I so very much wanted to love this film. Everything about the premise ticks the right boxes. Mockumentary, check. History of 20th Century science, check. Positing an amusing/entertaining/semi-plausible scenario for the existence of time travel (-vinyl scratch-).
Problems begin right from the start when the film unveils the ultimate punchline far too soon with almost no setup; time travel is real. We're then presented with a convoluted, and I suspect very hole ridden series of plot twists as history is rewritten over and over again. I lack the patience to map out all the plot twists but suspect it wouldn't work even in 14 spacial dimensions. At the end of it the gorilla in the room is still looking unhappy: how do we have record of these convoluted events and why weren't they all erased from memory when the last history was written to produce the timeline the documentary was made within? The self recording of the first time machine usage only explains a portion of the mystery but does not explain the many alterations of history. Had they taken the effort to explain that paradox, well, the plot holes might be reduced to perhaps 8 spacial dimensions.
It didn't help that many of the actors were far too young to believably portray the learned, experienced and degreed specialists. Yes, yes, I know, student production, yadda yadda, it was still a problem.
Mildly amusing but ultimately disappointing.
Problems begin right from the start when the film unveils the ultimate punchline far too soon with almost no setup; time travel is real. We're then presented with a convoluted, and I suspect very hole ridden series of plot twists as history is rewritten over and over again. I lack the patience to map out all the plot twists but suspect it wouldn't work even in 14 spacial dimensions. At the end of it the gorilla in the room is still looking unhappy: how do we have record of these convoluted events and why weren't they all erased from memory when the last history was written to produce the timeline the documentary was made within? The self recording of the first time machine usage only explains a portion of the mystery but does not explain the many alterations of history. Had they taken the effort to explain that paradox, well, the plot holes might be reduced to perhaps 8 spacial dimensions.
It didn't help that many of the actors were far too young to believably portray the learned, experienced and degreed specialists. Yes, yes, I know, student production, yadda yadda, it was still a problem.
Mildly amusing but ultimately disappointing.