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10/10
Beautiful & Moving
daughertyeli31 January 2019
Director Jay Cheel must have a gift for finding beauty in the unexpected. Reading the synopsis, I did not think that by the end of the film I would have found something touching in a man obsessiving over replicating a film prop. A prop from a movie that affected both subjects of the film. Mr. Cheel found a way to connect and have me emotionally invested in both men.

The music is perfectly suited for every scene. The cinematography is absolutely beautiful. The way light is captured at a scene during the golden hours and reflected off bronze aluminum really stuck with me and proves the director knows exactly what he wants flowing into his camera to be captured forever.

Seeing both subjects together at a party at the end of the film and the sparkle of the tears in the eyes of Ronald Mallet lulled our some tears in my own eyes.

This is a surprisingly affective film of a very niche hobby and the plight of a man longing for his lost father. Bravo Mr. Cheel, you should be proud. I look forward to your next film.
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10/10
niosis passion
superraddad14 November 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Altho his passion over his replica kinda drags on it is needed to feel this gap a sort of dance between the 2 subjects, dr mallet wants to go back in time so badly but in the end he realizes that time travel is possible but only to move forward in time not backwards otherwise thus causing a ripple in the time space paradox .so you can can slow time down and travel faster theory is possible and proven and this is niosis only reason for his fascination with time travel to travel into the future and see how it all turns out.in the end they achieve the goals set out for them but the result don't end in there favor. i loved eery second of the film.
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6/10
The DIY project and grieving physicist
maccas-5636725 January 2019
A filmmaker's DIY project vs a grieving physicist trying to literally travel through time to see his dead father. Which do you think would be most interesting? I don't know if it was all this talk about 'time' but it felt that time certainly dragged when Rob Niosi was working on his full-scale replica time machine from the 1960 film. It's just that the vast majority of the film seemed to focus on this less interesting of the two.

Don't get me wrong, Rob Niosi's passion for his project was inspiring. The sheer effort and finances invested was jaw-dropping. But if I wanted to watch 80 minutes of DIY, I'd turn on the Lifestyle channel. The balance was out of whack.

I enjoyed all the philosophical and deep-thinking aspects of time travel in the film - even if some of the science involved was well over my head. It has made me really want to read Ronald Mallett's book, "Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality".

It's still a well-made and thought-provoking documentary - perfect for fans of 'Back to the Future', 'The Time Machine' or 'Safety Not Guaranteed'.
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