Primer

USA 2004
produced by
Shane Carruth
directed by Shane Carruth
starring Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyahya, Carrie Crawford, John Carruth, Juan Tapia, Ashley Warren, Samantha Thomson, Chip Carruth, Delaney Price, Jack Pyland, Keith Bradshaw, Ashok Upadhyahya, Brandon Blagg, Jon Cook, David Joyner, Eric De Soualhat
screenplay and music by Shane Caruth

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Rather by accident, two inventors (Shane Carruth, David Sullivan) invent a time machine, and at first they use it for their personal gain, like maiking big profits at the stock exchange and betting on horses and the like - then though they learn that someone showed up at one of their friend's party with a shotgun, and they want to prevent that ... but only make things worse (originally the guy only showed up with a shotgun, after their interference he actually shot someone), and now they are desperately trying to set things right again. Once they have done that, their friendship and collaboration comes to an end, as one of them (Sullivan) wants to give up the time travel concept completely and destroy their timemachine in order to prevent them from creating one (temporal) paradoxon after the other, while the other (Carruth) wants to go into mass production.

An attempt to make an intelligent film about time travel - that's from the start drowned in techno-babble (it takes about half an hour until even the sci-fi savvy audience gets a clue that the film's actually about timetravelling) while completely lacking in dramatic scenes (caused by a tiny budget) which is bridged by tons and tons of dialogue that doesn't always lead somewhere. In the end, one actually can't be 100% sure what happened in the movie's less than 80 minutes of running time. That all said, Primer, though it doesn't live up to its promise, is not a terrible film, the actors are rather good and the directorial effort is at least ambitious - it just isn't a good film either.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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