![]() One of the initial problems Renton has is he doesn't trust Hannah right away, and for good reason, she basically played him. Renton wakes up first, perhaps because he was the last to die in the previous loop? (Not quite sure.)Īnyways he wakes up and well you know how it all plays out. Not a very useful message.Ĭycle 3141 comes around. All it really says is Hey listen, Torus.blah blah and END SCENE. ![]() Unfortunately, the message is well rather useless. Obviously each loop and cycle is slightly different, at the end of cycle 3140 (the previous loop before the one we first see) or perhaps even in an earlier cycle they had the bright idea to leave a video message. Now they have basically died or failed in every loop and cycle previously. Anyways, for the sake of argument let's say we were watching loop 3141. I thought I heard them say that the video was a year old, I am not sure. For example, in the movie Inception, I like that ending, because in my mind him not waiting to see if his top stops spinning means he doesn't really care if he is dreaming or not.which is the what the director is trying to show the viewer at the end.it doesn't is real for him.Īnyways, we don't know exactly how many loops or cycles they have gone through, but it is probably a lot. I am usually not to fond of open endings for movies, it usually seems like a cop out or just plain annoying, however, there are exceptions. If I were you, I'd give it a watch and see for yourself.Ok, so I was a little disappointed with the ending. I still choose to give this a higher rating, because it could be the beginning of something awesomely awesome. I really hope they somehow expand on this with a sequel, or turn it into a TV show, but those are hypotheticals. Which kind of changes my tune a bit, and leaves me still giving the finger to my TV, though without the accompaniment of a smile. However, this wasn't a pilot episode, it was a movie. If a second episode was out, no way I'd be choosing to write this instead of finding out what comes next. As you would expect in a really great pilot episode, the ending left me smiling while simultaneously giving the finger to my TV screen. This is where the hypotheticals come in to play: If this was the pilot episode for a new TV series setting up a story line for an entire season (one in which the time-loop was resolved early and didn't play-out all season) then this would be flipping fantastic, and would have every viewer intrigued and ready to watch the next episode. The acting was great, the set was limited to a house which really created an intimate environment for the viewer, and the film pulled off a cliché story while maintaining a certain level of uniqueness. They stuck to the main story line without jam packing a compendium of background knowledge into the film. There is a lot of information and history left to the imagination which will definitely turn viewers away, though I personally found quite refreshing. however I felt ARQ did an amazing job of realizing this, and ushered us into the story line of continuous time-loops relatively fast and efficient, while still keeping me intrigued to the background story taking place. ![]() let me explain that: This movie is very familiar in the sense that the "groundhog day" concept has been beaten to death, then you wake up and it's beaten to death, then you wake, etc. This is going to be somewhat of a difficult review as my rating is based on hypotheticals.
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