Then we’re trying to predict how the wrinkles will compound, and how they might be avoided.

After a few more rounds - things are getting complicated now - another villain gains the same awareness.Įlliott’s screenplay rides a fine edge of viewer involvement: As we mentally plot out what Renton can do better each time around, Elliott throws another wrinkle our way. (A power the makers of Superman adaptations sadly don’t have.) But before he can get the best of his captors, one of them starts realizing time is looping as well. That would seem to be good news for Renton, who can enjoy infinite reboots until getting it right. In a future where corporations compete against sovereign nations for the last global energy supplies, young engineer Renton tries to rescue an. writer/director Tony Elliotts sci-fi thriller ARQ, it wasnt really grabbing me. Renton, who (perhaps unwillingly) once worked for Torus, has invented what may be a perpetual-motion machine, the ARQ, which has shorted out and is causing the same three hours or so to repeat ad infinitum.

Suffice to say that multiple characters aren’t what they seem to be, some having confused allegiances to the two factions - a tyrannical megacorp called Torus a rebellion known as The Block - waging war in the near-apocalyptic world outside Renton’s bunker-like home. Early scenes play like Edge of Tomorrow, with Renton using lessons learned in one iteration - about both his captors and the long-lost lover, Hannah (Rachael Taylor of Jessica Jones), he was just reunited with - in an effort to win his freedom the next time around. In a dystopian future, an engineer trapped in a house and surrounded by a mysterious gang of masked intruders must protect a technology that could deliver un.

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