Review of Timequest

Timequest (2000)
5/10
Interesting and promising story deserved more than this crappy movie...
5 May 2005
I find the story intriguing, and that's the only positive thing about this movie that I can say. In short: The actors are obviously not talented and show a really bad performance, the sets are simple, the computer-animated scenes (Airplanes) are of a crappy quality, and most of all the directing is crap. I hope that no studio ever starts a Robert Dyke project again, cause this was one lousy job. Although he tried to hide his non-talent with some anti-chronological chaos in editing, this only confuses viewers. If it wasn't for that directing trick there wouldn't be anything left to think about while watching the movie.

I saw that Robert Dyke not only directed the movie, but also co-wrote the story. I hope next time he writes a nice story, he hires a more talented screenwriter and takes the result to a big (professional) studio.

About the story: It's about JFK, who is visited by a time-traveler (from the future of course) on the day he would have been assassinated in Dallas. He warns him for this assassination, so he survives that day. From that day on, new history will be written, and things change. The accent of the story from there lies more on the fascination of the Kennedy's for the mysterious time traveler than on the events that occur in the rest of JFK's life, and how different they are from how they are written in our current known history.

It's a thrown away opportunity to deliver a solid B-movie, with a bigger budget and some more film time it could have been good!

It's actually the kind of movie where after 20 minutes you say to your self: 'This sucks, I'm gonna watch something else, maybe Jerry Springer is on. Well okay, I'll watch another 5 minutes to see where the story goes'. And after that 5 minutes you watch another 5, and another 5 and so on. So the story stays intriguing until the dissatisfying end.
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