Powerful

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

A different way of telling a story

I love time travel themed movies, but I sadly could not get past the acting in this movie. I really wanted to like it because the premise is interesting. But every time Jasper opened his mouth and spoke, I drifted further and further away from this movie.

The whole concept is flawed. If I put up scores in the window from today and went and viewed a photo that shows the room 24 hours in the future, the scores would in deed be there if I didn't take them down. But the event would have still taken place yesterday and betting on the games wouldn't win you any money. The only way it might work is if you snapped a photo of the TV or something live that had the sports channel on and showing the scores of 24 hours in the future.

Time Lapse is one of those movies that rely on several contrivances to have much of a plot. Right away one is left wondering why the trio didn't merely buy a lottery ticket instead of betting on greyhound races, much less bet them thru a bookie. I didn't need the pictures the machine popped out to know what was going to happen next. Still, it was fairly entertaining right up until the very end, when in it totally goes off the rails and stops making sense. Instead of getting pictures of tomorrow's events, which had been the premise of the movie, suddenly Callie is leaving herself "camera notes" to carry out tomorrow events that have already occurred in the present. By that point though I was ready for the ending. The main trio of actors did do a fine job with their characters, especially Danielle Pannabaker. Too bad the writer couldn't have come up with a better ending.

I liked this movie. It is a fresh exploration into the vagaries of time travel. The results of knowing what shouldn't be known twist the characters psyche, and they take the belief in predetermination to religious proportions.There deep conjecture that drives this movie regards fate and personalities. They suggest that the photos are locked-in premonitions which drives the story for a time. No one can really tell how they'd react to the situation as portrayed so I don't mind going with the writers' characterizations on this point.I also give leeway as there were only short periods of time to make decisions, especially when those decisions began to require massive mental adjustments: murder, cheating, lying, jealousy, fear, anger, confusion, control. Then throw in a handful of pharmaceuticals and things got spiced up quickly. While I think some of the decisions made by the characters were pretty stupid, you have to allow that it might be possible that they'd act this way. If everyone did the logical and intelligent thing you wouldn't get much of a story.I quite like the ending. It is very believable that a person could lose their mind after going through these events.The budget was spent in the right places, and for such a limited set, the story was kept moving and didn't bog down.It is definitely worth a watch.