I'm a sucker for time travel movies anyway, but Time Trap is actually pretty good for a the kind of cheaply-made SF that ends up on Netflix. A cast of characters are investigating a system of caves where time doesn't flow at the normal rate, and at first, it plays like a horror film. We've got disposable teens in a dark environment, they might start dropping like flies at any moment, even some knowing nods at Blair Witch Project. And they're initially a little slow to catch up to the audience in terms of understanding and accepting what's going on. And then things start to get loopy and it turns into well-produced science-fiction, and it's no longer going where you think it's going. It's never going to win prizes for dialog or acting, but it leans into its premise 100%, which I was expecting. I may even be designed that way, so as to create cheap cop-out expectations and then subvert them. After all, you're pretty convinced it's just a stupid slasher film dressed up as time travel until things get more interesting.
Cool concept, bad film. There is obviously the bad dialogue, much of the film being boring and of course they broke the golden rule of not casting teenagers in these types of film.
There is clearly something wrong with the scalar between the cave and outside. It proposes that years disappear in a matter of 5 sec. This alone would place every relevant person by the entrance of the cave, no matter how many entrances there are (as time moves so slow in the cave), which is clearly not the case here. I understand they did it this way to introduce some Type III or II civilisation. While a cool concept, they should have left it in the draft. Firstly because, they would have got out of the cave the moment a type III civ would have spotted them, given how fast time passes outside the cave. Secondly, they would have been found way earlier if we were going by that time scale, even if the climate made Earth inhabitable. Also quite funny that a type III person would lose a fight to a caveman, he could just have broken their necks the same way we open a door. Concept wise, they should have had time go way slower, allowing for the 2 different character groups to find each other using both outside the cave and inside cave exploration. Secondly, they should have dished the cavemen and used the hippies as villains. Also the cavemen would have found them way earlier in the film given the timespan. Thirdly, while i have never seen anyone attempt to show Type III civilisation in the eyes of people living in the present, it was just pointless in the end.
I think this just might be low budget B-movie sci-fi at its absolute best. The premise does a decent job of roping you in and it only gets better from there. Dialog was cringey at some points and was the one and only sore point for me. Could have been cleaned up really easily. It doesn't explain everything, but is presented in such a way that it doesn't need to and still makes sense with a little imagination from the viewer. Full props to whoever came up with this one.
Film bellissimo. Consigliato a tutti gli amanti del genere fantascientifico (o Sci-Fi).
L'unico animale che ricordo di aver visto è un cane, però non mi sembra di averlo visto stressato.
L'unica cosa che non mi ha convinto è stata
la presenza delle truppe spagnole in guerra perché tecnicamente non ci sarebbe stato letteralmente il tempo per trovarle in quella posizione (in battaglia) in un punto ancora più intenso della grotta. Secondo me là hanno esagerato.
L'idea invece degli alieni che trovano un sistema per espandere l'intercapedine temporale è ottima per giustificare gli ultimi minuti del film; se non avessero usato questo escamotage il salvataggio dei protagonisti sarebbe stato alquanto difficile dato che per loro il tempo scorreva milioni di volte più lentamente rispetto ai salvatori che avrebbero dovuto aspettare anni per ottenere una loro reazione.
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I'm a sucker for time travel movies anyway, but Time Trap is actually pretty good for a the kind of cheaply-made SF that ends up on Netflix. A cast of characters are investigating a system of caves where time doesn't flow at the normal rate, and at first, it plays like a horror film. We've got disposable teens in a dark environment, they might start dropping like flies at any moment, even some knowing nods at Blair Witch Project. And they're initially a little slow to catch up to the audience in terms of understanding and accepting what's going on. And then things start to get loopy and it turns into well-produced science-fiction, and it's no longer going where you think it's going. It's never going to win prizes for dialog or acting, but it leans into its premise 100%, which I was expecting. I may even be designed that way, so as to create cheap cop-out expectations and then subvert them. After all, you're pretty convinced it's just a stupid slasher film dressed up as time travel until things get more interesting.Minamu
Pretty cool movie if you remove 95% of all dialogue and character interactions.NevertrustGoogle
Cool concept, bad film. There is obviously the bad dialogue, much of the film being boring and of course they broke the golden rule of not casting teenagers in these types of film.DisneyStitch
I think this just might be low budget B-movie sci-fi at its absolute best. The premise does a decent job of roping you in and it only gets better from there. Dialog was cringey at some points and was the one and only sore point for me. Could have been cleaned up really easily. It doesn't explain everything, but is presented in such a way that it doesn't need to and still makes sense with a little imagination from the viewer. Full props to whoever came up with this one.DaniloFreiles
Film bellissimo. Consigliato a tutti gli amanti del genere fantascientifico (o Sci-Fi).L'unico animale che ricordo di aver visto è un cane, però non mi sembra di averlo visto stressato.
L'unica cosa che non mi ha convinto è stata
stickyfloor
Seriously?! This movie is not a masterpiece, but seriously?! It's not that bad, a surprise almost. Seriously, you gotta love the dialog.