Canada 2016 95m      Directed by: Steve Austin Stihl, Ty Reynolds. Starring: Jacqueline Bourque, Zach Chorney, Jesse Collin, John Cross, Darcy Ellison, Brandon Marc Gagne, Britta Greer, Dawn Harvey, Stuart William James, Brit Kennedy, Keith Kollee, Reuben O. McDonald, Bob Schmaus. Music by: Peter D'Amico.
During the darkest days of the Cold War, a consortium of corporations and government agencies conducted secret research into time travel. Decades later, a couple of backyard mechanics uncover a smuggled cache of documents from those officially-forgotten experiments. Hacking together their own device tests their know-how, their dreams of sudden wealth, and their friendship. Can they survive the limits of dwelling in the past?
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Reset is a lower budget time travel movie in the "Primer" genre, itself a testament to extreme low budget sci-fi filmmaking, but unlike Primer, you can actually make sense of the time travel conundrums of Reset if you pay a bit of attention as it rolls along. The technical aspects of the film seem solid to me and the acting is solid enough for what they paid the cast you'd be hard pressed to find much fault when adjusted for such vagaries. The ending is a bit of a hanging curiosity. I believe the guy who was jumping back to relive those months with his girlfriend ended up 'trapped' back with her when his friend unplugged the machine on his way out after looking at the log book, but I'm sure there are other interpretattions.
Review by timfuller_98 from the Internet Movie Database.