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This is just one of those films that's enjoyable for it's overall execution. While it's nothing particularly epic in scale, it's a great little geek culture flick , having to do with time travel, and thus referencing quite a few time travel movies, and oh yes, some easter eggs as well. In fact, in one way, this review has an easter egg to it. Not hard to find if you know where to look.

​Anyway, we're introduced to Ray (Chris O'Dowd), who has just lost his job, hosting a theme park attraction dressed as some kinda space guy, relatively resembling a captain from 'Star Trek'. Down on his luck, he meets up with his friends, Pete (Dean Lennox Kelly) and Toby (Marc Wootton) for a drink at the local pub.

There, Ray meets an American girl named Cassie (Anna Faris) who claims to be a time traveler who travels through points in time, repairing "time leaks". While the story starts off unbelievable, things start to unfold in strange, scary, funny and interesting ways, affecting the trio of drinking buddies.

Again, this isn't one of those big titles, but it's actually a lot of fun, and well written enough to the point where the script tightens up the time travel aspect within it. For example, in one time, we may see a setting and see, let's say, a glass tip over. Later on, you find out why that glass may have tipped over, due to timelines crossing. Think 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabahn' time travel rules.

On top of everything, the film has a great sense of humor to it, as the British have a great tendency to write. This one comes from Jamie Mathieson, who wrote mainly for television, contributing to things like 'Doctor Who' and 'Being Human'. Well, this title represents his writing debut. The director is Gareth Carrivick, know, again, mainly for TV, but with titles more like 'The Vicar of Dibley' and 'Beautiful People'. Sadly, he passed in 2010, making this his final contribution. Definitely not a bad note to go out on.

So check this one out if you consider yourself in with geek culture, and like a good British comedy. You'll be checking out a bit of the lesser known British talent out there (I'm mostly talking to North America here), and if nothing else, it's just a fun time for a good laugh.

4/5

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