Director: Craig Singer
Year: 2022
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
While on vacation in a small town, a man and his fiancee are subject to a debilitating supernatural phenomenon where they repeat the day over and over again where they're both killed by a maniac and only he's aware of it, forcing him to find the cause of the situation to stop it from continuing.
Review:
This was a rather disappointing and underwhelming genre effort. One of the few enjoyable features here comes from the deaths that take place which reset the storyline over and over again. These are usually quite fun, resulting in some shocking ambushes with the figure emerging out of nowhere to slash her across the throat in graphic means with the way the resulting blood flow providing some solid enough gore in this type of story. The fact that they always have to happen with the ambush nature they do makes them appear out of nowhere and come off quite well which makes for a surprising turn of events as they come about in the film. With the number of times that occurs throughout here helping this even more, there's a lot to like with these scenes as a whole.
However, there are a lot of flaws that hold this one down. One of the biggest problems is the rather bizarre inability of the film to make the time-loop scenario really mean anything since this one tends to have no point in undergoing the process. Rather than present the whole scenario as a learning opportunity for him to curb his violent antics towards others that gets him into fights or his drinking that always seems to steer their relationship into the combative more than anything, this just tends to continually indulge in that behavior every time they die. This makes the eventual attack and resurrection the next day feel expected as it heads to these encounters which just grows tiresome waiting around for it to happen without a point with the amount of time it happens.
Moreover, the film also really struggles with any kind of momentum being built up beyond the bloody ambushes. The early scenes with them running around the island are dragged out way too long with scenes going on beyond their interest of their lovely-dovey relationship taking centerstage here but not doing much else with it. The constant repeating of their troubled relationship aspects that take place once the time-loop occurs is just plain uninteresting as it really struggles to make us care about the relationship at all with his noncommital to doing anything with her and just being at complete odds with everything they do which makes it hard to care what happens. Even the final twist is underwhelming here not just because of the earlier moments but it takes forever to play out, all of which bring this one down overall.
Overview: */5
A wasted promise that undermines the few enjoyable aspects here, there are way too many issues at play here which not only make this one troubled structurally but also enjoyably with the overlong and uninteresting setup. It’s really of interest mainly for those that appreciate and enjoy this kind of genre entry or are fans of the creative crew, while most others will be turned off by the flaws and should heed extreme caution with this one in favor of other features overall.
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