the audience applauded

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Great Film overall

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Repeaters don't give you anything brand new. But what it gives, is a decent moral questions: would you do something if it is absolutely sure you won't get punished? If you have morals of course you won't do it. Is freedom really about you can do whatever you want? Do you have the right to do immoral things when you are in extraordinary situation?To be fair, these questions are making this movie's rate 7. I have seen other time repeating movies, and they were more comedies. This is decently dark, more human, no laughter. But in exchange you get important moral questions to think about.For me as an atheist it is representing the question: Can an atheist be moral? And the answer is absolutely yes. If you have freedom to do whatever you want without punishment, it is YOUR choice to be jerk or normal. It is your decision if you want to live in the moral squalor you made, or make your environment better.I know this review was personal, but it is always good to have personal message from a movie.For sum it up: I might watch it once more. It is generally a good movie. It is not epic, but I think this is a recommended movie for everybody over a certain maturity level.

Three delinquents experience the same day over and over again. So what do they do? Not much, really. The key is "Carston! Seven thirty." And so we go again. But from this enjoyable concept nothing clever or insightful ensues, and we end up with a midwestern family values story. Just like that other movie, but without Bill Murray's delightful cynicism.What would it be like to live without consequences for your actions? A bit dull, mostly miserable, do the same. So, not much different from real life, which technically makes this a documentary.This really needed some perverse behaviour from the characters, however foul according to the taste of the intended audience. Without the perversity it simply failed to explore the concept. The good guys were good, the bad guy was bad. Completely dull.Pace, direction, editing all excellent, but concept cooked as flat as a pancake. I did like the actress with her slopey nose and woolly hat.

What do you do if you're drug addicts and you experience Groundhog Day? You squander all the opportunities that repeating a day can bring you and go completely psycho. You continue to show just how bad a human being you are until the day stops repeating and normality returns.There, I've saved you 90 minutes of your life.This deliberately drab, depressing film, takes the Groundhog Day premise and crams as much sadness into one day as possible - nothing good ever comes from the protagonists actions. Events simply spiral down into total chaos and disaster.Sadly, where the premise breaks down is that, although the protagonists remember the repeated day, they also do a lot of mind-altering drugs during the repeated day, and the question of how their memories are affected from one day to the next is never addressed. How can you restart a day when your previous memories are warped by alcohol, heroine or cocaine? When you wake up the day after flooding your body with chemicals with no continuing effects, how does that alter your view of the world? Only by addressing this question could this film have been a worthwhile contribution to the wash, rinse, repeat cycle of film making.In the end the cycles appear to stop repeating, time resumes it's normal course, no explanations are given, and nothing much has changed. What started the repeat cycle? Don't know. What stopped the repeat cycle? Don't know. What happened to the protagonists? Don't care.What happens next? Not depressed enough to want to find out.

(That's a message to the writers.)It's not blowing anything to say this is basically an attempt at a dark version of the same concept from Ground Hog Day. That's all contained in the synopsis and the pre-release blerb.Or, if you want some serious physics: its a portrayal of the effects of Closed Timelike Curves - an Einsteinian concept.But let's face it, it's a simple, childhood daydream, and therefore an archetypal idea: what if the same day repeated ad-infinitum?I used to dismiss Ground Hog Day as a slightly better than average Hollywood comedy, though my love for Bill Murray has grown and grown over the years (The Life Aquatic is now a film I proudly own).But the more I have gone back and looked at Ground Hog Day, the more it has improved. It really is quite a good, philosophical treatment of the conundrum the protagonist faces, and the way he deals with it is believable. And it manages to be inspiring, and cunningly the writers have left the ending open: you can interpret it in some kind of religious/spiritual ooga-booga way, or you can take it that it's just the result of the protagonist's careful planning - he had time to think the whole thing right through, after all.And this brings us to the issue with Repeaters. Writing.It starts strong and involves the audience. And the 'problems' are introduced rather nicely ...Then it collapses.Not completely, but it takes a fairly bad hit and kind of limps on after:We depart on the loop train with the feeling we are bound for Thrilling Dark Cleverness. Instead, we find ourselves passing endlessly through Mediocrity, Writing Needs Work, and Lost Our Whiteboard, again and again.Several things irritated me - characters being pussies when they should have charged into the fray (and would have, if they'd had all the time in the world to map out the consequences; there are a LOT of things I would have added, or treated differently) - lack of intellectual support (plot could have been quite ingenious, but ended up not: this is a puzzle-trap after all) - and a really stupid plot-hole, introduced by the writers finally trying to be CLEVER (and instead delivering messed up, gluggy short-hand that garbles the message), that has been the subject of great debate on the IMDb forums.But, having said all that, what about enjoyment? Would I recommend you rent this?Hell yes. Take it for a spin.Or a loop.