Alistair1918 |
USA • 2015 • 86m •
  • Directed by: Annie K. McVey. • Starring: Amy Motta, Guy Birtwhistle, Bonnie Hallman, Tom Cano, Devin Schiro, Annie K. McVey..  A World War One soldier accidentally time travels to present day Los Angeles and struggles to find a way back to his wife in 1918.
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Review:
This story fails to convince us that they're dealing with anything resembling the consequences of time travel, for themselves or the man who is the film's focus. Mostly, the cast and Alistair wander around Los Angeles with a (handheld) camera pointed at their quaint English accented subject, unphased by the enormity of his situation or the consequences of what they'd have us believe they're dealing with. The actors do their best with poorly conceived material that lets them down at nearly every turn. The director lacks imagination in solving the many story and plot problems.
The introduction of a French time travel scientist who is suddenly able to solve the problem of controlling time travel, merely because the story has her meet Alistair, shows just how clumsily conceived the writing and this project was. Alistair 1918 was a challenge that the script and story developers had neither the imagination nor skill to tackle in a meaningful way. Instead of providing a climax that we can at least suspend our disbelief for, the script collapses into horrible cliche's. It's about as convincing as a Days of Our Lives storyline, and offers scientific solutions and effects that make Dr Who look like genuine quantum physics. I mean, he (the time traveler) stands in a bucket of water to return to 1918.
Review by diogenes-858-449167 from the Internet Movie Database.
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