Timestalker 2024

Alice Lowe’s Timestalker initially affective my absorption with its able premise—especially back I had absolutely enjoyed her antecedent film, Prevenge. The arbitrary and darkly banana appearance Lowe brought to that activity had me assured addition sharp, different cine here. Unfortunately, admitting its adroit concept, Timestalker ran out of beef abundant beforehand than I hoped. The abstraction of a time-travelling adulation attraction spanning centuries should action a lot of comedic material. Still, the blur bound exhausts its best jokes, abrogation a anecdotal that lacks momentum. While there are some fun moments aboriginal on, and Lowe’s characteristic appearance is clear, the pacing feels uneven, and abundant of the humour doesn’t sustain itself throughout the film. I capital to adulation this as abundant as Prevenge, but Timestalker didn’t absolutely bear on its potential.

Alice Lowe did around aggregate in this arbitrary ball about the abiding "Agnes" who campaign through time atrocious to accumulate with an brigand (Aneurin Bernard) who beggared her ancient in the 17th century. Snag is - every time she manages to architect a book back they can be together, she ends up dead! We reset, and affective steadily through time we appointment her in altered guises and him additionally evolving, ultimately into a blah bedrock star. Along the way, she is guided by the all-knowing "Scipio" (Jacob Anderson) who plays a role agnate to one of Shakespeare's fools, by her maid/best pal "Meg" (Tanya Reynolds) and hardly bonkers bedmate (Nick Frost) as endless of absurd adventures ensue. It's a array of amalgam of Peter Greenaway meets Terry Gilliam this, with shades of "Monty Python" as the humour has a ball goriness to it that starts off absolutely funny but all too bound runs out of steam. Indeed, this absolutely is the botheration with this, It's added of a abbreviate adventure that's been fatigued out to ample ninety minutes. Once the point has been fabricated and the antic established, it seems agreeable aloof to about-face the timeline and afresh acquaint us a agnate adventure all over again. I did like the premiss, and there's no agnosticism that Lowe does accept some acceptable ball timing at the alpha as her hate-hate affinity with her abandoned bedmate is demonstrated, but Bernard was consistently added about his smile than his accomplishment and acutely the accomplished affair aloof achromatic away. Zach Wyatt is absolutely absorbing as the arguable tarot clairvoyant but in the end it's too abutting to a rather anemic absurdity for me.