Against the Clock

This is another film where someone is conditioned to have a great memory and put together all the data inside their brain and there are no false memories. A CIA agent, Kelly Chandler (Mark Polish) is to gather intelligence on a massive terrorist attack which will be 12 cities across the world. And then the coma... Both the CIA and his wife try to extract the data from his brain and they work both against and with each other. Now the film is mostly the interactions that are mixed with the confused thoughts of Kelly in a coma which are disjointed and repetitive. They are also meaningless to the viewer. It was overdone and a poor way to show his confused mind. The script needed editing, to say the least. The distorted man and the distorted voice was a low budget waste. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

I see a lot of reviews where people are saying they only made it twenty minutes through the film before shutting it off. Personally I think it isn't fair to rate a film if you haven't sat through the entire thing, because some movies can start on the wrong foot and wind up being decent or even good by the end. On the other hand, I can see how visually the editing would be too jarring for a lot of people to sit through. It was very disjointed and highly repetitive, making the film feel much longer than it's average running time allowed. The plot most definitely could've been flushed out better and made more exciting if half the film wasn't, as people mentioned, the lead actor mostly running and tripping over himself over and over again. That being said, I did sit through all of it and understood the overarching plot. If you can make it through, the ending does sort of put you in a sort of Inception mindset where you're left wondering what was actually real and what was dream. It's confusing at best though and misses its mark, lacking the impact that Inception had mostly because, well, there just wasn't enough information about the leading woman to get you there. You're sort of just left going, "Wait...so was she the one the entire time or...? I don't get it." I do want to give Justin Bartha kudos though. Out of all the characters he was the one I was honestly most sympathetic towards and the one who made the most sense to me. And he had actual character growth. They sort of left his whole fate very open ended though...if he even existed in the first place since we were left pondering what was real and what wasn't. That left me more than a little disappointed, the way his arc just sort of cut off like he didn't matter when he was the most interesting one. So yeah, four stars because Justin Bartha was great, and some of the graphics were kind of cool to look at. But negatives on overly choppy editing, execution of the plot, and character development for everyone else. It was a unique idea but somehow became dull and repetitive and just long onscreen. And just plain hard on the eyes to watch.

I tried sticking with this but it gave me a headache. It was completely nonsensical. It's fine to have a few of these disjointed weird scenes in a movie to portray some emotion or dream sequence, but the entire movie like that is just too much. You can't follow what's going on, it's just really an unpleasant experience to watch and you don't even manage to pick up any interesting plot from it, and what plot there is, just isn't worth the torment of sitting through weird flashes and CGI and random loud noises. It's the movie equivalent of going on an acid trip in an abattoir.

I have no idea how I even made it 3 minutes in. I have ADD, but these quick scenes with random effects just made me dizzy and confused. I was literally feeling nauseous. They were also unnecessary and distracting. That's why I do not recommend to even attempt to watch this movie, and recognize it's existence.

I understood the movie, but without the constant jumping around from location to location, all this could be edited out and it would only be a half hour movie. It was pointless to watch an hour of "being lost." We the audience get it. It wasn't a very good story as the editing killed it.

Incoherent plot with an unbearable screenplay; visually despicable, annoyingly disjointed, unintelligible, headach-inducing, nauseating, nonsensically insulting and barely tolerable for about 20 minutes max, at which point had to terminate it with prejudice to preserve self respect.

Honestly the worst most annoying movie ive ever watched. I couldnt finish it after really really trying too and i cant remember the last time i didnt watch a movie start to finish. The annoying constant ringing sound is enough to make you wanna vomit. Suuuuper garbage. No real plot. A bunch of high paid actors so how is it so trash?

Went to see this film because of Andy Garcia, his appearance in this movie, however was a little as a supporting acting to a main male character and his name cannot be listed as a second one, unfortunately. The story line is not bad but this movie is nor possible to watch due to massive occurrence of flashing images. After half an hour I got sick and hearly left but decided just to listen this movie, a new experience. If you require a headache it's your kind of movie.

I finished this monstrosity of a movie only because I like to finish what I start, but I felt like I ran 2 marathons back to back afterwards. 30 minutes into the movie so much happened incoherently that it was almost like watching 2 hours. I kinda got what the movie was trying to portray but its delivery sucked. It was so choppy that I thought I was losing my intelligence. The acting was mediocre at best. Andy Garcia shoulda pass on this project. All he did was yell. There was very little if any, character development. I'm not one to tell people what to do, but skip this one.

This picture is the worst i have seen yet dianna agron this well this picture had quite can be good