I forgot that I hadn't written a review for this mind-blowing and inspirational new time travel movie. So here it is: I loved this movie! I won't go into the plot too much, but these very realistic engineering geeks accidentally build a time machine and a very cool, very indie nested story ensues. What I find especially inspirational about it is that the director (and writer and star) Shane Carruth, made this movie for $7,000 and best of all he used his budget limitations to make the movie seem all that much more authentic. It's almost as if your eavesdropping on a true story. This combined with the naturalistic acting and very well written story that doesn't feed you all the answers makes for the best sci-fi movie I saw all year (easily!). To me it shows that if a story is strong enough and you have enough grasp of the visual language of film, money is not the issue. For that matter, I find it inspirational in any media, that money is never the excuse - it is ambition, creativity, and actually getting the thing done. They also had a very cool promotional gimmick - you could go back and see the movie at the same theatre again and again with your original ticket - I saw it 5 times and enjoyed it more each successive time - the theatre itself became my time machine...

5 out of 5.

(P.S.: Here's the trailer...)

It made a big splash at Sundance, and I've been interested ever since. I never caught it (it did play in Dallas, though), but it is on my Netflix list.

Huh. I'ver never heard of it, but from the sound of it, the movie has already left the theatres. Is it available to rent yet? If so I'll try to check it out and tell you what I thought. I don't think I've seen much in the way of smaller sci-fi fovies. Mostly because I'm not very familiar with the genre and have enough trouble even understanding simpler mainstream storylines. It would be interesting to see this, since about the most obscure sci-fi films I've seen are Bladerunner and Donnie Darko (if the later can really be considered sci-fi is even debateable). I need to see more.