I don't care if a movie is made on the very cheap, so long as it has an engaging story, and A Promise of Time Travel does. For most of the run time, it seems true to its title, more about a series of heists to get to a fabled time machine than about time travel itself, though peppered with discussions on time as a concept (though never too pretentiously). But there's still something strange going on, and the audience will discover that it WAS a time travel puzzle movie all along. It's interesting than alphabetically, the movie would follow Predestination and Primer on the time travel shelf because it has a lot in common with those movies, though it's easier to decode. Liberal use of flashbacks makes sure of that, but as they're part of the narrative and the theme from the beginning, I don't resent them the way I have similar practices in other films. I found April Grace Lowe quite effective in the lead role, and the movie is a lot more intriguing than its low production values seem to predict. 3 years 7 months ago