Karra Elejalde

Candela Fernández

Bárbara Goenaga

Nacho Vigalondo

Juan Inciarte

Libby Brien

Nicole Dionne

Philip Hersh

José Luis Arrizabalaga

José Luis Romeu

Biaffra

Urko Aguirre

Jaime Gartzia

Flavio Martínez Labiano

Eduardo Carneros

Javier Ibarretxe

Cormac Regan

Jordi Rediu

Esteban Ibarretxe

Norbert Llaràs

Dave Chariton

Nahikari Ipiña

Santi Camuñas

Eugenio Mira

Sergio Barrejón

Todd Brown

Soraya Lacaba

Chucky Namanera

Manuel Carrión

Martín J. Guridi

Roberto Fernández

Miguel Ángel Cárdenas

Jon D. Domínguez

Ricardo Viñas

Marcos Onaindia

Ángel García Palmeiro

Aitor Basterretxea

Juan Cadenas

Alberto García

Uxue Jiménez

Pau Costa

Félix Guede

Manuel Gago

Pablo González

Bárbara Mingo Costales

Ricardo Aranburu

Susana Ibarretxe

Ernesto Núñez

José Carlos

Jon Barco

Jonás Pérez

Álex Abajo

Raúl Romanillos

Antonio Álvarez

Elías Fernández

Charo Diego

Jon Elizegui

Amaia Maguregui

Ainara López

Jesús Luque

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Repo Jack

Oh my God the time traveler in this movie is an idiot! Do as the time machine guys says and DON'T GO ANYWHERE FOR ONE HOUR. But nope, he's gotta go meddle with the timeline and create multiple versions of himself and events. 

I'm a sucker for time travel flicks, and for a very low budget Spanish import, it was fairly entertaining, but check out the much better "Predestination" instead if you haven't seen it. 

Timecrimes (2007), titled initially Los cronocrímenes, is one of the best time-travel movies available. Written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo, it was made in Spain and performed in Spanish. Reading English subtitles will not distract, however, as much of the movie is visual, and the pacing is not slow but methodical. 

The story revolves around Hector and starts at his house, which he recently moved into. He sees something in the woods behind his house and goes to investigate. He is stabbed, and while running away from the mysterious masked figure, he enters a secret lab in the neighboring field. While hiding from the masked figure, he is transported back in time one hour and makes some amazing discoveries about himself. What must he do, and what is he willing to do, to restore the life he had before his accidental time-traveling adventure?

The story illustrates the complexities of time-travel and what having multiple "you"-beings in existence at once can lead to. Very entertaining and a definite "much watch."

Peter McGinn

Before I say a word about the movie itself, let me advise you that if you haven’t already seen the preview for this movie, do yourself a favor and Don’t Watch It! Never have I known a preview to give so much away, and it it is particularly heinous in this case as it is a time travel movie, with plot shifts that should be experienced in real time, so to speak. I would have been some old mad if I had watched the preview first.

But on to the movie itself. This is a Spanish language movie with subtitles, but that didn’t detract from my enjoyment of it. It is nicely set up and cleverly done. At one point I guessed right about a little plot twist I saw coming, but there was much more I didn’t predict, which brings us back to how glad I am I didn’t watch that preview. I expect this was a low budget film and there aren’t many characters in it, so don’t expect a glitzy production with awesome special effects. It just tells the story. I did feel like Hector made a couple of really stupid decisions along the way, but I cut it some slack because without them we have a boring half-hour movie!

Okay, I will stop talking about what happens so as not to possibly give anything away. If you like time travel stories as I do, and are intrigued by the anomalies and problems such fictional activity can cause, give this movie a try.

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A review by Repo Jack

Written by Repo Jack on Tue Nov 10 2020

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