A GREAT MOVIE!!! How is this not getting more attention? A Dutch/German film, a very cool little twisted thriller...one of the best movies twisted thrillers I've seen in a long time. With time time loop movies all the rage (ala SOURCE CODE with Jake Gyllenhaul which is coming out next year) this is a movie that does something a little different and does it in a very cool way
The story: DAVID is cheating on his wife, and while out getting some nookie his daughter falls into the pool and drowns. David is devestated. His wife leaves him. His life is in shambles. Then one night while wandering he finds a strange door. He walks through it and it is daylight. More thna that he has been transported to an alternate universe where it is five years earlier. Now he is able to save his daughter, but afterwards he is surprised by this world's version and David and he accidentally kills him. Now he has to cover up what he has done so he can stay in this world where his daughter is still alive and he is still with his wife. Except of course covering it up isn't easy, especially when his daughter is the one person to recognize that he is not in fact her actual father.
Was it good?
GREAT MOVIE! Not only is this a nice little twisted thriller, but this movie has what most thriller don't -- EMOTION. The scenes of the man losing his daughter are painful. Then when he is able to save her, and then that gets flipped around when he accidentally kills himself and then when his daughter knows he's not the real father and he has to explain what happened (without wanting to tell her the truth). AMAZING STUFF!
There are some other great twists that come about later. Not only does he have to cover up his crime and try to win over his daughter, but he has to break things off with his mistress without his wife realizing what is happening and then it turns out he isn't the only one able to use the door, which adds complication onto complication.
If I have any problems it's with the third act which gets a little too plot-y and goesa bit over the top and doesn't deliver the emotional punch that it should. Otherwise, this was a knick out film for me.
*** RECOMMEND (and then some!!!) ****
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