Madelines is about a married couple working on time travel in their backyard shed. When the wife – Madeline – gets tipsy and decides on human trials, a bug in her code results in one Madeline appearing in their back yard each day. The only way to prevent multiple Madelines in the time line is, of course, to murder the copies as they show up.

This is a comedy. And it’s an interesting low budget sci-fi time travel movie. But it’s premise results in a sense of humor that’s dark and bloody… but also whimsical? It’s an odd one that won’t appeal to everyone.

It doesn’t always work and probably runs too long (and it’s only 80 minutes) but there’s a nugget of something neat. It develops its ideas and goes with a second Big Idea about half-way through. It’s not a great film but it’s interesting. I just wish it figured out more interesting things to do with its big ideas. And that it came up with a better ending.

Score: 70