Los Cronocrímenes (Timecrimes) (2007)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 9
Timecrimes is a low-budget thriller that's well-crafted and loaded with dark humor and bizarre twists.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 4
Timecrimes is a low-budget thriller that's well-crafted and loaded with dark humor and bizarre twists.
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An ordinary guy takes an extraordinary step through time in this science fiction thriller. Hector (Karra Elejalde) is spending a few days in the countryside with his girlfriend, Clara (Candela Fernández), when he sees something that catches his attention while playing with his binoculars. Looking at a nearby house near a wooded area, Hector spies a beautiful woman taking her clothes off, and decides to take a stroll and give her a closer look. However, when he arrives at the house several
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All Critics (72) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (9) | DVD (4)
Very cool.
Top CriticThe key here is to keep things moving without letting the logical (or illogical) complications weigh down the action, and [director] Vigalondo does this well.
The director operates his metaphysical contraption with enough wit to jolt away your skepticism.
The modest satisfactions of Timecrimes come down to a protagonist divided against himself.
Timecrimes is like a temporal chess game with nudity, voyeurism and violence, which makes it more boring than most chess games but less boring than a lot of movies.
The idea isn't bad, and Vigalondo makes the pretzel logic of the situation lucid, but he doesn't have the chops to give the tale the suspense and humor it needs.
Hector's insane time-travel journey is an excellent example of high-concept sci-fi.
Watching "Timecrimes" is like stumbling in a pitch-black haunted house. Hitting walls where paths should be is fun, and time-travel tropes of choice versus fate are inventively goosed. Even with five minutes left, it could conclude in any number of ways.
The idyllic but mundane world of the film's opening segues smoothly into a sequence out of a highly intelligent slasher film, before finally settling into its niche as a darkly funny, and at times mildly disturbing, sci-fi thriller.
That rarest of rare things: an intelligent time-travel movie that actually holds together on closer examination.
While I enjoyed the film a great deal, I honestly wonder if there'd be this amount of hoopla if the picture, say, starred a yamhead like Val Kilmer and was set in New Jersey.
A smart, occasionally thrilling science fiction tale...
A tight little movie where every setup is paid off
As a director, Vigalondo sweeps you up into his tale and keeps you running at what seems like full speed toward the finish line.
Nacho Vigalondo's bleak time-travel thriller... [chronicles the travails of a] classic film noir schmuck: No matter what he does, sooner or later fate will stick out her foot and trip him up.
His film is satisfying in its clever construction and vivid style.
The first feature by a promising young director who doesn't know how to recapture the hare he has let loose.
A film that exemplifies the popular artistic notion of inescapable tragic destiny.
An enterprising Spanish time-travel thriller, that's light on DeLoreans and lightning bolts, but heavy on fiendish cross-currents of temporal interaction.
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Foreign Titles
- Timecrimes (Los Cronocrimenes) (DE)
- Timecrimes (Los Cronocrimenes) (UK)
