‘2067’ gets lost in time travel

Posted on October 9, 2020

By MARK VIOLA

Time travel is one of the hardest things to get right when writing a story. Few, if any, ever manage to do it, especially when it comes to movies. Frankly, when going into a movie about time travel, I accept that the time travel isn’t going to completely make sense.

The sooner you accept that, the sooner you can stop worrying and enjoy the movie. Even classic time-travel movies like “Terminator” and “Back to the Future” have unexplainable lapses in logic if you think about them for more than a few seconds. The reason we still enjoy those movies is because the time travel mumbo-jumbo is surrounded by compelling characters and interesting characters. As such, not everything relies on the time travel making sense.

Unfortunately, “2067,” the new sci-fi film that hit video on demand (VOD) last week, commits the cardinal sin when it comes to writing a time travel story. It puts the time travel front and center, so when the inevitable logic faults and plot holes arrive, they are right in center focus instead of the characters and the overall story.

There are things to like about the movie, including a solid lead performance from Kodi Smit-McPhee (“X-Men: Apocalypse”), as well as quality set design and special effects that look quite good considering what I expect was a relatively low budget.

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