Don't Let Go (2019)
Directed by Jacob Aaron Estes
A detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.
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From the looks of it, director Jacob Estes is deploying inspiration from Gregory Hoblit’s Frequency , a movie that uses the conception of time travel to layout an unforeseen situation where a man in 1999 is able to communicate to his father in 1969, even though his father died when the man was only 6-years-old.
Jacob Aaron Estes’ new movie Relive feels like that show mixed with Frequency, the Dennis Quaid/Jim Caviezel movie in which father and son communicate across time.
You’re probably going to read other reviews that make comparisons of Don’t Let Go with Frequency (2000) and See You Yesterday (2019, currently streaming on Netflix) which I won’t make because I never saw either one of them.
Think the Dennis Quaid-starring Frequency meets Christopher Nolan’s Memento .
As thus with shades of the Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel talk across time flick "Frequency," the filmmaker opts for the confluence of intersecting timelines.
This is remarkably similar to the plot of Gregory Hoblit’s 2000 supernatural thriller Frequency , although that movie was rated a family friendly PG-13 and this one is a clear R both for its bloodiness (including way too many shots of dead dogs) and for its language (if you want to see the girl from A Wrinkle in Time call someone a “stupid motherfucker,” here’s your chance).
Don’t Let Go is superficially reminiscent of Source Code and Deja Vu in how it plays with the storyline and tweaks viewer expectations.
Ditch The Butterfly Effect notion, Don’t Let Go is more set on giving Uncle Jack the chance to redeem himself and potentially save his niece with very few restrictions.
“Don’t Let Go” is definitely not going to bump “Looper” or (the underrated) “The Butterfly Effect” out of the Top 10, but when it comes to time-travel plots, it’s more surprising and solidly thought through than 90% of sci-fi movies.