Timestalker – Review

Timestalker is an unconventional, quirky, oddball and offbeat reincarnation romance. Naturally we open in a historical scene as a spinstress Agnes (Lowe) weaves thread while daydreaming about a heretic she watched get taken away by authorities. She pricks her finger. Ouch. Her dog runs off with the thread. Dammit George. It is 1688. Exciting.

As she trips twice in a field while heading over to the town gathering for the local heretic’s execution this will clearly be the highlight of her day. When the heretic, Alex (Barnard), is unmasked, Agnes finds love at first sight with this very man that is to be executed violently on 'the wheel.' Oh my. What crap timing. But how can this be?!

As Alex gives his final speech before his body is to be ripped to shreds while pleasing this bloodthirsty crowd of townsfolk, Agnes cannot reconcile with losing her love so soon! What can she do about this?! Well, what happens next could not possibly be surmised, and soon it is the year 1793 and we meet a new version of Agnes and there are other events happening. Huh? What exactly has transpired? What is going to happen now? What ails Agnes throughout the ages, and what will ever rectify it? As she meets Alex yet again, will she land this one?

Timestalker is a clever and entertaining examination at romantic life situations, choices, behavior, apocalypse, growth and wisdom. What is passion really? How many lives does one need to really find it? The film winds up being a bit disjointed in a few of its moments, but it remains entertaining during the process of working through the wild story. The actors have fun with its “out there” plot and they lean into the high concept and characters, because why not. You can always dance at the end anyway.

The comedy may not appeal to everyone but I found this movie funny and definitely hard to anticipate. The cast was good and it likely was small budget but it went a long way. The middle was the hardest part to keep on the tracks for me, but I still enjoyed it all the way through. Most of the humor landed with me and I liked the wacky ideas presented. There was an attempt at character growth throughout the short script, and it dabbled with emotional resonance.

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