The 2014 film "Continuum" reviews are called a lightweight fantastic action film with a weightless raid of a thriller. Under it, you can nostalgic about your impressions of watching “The Butterfly Effect” and get acquainted with a strong, thoughtful, ultimately interesting story. Combining the presentation and ideas of the Chronicle, the debutant director Dean Israelite, along with the creative duo of screenwriters Jason Pagan, Andrew Duchman, tried to convey to the viewer the result of such a combination, but without too much drama.
A curious approach to the idea
It is worth noting that Continuum is a film in itself original and good. In the ideological, plot and acting components. The reason for this is a curious non-standard approach to the very idea of a time machine, which is implemented using the genre of moquimentaries. The shooting is supposedly by a layman with a hand-held camera. This technique, firstly, automatically rejects all claims to the operator Matthew J. Lloyd and the quality of the image broadcast in the frame, and secondly, it saturates with realism and conveys the youthful spirit of rebellion. The fantastic thriller “Continuum” is sometimes criticized by the fact that the creators paid a lot of attention to the life and life of the central characters, having done before a teenage film, originally framed by a halo of science fiction. However, despite the atmosphere of youthful maximalism, the movie turned out to be quite friendly with causal relationships and logic.
Plot
The plot storyline of the movie "Continuum" reviews are unanimously called too long. The beginning of the picture introduces the viewer to the main characters. These are high school graduates - the young genius David (Johnny Weston) and his friends: Quinn (Sam Lerner), Jesse (Sofia Black), Adam (Allen Evangelistan), and later the sister of the protagonist is cutie Christie (Virginia Gardner). Once, while sorting out the trash in his father’s workshop, the young inventor David discovers parts and drawings that turned out to be parts of a real time machine. Together, friends assemble and configure the device, but it turns out that it moves exclusively to the past and only for a short period of several days. However, this is quite enough for young people. Making time jumps, they manage to correct their marks, win a significant amount in the lottery and begin to enjoy life in every imaginable way.
Effects
The further development of the events of the plot of the film “Continuum” is called by the reviewers as instructive and already gloomy. David manages to improve the car, and the youth as a friendly company goes to the past for a slightly longer period, to come off at a rock festival. And here the “butterfly effect”, already known to the viewer, makes itself felt - constant movements in time can lead to serious problems, a disaster, which is not easy to fix. How the story ended, the viewer learns by viewing the Continuum to the end. Reviews about the film are useless to read, they retain intrigue and do not contain spoilers.
Result
Due to the fact that the cinema is abundantly saturated with the classical methods of American cinema, something serious, fundamental, as in Interstellar, one should not expect. The success of the director can already be considered that the action present in the film does not conflict with the romantic component of the plot, without which not a single Hollywood teenage movie, no matter what genre it belongs to, can do. As a result, the debut project of Dean Israelite can really be called one of the most fascinating youth fantastic films of the last decade.
“Continuum” (the description of the film confirms what was said) made a feasible contribution to the development of the subgenre of pseudo-documentary cinema in a new direction. Despite the fact that the logic of the story is sometimes unreasonable, and the scientific delights of the ordinary viewer are difficult to understand, not to mention their connection with real scientific achievements and research, the film looks lively, cheerful, and sometimes even penetrating. The main thing is not to take the tape seriously, look for logic, notice kinolapy and so on. Then the viewer will definitely enjoy watching.