This movie can be lumped in with other great time travel movies like Primer, Coherence, and Triangle. It is very suspenseful and even managed to throw in some horror elements. But about 3/4 the way through the movie it begins to fall flat as the story steps away from the main setting (the lab and forest) into a new setting (the couple's home) and no longer has anything setup to entertain the time traveling idea. It works well in the first setting because you can see how each Hector affects each other's story. But at the second setting you see no remnants of each Hector affecting the other until the very last scene, which is lackluster at best. This is inevitably the problem with time travel movies.... how do you show four separate shots of the same scene with each shot revealing something new that affects the previous shots? Not easy. Triangle does a damn good job at this. And I personally feel Predestination is by far the best in this genre. That being said, this is a very low budget time travel movie and I enjoyed it quite a bit. It would have been nice to see all the Hectors killed, just to realize that there is still one more. Or see the universe explode because of a paradox. So I did feel a little let down by the ending. Nevertheless, I recommend it. 6.5/10.
Review of Timecrimes
