Time Lapse - Tight Little Thriller

I always hate it when something I've read in someone else's review gets stuck in my head and that's all I can think of when I try to review a film myself. But, there's no other way of describing 'Time Lapse' – someone else wrote that it's basically 'Shallow Grave, but with time travel.' That's basically it in a nutshell.

Three housemates (instead of finding a bag full of money) find a time travel machine in the flat next door. Rather than sending them naked into the middle of Los Angeles or thirty years in the past by speeding up to eighty-eight miles an hour, this one is a little more 'low key.' It simply takes a photo of your front room twenty-four hours from now. Hardly as spectacular as sending a cyborg to kill the mother of your enemy, but it does work out pretty well if you bet on the horses and can now let yourself know every last winner.

And then they lived happily ever after. Only that would be a pretty dull film. Guess what – playing with time has consequences and, sooner or later, the body count is going to rise.

That's all you really need to know about the film. It's one of those stories where you only get the enjoyment of watching it once and not knowing what's going to happen. There are a few nice twists and turns along the way, so saying too much about the story will give those away. The actors all do their jobs pretty well. There's no real stand-out performances, but if you're looking for a nice little thriller and don't mind a small dose of science fiction, give this one a try.

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that