Primer

What's in the box

I came away from Primer feeling disappointed. I had read a review for it a while back and was immediately excited. Two geeks build a time machine in their garage, and it had an intelligent plot! What’s not to like? Unfortunately it turns out to be if anything too intelligent, it’s reach far outreaching its grasp. It tries to be smart, ultra-smart in fact, but ends up being dumb. The plot is almost unbelievably complicated with multiple journeys back and forwards in time that have happened before the film starts, effecting what you see now. It’s like watching one of the final iterations of Groundhog Day the first time through with no prior knowledge of the situation. You won’t have to do much surfing on the web to find complicated timelines that explain to the plot of the movie. Now, it may be just me, but if you have to go to a web site in order to understand the plot of a film them something has gone wrong somewhere.