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Watched With: Jordan, Amberly

Saw it again tonight. It is neat. Duncan Jones's second film after the brilliant indie sci-fi Moon. This is another sci-fi head spinner but this time he has a slightly larger budget thanks to some studio backing. And it's an impressive looking film and there are quite a few neat directorial flourishes I appreciated.

Jake Gyllenhaal has a hard job to do and he does it very well indeed. The script also has a few things to juggle but it holds together surprisingly well, at least while you are watching, the logistics of the ending may leave you with more questions than answers but I feel it makes up for that by being emotionally satisfying.

If this were strictly a time travel film I probably wouldn't make that allowance, but the strange quantum mechanics of whatever it is they are doing is kinda vague and in some ways it's left up to you to decide what you think the reality of the situation is. It's murky stuff.

Jeffrey Wright was a bit weird to me, he has a very odd speech pattern. But Vera Farmiga and Michelle Monaghan are great as usual.

Overall I found it a neat little sci-fi thriller with some cool ideas but that will leave you with more questions than you might like. But the emotional story at it's core worked wonders for me so I've forgiven it any extraneous loose threads, intentional or otherwise.