Time Lapse
Director: Bradley King
Writer: Bradley King, Bp Cooper
Cast: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O’Leary, George Finn, Jason Spisak, and a mini-mini-mini-cameo of John Rhys Davies
Part of: Viennale

Plot:
Callie (Danielle Panabaker), her boyfriend Finn (Matt O’Leary) and his best friend Jasper (George Finn) share an apartment in a complex of bungalows. Finn is a painter struggling with inspiration and to keep his head above water financially, he also works as a building manager in that complex. When their neighbor seems to have gone missing, the three of them enter his apartment and find a machine pointed at their living room that takes photos of the future. Intrigued the three of them decide to use this machine to their advantage.

Time Lapse was an entertaining film. It kept you guessing, at least for the most part, and was just fun to watch. It just seemed a little misplaced at the Viennale. But I guess every artsy film festival deserves its easy watching stuff as well.

As I said, for the most part the film isn’t very predictable and I was wondering where it would all going to end up. Unfortunately when it finally got there, I was not completely happy where the film went after all: [SPOILER] basically, it ends up being about a woman who goes crazy because her boyfriend doesn’t love her enough. And that was just a very disappointing ending [/SPOILER].

But other than that weak ending, I really liked the film. I didn’t even notice any major (or minor) plot holes, which is a hard thing to pull off with time travel movies. That doesn’t necessarily mean that there weren’t any there, but just that I enjoyed myself too much to notice.

I was also pretty busy with looking at George Finn, to be entirely honest. I mean, his character was an ass, but he was damn pretty. I’m usually not occupied with just looking at somebody, but his face made it happen.

The acting was quite good, even though we probably didn’t see the next award contenders. The plotting was excellent, though the writing generally relied a little too much on stereotypes to be really extraordinary. But for the film it was absolutely good enough and since both director and writer are first-timers (at least for full-length movies), I’m curious to see what they come up with next.

Summarizing: cool popcorn cinema.