I am amused by those reviews that state that 'If you don't like this movie then you are too stupid to get it.' I'm pretty sure that I'm smart enough to get it. It just isn't. Smart, funny, or much of anything except a monotonous ride into nothingness.
The back story is pretty much non-existent. (Why are they here? Who is fighting? How would this guy, with no help or other backing, be able to create this machine - because other than punching in a few lines of code, he seems pretty average?) The protagonist keeps remembering his loops in time. But he is neither smart enough (He keeps blindly trusting his Hannah even though she betrays him EVERY time. He also keeps doing the same actions time and again.) or courageous enough (to actually stop the ARQ and end the cycle) to do anything about it. Instead he just keeps going for 'One more time!'. (If you keep doing the same thing again and again, expecting a different result...)
In the closing of the movie, it is revealed that they have been going through this not just 10 times, but thousands of times. He records another video which is to be shown to the NEXT iteration of loops, in the blind belief this would somehow change something...even though they have already seen a video of this that they kinda ignored this iteration.(so this isn't actually going to change anything? In fact, they don't even see the first video that indicates a problem until the 8th or 9th loop, so we can be reasonably sure this is NOT going to change anything.) Conceivably the premise of the movie is that this would just go on forever, with absolutely nothing changing.
That is not to say the movie is totally without merit. It promised of an intelligent thriller. It just failed to actually deliver on that promise. If the movie leaves you with a feeling incomplete ... there's a reason for that.
The back story is pretty much non-existent. (Why are they here? Who is fighting? How would this guy, with no help or other backing, be able to create this machine - because other than punching in a few lines of code, he seems pretty average?) The protagonist keeps remembering his loops in time. But he is neither smart enough (He keeps blindly trusting his Hannah even though she betrays him EVERY time. He also keeps doing the same actions time and again.) or courageous enough (to actually stop the ARQ and end the cycle) to do anything about it. Instead he just keeps going for 'One more time!'. (If you keep doing the same thing again and again, expecting a different result...)
In the closing of the movie, it is revealed that they have been going through this not just 10 times, but thousands of times. He records another video which is to be shown to the NEXT iteration of loops, in the blind belief this would somehow change something...even though they have already seen a video of this that they kinda ignored this iteration.(so this isn't actually going to change anything? In fact, they don't even see the first video that indicates a problem until the 8th or 9th loop, so we can be reasonably sure this is NOT going to change anything.) Conceivably the premise of the movie is that this would just go on forever, with absolutely nothing changing.
That is not to say the movie is totally without merit. It promised of an intelligent thriller. It just failed to actually deliver on that promise. If the movie leaves you with a feeling incomplete ... there's a reason for that.