Review of Primer

Primer (2004)
3/10
Not worth it.
22 April 2006
Warning: Spoilers
When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What is the day after this day? Got the answer yet?...No? Well, if you don't have the patience or the interest to work through this, then you won't care for this movie. The movie is about a couple of engineers who stumble onto an elementary method of time travel while working on another project in their garage on their off time. The plot then literally grows as convoluted and hard to understand as the previous question. Now, I'm a big fan of sci-fi movies that present a challenging plot, that make you think. The BIG problem with this one is that to really understand it, you have to watch it several times, and even take notes, but it's very slow and excruciatingly boring - almost the entire movie consists of two people talking and standing around, so it's not really worth the effort to anyone but the most die-hard geek. It also suffers a lot from poor production values, as it was done as an indie film on a shoe-string budget (I read $7k), and has the dismal look and sound of a student film.
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