
A new film by Hannah MacPherson dubbed “Time Cut,” released on Netflix, is said to have been produced long before “Totally Killer” came out. So, however, it is unavoidable that this film follows in this film’s time-jumping footsteps. However, this film does not have to be held in judgment because another film is better. If that movie never existed heck, if time jump movies in general never existed this would still be a bad movie. The comparisons do not help and yet nothing could.
Madison Bailey has had such an effect in the hit Netflix series “Outer Banks” that one would be under no illusions that she was able to handle a movie. However, MacPherson has no idea how to direct her here and the result is a movie with a truly lost, tragic performance in the lead role. As Lucy Field, Bailey has confused, scared, and scared confusion; 2.5 expressions. Most of the time she gives the impression of being in a state of ‘this could be a better movie’.
The year is now 2024 and Lucy is an ordinary girl who’s probably around her mid-20s. The only notable thing is that her sister Summer (Antonia Gentry, probably the only one who is actually allowed to be somewhat charismatic) had been murdered two decades ago. And after the death of Summer, her parents grieved for her so much that they even went to the extent of going for IVF to get a replacement for her. (This matters later. Believe me.)
Lucy finds herself in a truly bizarre circumstance. She goes all the way back to the time before her sister was killed in order to track down Sweetly’s serial killer. The only problem is that, as the interminable debate as to what precisely we can learn from “Back to the Future” and the “Time Toaster” segment from “The Simpsons” make clear, if Summer never dies than it creates a desire in her parents to create Lucy. Would you go back in time and save your sister if it meant you would have never been born? It is interesting how a film like this could broach such an emotional gauntlet, but MacPherson and his co-writer, Michael Kennedy, share little interest in going there.
They just create unreal threats which they don’t even commit to, and this leads to the most ridiculous conclusion I have ever witnessed, with people smiling and laughing as if the movie is a B picture that finished shooting without any film inside a camera.
Most viewers will stop before reaching that conclusion. As Lucy is in the year 2003 while listening to “So Yesterday” by Hilary Duff, admiring the clothes of that particular decade, “Time Cut” does exactly what one expects of a film like it. It’s the kind of film that feels like wasting time because it has no plot twists or emotional engagement whatsoever. Griffin Gluck, who was talented in “American Vandal” (I don’t remember when was the last time I laughed that much), is underutilized playing a dull role here where he takes no central action, and same goes to the rest of the cast. In fact, the majority of the Herald News cast should be grateful they are not the most talented in the world. Furthermore, when a whole ensemble stumbles through the film delivering fake and corny lines in the most unappealing manner, there is no way of escaping which is a default of directing an inability to create an exciting world surrounding the characters or to make the characters do anything interesting in this world.
I do have a recurring theme which I thought was quite terrible during my time watching “Time Cut.” And I enjoy stupid concept horror movies like these. For some reason, I have gotten used to how every year somebody discovers “Happy Death Day” and that now appears okay to me. It wasn’t time traveling, but that dumb “Freaky” was enjoyable. It’s not that there’s a lot of “fun” in this part or in this show, it’s more as if everyone is just doing their job. I was intrigued to watch another movie where the characters jump through time only this time round the movie had a twist. To be honest, after this one, I just wished that I had the time back which I wasted.
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