![]() ![]() Unless comedy is the central focus, like Groundhog Day, there’s a relief when the film finally breaks out of its entrapments and takes us to some new and unexplored area. Even some of the stronger films like Source Code and Edge of Tomorrow become a bit trying by the third trip around. Looper: There’s always something a bit tedious about time loop movies. It’s a rather brilliant hook of controlled confusion, but as the minutes tick away and things become more apparent, it’s hard not to wish for a little less control. Elliot’s film displays an awareness of both these factors, offering up the guise of complexity in its rush of information, while avoiding a messy narrative by way of its rather straightforward story and singular, adequately shot location. And yet for all of this initial complication and rush to establish this future world, there isn’t much that’s unfamiliar about it once the film slows down and we’re able to catch up.Īs audience members we’ve been almost conditioned to expect complicated narratives in time travel films, as well as to look for plot holes in what is easily the most intricate of science fiction subgenres. And on top of all of this is the titular ARQ itself, a perpetual motion machine that doesn’t generate energy but reuses it by way of a perpetual time loop. Relationship statuses, histories, and names are shuffled out like playing cards for a game we don’t yet know the rules to. We’re bombarded with sci-fi jargon: an energy crisis that’s destroyed the world, a civil war between the rebellion group known as the Block and the corporation Torus, and a plot to steal a currency referred to as scrips. Panic Mode: Tony Elliot’s ARQ begins in a panic, a rush of information, and stakes that never let up during its brief runtime. Then Jessica Jones‘ Rachael Taylor – who is no stranger to being a kick-ass fighter from the Marvel TV show – will come to his aid.ĭéjà vu never looked so terrifying and yet entertaining as what these new time loop movies are presenting.ĪRQ will have its world premiere at the Toronto festival on September 9, and will then be released worldwide on Netflix September 16.Overview: An engineer’s renewable energy experiment causes him and his ex to be caught in a time loop during a home invasion. First, Robbie Amell will be going through Hell on his own first. However, with ARQ it in the reverse order. Actually, a very underrated movie, in my opinion, and one where Emily Blunt is the real hero, who has to teach Tom Cruise how to become a hero.īased on the trailer, it looks like this may be the case here as well. Imagine experiencing the most scary thing ever and then you have to go through it over and over? ARQ uses the same time loop plot that we saw Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt go through in The Edge of Tomorrow. ![]() They must figure out how to stop the time loop and come out of it alive. This causes them to relive a deadly home invasion over and over again. The catch is, the technology has created a time loop. Young engineer Renton and Hannah find themselves attempting to save an experimental energy technology that could end the wars. In a future where corporations battle against sovereign nations over the last of the world’s energy supplies. Robbie Amell ( The Flash) and Rachael Taylor ( The Loft, Jessica Jones) headlines the movie. Netflix is on a roll and keeps creating their own great material – both movies and tv shows – and now they’re releasing a time-looping sci-fi movie called ARQ.ĪRQ is written and directed by Orphan Black writer Tony Elliott, which makes this his directorial feature film debut. ![]()
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