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Through some weird anomaly, Matt (Ron Basch), who only wanted to fall
asleep in front of the TV, suddenly finds his TV is showing images from
his own apartment from 30 years earlier - which is weird, but the weirder
thing still is that the occupant from 30 years ago, Justine (Sarah
Silverthorne), is able to see him on the TV as well ... and after a period
where they are both properly freaked out by this (after all, it does make
no sense, is not supposed to happen), the two start to have a good
conversation, 30 years time distance or not. Then though Matt has the idea
to look Justine up on the internet (something she's of course totally
unaware of) ... and he finds out she has been murdered on that very day
she's talking to him now - and what's worse, he sees her killer (Peter
Racanelli) entering her apartment, and now, his only link to her being the
TV, tries to warn her the best he can. Thing is, the killer is aware of
the utter anomaly of two TVs linked bridging the timespan of 30 years as
well ... and he's still around in Matt's day and age ... Ok, if
you look at Remote from a purely scientific point of view, you will
find glaring holes and nothing more, as seen as a piece of realism or
seriuos science fiction it does not work ... and at the same time, you'd
be totally missing the point, this is a film to be seen as a thriller that
works very well as a pure piece of suspense once you've accepted the
far-fetched premise and gotten yourself into the story at hand. And within
its own warped sense of reality, the film works just fine thanks to its
very stringent build-up, tense climax, and quitea few surprises down the
road. Totally worth a watch!
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