To be generous, this is an admirable attempt to make a brainy science fiction film on a low budget, limited cast, and probably during the pandemic (subtitle should be Everybody’s Gone to the Pandemic, perhaps). But I’m not going to be generous because this is a tedious bore that goes nowhere for a very long time and ultimately ends up nowhere too.

The film is about a woman who wakes up tied to a chair and gagged. And apparently shifting between realities. And in a time loop as if the multiverse wasn’t enough sci-fi for ya. She manages to escape but continuously winds up back in that damn chair… but each loop she seems to get further – out of the attic, into the house, into the car, etc. – while also seeing ghosts of her past loops. Loops that she maybe doesn’t remember very clearly or at at all… or maybe eventually does.

This movie is frustratingly slow and repetitive. Yes, I was curious to see where it was going… and my curiosity was in no way paid off. She manages to get further and further away from her origin point only to snap back. And I imagine we’re supposed to feel frustrated because she is frustrated but they take it too far. At some point it has to start explaining itself or at least offer some crumbs of details. I guess, again to be charitable, it does more-or-less tell us a few tidbits but most of those were already drip-fed to us via scrambled narration in the first twenty minutes.

And I rented this for the intriguing concept but also because Sir Ian McKellen is in it. And I was curious why he would pick this unknown movie to star in… only to have him on screen for about thirty seconds in interview format. So tip of the cap to their oh-so-clever misdirection… they and Sir Ian are getting the honorary Bruce Willis Con Job award (beating out even Mr. Willis this year).

This is not worth the bother of watching since it will bring you nothing. None of the intriguing ideas are worth the build-up or the pay-off. None of the ideas are original or creative. Skip.

Score: 58