Time Cut - Film Review

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High school senior, Lucy Field, grew up in the shadow of her older sister, Summer, who was murdered in her final year of high school, 20 years earlier, by a serial killer known as the Sweetly Slasher. When visiting the scene of the crime on the anniversary of her sister's death, Lucy stumbles across a time machine which transports her back to 2003, a few days before Summer's death. Lucy has a chance to prevent Summer's murder, but who knows what consequences there might be for changing the past.

Time Cut (2024), is an American slasher movie. It stars Madison Bailey (from Creepshow and Outer Banks) as Lucy, and Antonia Gentry (from Ginny and Georgia) as Summer. Griffin Gluck (from Locke and Key and Tall Girl) is Quinn, a gifted physics student who helps Lucy with the time machine. All three are doing their absolute best with the script they were given, and I hope they were well paid.

I love a time travel story, so I had high hopes about Time Cut, but found it disappointing. It starts out fairly promising, with a slightly different take on the usual Back to the Future trope, blending it with a slasher movie, but the end result isn't a good example of either genre. The scenes with the slasher aren't clever or well-shot, and just having characters repeatedly say that a place is creepy is not a substitute for actually building some tension. The sci-fi elements are glossed over, and while I don't mind not knowing how exactly how the time machine works there should at least have been some background information about how its creator came to build it and what happens when it is used.

Without wishing to give spoilers the plot is full of holes and the ending felt rushed and far too cutesy for my taste. For a story centred around a tragedy, there is not much emotion involved.

Just as an aside, the fact that this movie is about travelling 20 years into the past to 2003 breaks my Gen X brain because I am just not ready to be nostalgic about the early 2000s. But carry on, filmmakers, while I crumble into dust and blow away on the breeze.

Time Cut is a disappointing sci-fi/horror movie. I'd recommend only watching it if you are bored or actually feeling nostalgic about 2003, although even then you'd be better off just putting on some Avril Lavigne and battling your Beyblades or something. There are better movies out there and life is short.





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