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 • USA • 1997 • 91m •    • Directed by: Louis Morneau. • Starring: Jim Belushi, Kylie Travis, Shannon Whirry, Frank Whaley, Jesse Borrego, M. Emmet Walsh, Sherman Howard, Guy Boyd, Kristina Coggins, Robbie Thibaut Jr., Roger Clinton. • Music by: Tim Truman.      A woman, whose car breaks down on the highway, is picked up by a crazed stranger and his obviously threatened girl friend. Despite potential escape opportunities, she stays with the couple who is involved in some kind of unexplained thievery involving a computer disk. After a series of murders, including the girl friend, the woman manages to escape to a scientific lab where time travel is being experimented with. Here she asks to go back in time to try to stop the killings. Repeated attempts results in the same deaths.
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Having the chance of re-living a period of time, to be able to change something, is not at all something new. I first saw this theme in Groundhog Day. It was the first film to debate this theme and it was a total success. Then there was an episode in the X Files with the same plot. Now it's Retroactive. The screenplayer needed something to create the possibility to use this theme. He couldn't do the same thing as in Groundhog Day, so he invented a time machine that could allow you to travel back in time. (pretty pathetic and unlikely, but actually this discovery is just an "element" needed for the well-growing of the plot, it's totally not important in the movie). And also the idea of the huge changes that keep happening depending on the most unimportant thing that you do was also seen before in the best german movie ever, Lola Rennt.
Well i'd give this movie a 6 out of 10. I can't go with more, because of everything i said before. But it's worth to watch it, you'll have an entertaining time.
Review by Mickey Knox from the Internet Movie Database.
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