@Agony said:

I'm generally a fan of the genre and I did watch the whole thing play out in hopes the positive feedback this movie generally recieves wasn't for nothing... It's for nothing. There is no payoff for buying into the main characters irrational actions.

If you want to see a time loop movie just rewatch Triangle would be my advice. You're welcome.

Yes. Watch only one time loop movie, because.......... just because.

I agree, Agony.

I thought the same thing. The film basically repeats itself over and over again. A lot of time loop films will make this really interesting, I usually love that sort of thing. But with Timecrimes it felt like I was just sitting through the same events waiting for something to happen. I don't think it's a bad film. But it's nothing groundbreaking.

Its no Back To The Future, but a well thought out time travel movie that is much smaller & only affects the lives of 3 people (was there more? Its been years since I've seen it). I'll say I LIKED it quite a bit!

@JustinJackFlash said:

I thought the same thing. The film basically repeats itself over and over again. A lot of time loop films will make this really interesting, I usually love that sort of thing. But with Timecrimes it felt like I was just sitting through the same events waiting for something to happen. I don't think it's a bad film. But it's nothing groundbreaking.

I completely agree with this, I was waiting for something "more" to happen. I sought this out based on the director doing Colossal and while this was watchable, I just really hated the main character (although thinking now, probably why Anne Hathaway's character was unlikeable as well).

Not sure if it was intentional but the actions that the main character took just didn't make sense, such as wrapping his whole head in a bandage. Wasn't clear if he was doing this because of his head injury or whether he believed at that moment he needed to do that to ensure the loop was maintained (like he did with threatening the woman to strip, using his hands as pretend binoculars etc).

Yes his actions were very dumb, I couldn't understand while watching why he'd harm his own arm.

But it's a fair low budget movie, and I aplaud writer for keeping it coherent.

I suppose he wanted to portray a very troubling paradox of time travel, when the consequence leads to the cause. Hector 2's motivation was to lead Hector 1 to the time machine so he'd not have 2 of himself, so he needed to make everything happen as it had. There's no reason to harm his arm, but it happened, so he just did it again to ensure things wouldn't go differently. While in most stories the person goes to past to change something, he goes by accident - in fact he thinks so - and wanna make sure things don't change.

But then, if he going to the past leads himself to go to the past, if he doesn't do so, then he'd never go to begin with. It's a look where consequence leads to cause, there's no cause outside of the looping system. But if there's no thing outside the system causing its events, how can they happen? But when we apply that with the system being the universe, would it be the way it is by itself, or there needs to be something like another universe or a multiverse outside of it?

Then we have Hector 2 seeing his wife dead and decides to go back once more to save her. But then again, if he saves her, what will happen with Hector 2, if he doesn't go back? He Hector 3 alrdy learned that he was part of the causes of the events, so if he as Hector 2 doesn't go back then the whole sequence of events would break apart. Then he decides to sacrifice the pretty slim girl to lead Hector 2 to go back and save his wife.

That's nuts. And when I think about all these nuances I see that this short story isn't bad at all, writer thought a lot to get all events right.

You listen to the scientist; sometimes other people know more than you! And I don't care if he's stuck in a time loop forever, you don't sexually assault someone. It's callous. It's ridiculous. And I hate it.

lol of course, he's the protagonist but he's the anti-hero, he commits many crimes throught the movie. The poor girl was just walking by the road and she gets assaulted, harassed and murdered for nothing. Any reasonably good person would never trouble somebody else to solve his own trouble. It made me annoyed on how everybody was troubled by a threat that didn't have to exist.

What I mean is that it all starts when Hector is dumbly on his yard looking at the trees on his binoculus on nothing, when he sees her stripping. If she just passed by the road he'd never had seen her at all. This is a sequence of events that only starts caused by events on the sequence itself, there's no event outside of them that triggers the start of the sequence.

@HikariWS said:

he commits many crimes throught the movie.

This is what makes it insipid. I have no patience for a protagonist who is his own worst enemy, with bad intentions.

He's a disgusting character. But I guess it couldn't be otherwise, to have the ambience of something bad happening and a character wanting to make sure things go as alrdy went. Bad things pushed him forward early, then he chose to ensure the bad things happened so events wouldn't change. 1st he wanted to ensure there wouldn't be 2 of him around, then he wanted to save his wife, then he needed to make him believe she was dead so he'd go save her while she didn't die so he needed a decoy.

Regardless of the character, I still think the plot nice and original. As I said, most time travel plots are about going back in time to change things and avoid something bad from happening leading to things getting worse before getting fixed, leading to unsolved paradoxes. Here we have him going back in time to ensure things don't change so a paradox isn't created, even though bad things happen and keep getting worse to never be fixed.