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Time saving
Netflix
Netflix released a new horror movie that landed at No. 2 on its top 10 list the day after Halloween, and unlike some pretty good Netflix original horror movies, Time cut is…very bad.
If you want to know if Time Cut is worth watching, the answer is overwhelmingly no. It’s very bad. Trust me. Or critics. Or public. Here’s the summary:
“A teenager in 2024 accidentally time travels to 2003, days before a masked killer kills her sister. Can she change the past without destroying the future?
It’s a strange concept, as this is clearly a film aimed at teenagers, many of whom weren’t even born in 2003, and people who were I was in high school in 2003, like me, I think this looks too childish and it’s also a terrible, half-hearted attempt to recreate 2003. You can throw in some Uggs and iPods, but the atmosphere isn’t there. It just feels completely wrong.
The film has a dismal 14% Rotten Tomatoesas close to as low as we see Netflix originals go, and a similarly poor audience score of 40% and a 5/10 on IMDB. The film feels like one of those ‘algorithmic’ Netflix films where they use actors from other popular projects and see if it works. In this case they are Madison Bailey of Outer Banks, Antonia Gentry of Ginny and Georgia and Griffin Gluck of Locke and Key. Like it’s so clearly transparent that this was created by a focus group that tried to gather actors from the most popular teen-oriented shows and make this concept work. That is not the case.
Time saving
Rotten Tomatoes
Here are some critic reviews of Time Cut:
- AV club – “It’s a glancing blow from a snoozy slasher that’s much more interested in a 2000s comedy rewound, meeting somewhere in the unenthusiastic middle.”
- DeWrap – “The time travel material is used for funny gags for a few minutes and then the film shows no interest whatsoever in all the worms it has been unpacked into. It’s a lot of ‘what if’ and not a lot of ‘then what’.”
- Guardian – “There’s way too much focus on the minutiae of time travel, as if we expect or want a movie like this to be rooted in any real science, and… there’s a laziness in the way it handles the simple slasher beats. ”
It’s hard to make standout horror films in a crowded field. It’s hard to make time travel movies that are even remotely coherent. It may be almost impossible to combine them, and this film feels like it didn’t really have a chance. Skip it and watch the much better film, Woman of the Hour, still at #1 and with a 90% rating on Netflix’s top 10 list.
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