THIS REVIEW DOES CONTAIN SPOILERS! First off i enjoyed this film, i was gripped right up until the first plot hole and even after that i was hoping to be hit by an epic twist that would reveal that hole as being totally filled. Saddly by the end of the film there are still many holes left gapingly open and I'd like to explain what i thought these holes were, if anyone can explain it to me differently please do!
First off, for the film to work the main character must have no idea of the 'groundhog day like' loop she is stuck in until she sees herself and her friends from the ocean liner for the first time, this makes the ending in which she deliberately restarts the loop from the beginning completely contradictory as she clearly knows what she is getting herself into. I accept this can be partially explained away by just assuming that the main character merely loses her memory sometime between boarding her friends boat and boarding the liner, probably during the storm, could be a symbolic nod to her memories of the loop being 'washed away'.
The future version of the main character (the murderous one who she clips with the shotgun) is an anomaly. The main character never becomes this version of herself, never kills the others with a knife and never battles and ultimately kills this version of herself before throwing her overboard. There is no clue as to how she ever became that evil, other than taking shrapnel to the head :)
I've edited this review a few times as it is incredibly hard to explain exactly what was wrong with the film because its so complicated and makes any explanation hard to follow, believe me when i say there are many other little faults however.
Finally there is the question about the taxi driver at the end, this bit i do understand. When the group first arrive on the ocean liner they talk about a Greek mythical story about a man cursed to forever push a rock up a hill just to see it fall back down again and again, this was apparently a punishment for cheating death. With this in mind the taxi driver is obviously supposed to be death or at least some power responsible for the loop. After the car accident the driver takes her back to the harbour, her intent clearly to try to right the death of her child, however i suspect that her 'curse' may be responsible for removing her memory, again probably during the storm.
If you have understood any of this review then frankly i'm surprised, even if you have seen it :) For those who haven't yet seen the film i hope that this review has simply sparked your curiosity because despite its faults it is still a watch worthy film.
First off, for the film to work the main character must have no idea of the 'groundhog day like' loop she is stuck in until she sees herself and her friends from the ocean liner for the first time, this makes the ending in which she deliberately restarts the loop from the beginning completely contradictory as she clearly knows what she is getting herself into. I accept this can be partially explained away by just assuming that the main character merely loses her memory sometime between boarding her friends boat and boarding the liner, probably during the storm, could be a symbolic nod to her memories of the loop being 'washed away'.
The future version of the main character (the murderous one who she clips with the shotgun) is an anomaly. The main character never becomes this version of herself, never kills the others with a knife and never battles and ultimately kills this version of herself before throwing her overboard. There is no clue as to how she ever became that evil, other than taking shrapnel to the head :)
I've edited this review a few times as it is incredibly hard to explain exactly what was wrong with the film because its so complicated and makes any explanation hard to follow, believe me when i say there are many other little faults however.
Finally there is the question about the taxi driver at the end, this bit i do understand. When the group first arrive on the ocean liner they talk about a Greek mythical story about a man cursed to forever push a rock up a hill just to see it fall back down again and again, this was apparently a punishment for cheating death. With this in mind the taxi driver is obviously supposed to be death or at least some power responsible for the loop. After the car accident the driver takes her back to the harbour, her intent clearly to try to right the death of her child, however i suspect that her 'curse' may be responsible for removing her memory, again probably during the storm.
If you have understood any of this review then frankly i'm surprised, even if you have seen it :) For those who haven't yet seen the film i hope that this review has simply sparked your curiosity because despite its faults it is still a watch worthy film.