spiralofhope

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831289/

Some sort of time machine thing is discovered by an idiot and time machiney things happen because of paradoxes and a murder spree of intrigues and stuff.

I don’t think I paid close enough attention to understand what the fuck was going on. It wasn’t bad as such, but it was distractingly-overdubbed Kiwi-ese. Everything about it was fair, except for bits of the plot not grabbing me, and the speaking. The speaking thing is kind of important for me.

• 0:50 — Mitsubishi Motors
• 2:50 — “160 d.b. eden”(?)
• 4:10 — Oh, decibel.
• 4:25 — Whoa, this is overdubbed from English to .. occasionally-indecipherable Australian English?
• Some guy? Disappearing guy? Not alarming at all.
• 6:30 — Is she an anti-agent?
• 6:40 — “Well alright, sex for me tonight!” .. haha
• 8:50 — See, there’s this solution when two people haven’t had sex in a while and want to have sex. It’s called sex.
• 9:55 — It’s not working out? Is that why she’s being all romantic? Is she getting him drunk to sabotage his work?
• 11:20 — Intangibility
• 11:35 — She’s clumsy enough to fall over, but has ninja reflexes for fighting?
• 13:50 — I don’t understand this woman.
• 15:50 — Never feed chicken to a cat. Chicken bones splinter in nasty ways. Or is that a dog? I think it’s a dog. Well fuck dogs, feed them chocolate-dipped chicken bones.
• 16:45 — I wouldn’t assume the portal is permanent.
• 18:05 — They’re not in the UK, since they have guns. So is this Australia? Maybe New Zealand?
• 20:00 — Seat belt
• Transvestism
• 20:20 — Report in? He’s bleeding. That would be one of those emergency things that hospitals deal with.
• 21:25 — Didn’t the cop see the bad guy cross over earlier?
• 25:50 — That guy really is an idiot. The thing about work is that.. you can’t just stop and go with someone.
• 26:45 — She had broken up with him, but he’s going to be rich and famous so… she didn’t really break up with him.
• 30:00 — A guy giving up a reward shouldn’t be met with any hostility. The guard could have claimed he brought him in and collect it himself. Or falsify things and take the money himself.

• 31:30 — Oh! It’s Wellington, South Australia?

  • Update: No, Wellington, New Zealand.
• 42:15 — What the fuck.
• 58:10 — Cats don’t run away when food is being prepared.
• 58:30 — Given time and the knowledge of my impending death. Given 23 years I’d be quite the expert.
• 59:10 — 22 years of self-defence training and she’s incompetent. Maybe she should have just gotten a dog.
• 1:03:25 — Run while the entirely untrained dude fights for you? Seriously, 22 years gets some damned good training, even for a complete numpty beginner.
• 1:07:15 — Hehe, keeped it a secret.

• 1:07:55 — Oh hehe hehe hehehehe.. bank robbery!

And now I notice that the image says “The Kiwi Sci-Fi Phenomenon”.. so it’s New Zealand?

Half of this movie hinges upon technology whose discovery isn’t explained, and a strangely-obsessed cop. If the bad guy had killed the cop’s family or something, that would really go a long way to convincing me of his pursuit.