Synchronicity (2015)
Directed by Jacob Gentry
A daring physicist travels into the past to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.
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What critics compared Synchronicity to
Synchronicity has some superb inspirations - the intricately nested timelines of Primer , the dusty, DIY science fiction of Alien , the vintaged futuristic anywhere city of Blade Runner and Dark City - but it's also very much its own thing.
On par with films like Timecrimes, Predestination or even Primer to a degree, Synchronicity once again proves that you don’t need a huge budget to create a compelling cinematic experience.
Also, this isn’t like Primer and up its own ass; as technical as the jargon gets you will always be able to comprehend the gist of what is actually being explained or discussed.
Writer-director Jacob Gentry, who made the middle third of the underrated exquisite-corpse horror film The Signal , appears to have boned up on his Heinlein and Bradbury and Carruth, the last of whose Primer remains a blueprint for any hungry young filmmaker looking to blow minds on a budget.
Think of the cut-rate thrillers, from “Primer” to the Spanish “Time Crimes,” to say nothing of the scads of budget-conscious TV episodes and entire series that have managed something interesting in the genre without “Back to the Future” bucks.
Compared to Primer for instance, which was so exhaustively invested in the intricacies of time travel, Synchronicity is more often just long winded.
Synchronicity has some superb inspirations - the intricately nested timelines of Primer , the dusty, DIY science fiction of Alien , the vintaged futuristic anywhere city of Blade Runner and Dark City - but it's also very much its own thing.
The aesthetic feels like a mash-up of Blade Runner meets Dark City , giving this futuristic world a nice sense of timelessness to it.