Wow, what an unexpected little gem. I'd never even heard of this movie before. It's really well conceived, and tight as hell. Sometimes time travel movies end up being so damned sprawling that you get lost in the plot, but in this movie travelling back in time thrice fits perfectly into a three act structure. It works from a sci-fi angle, it works from a faux-slasher or horror film angle, and it works on a symbolic, boring husband lured away by naked young woman angle. Great find.

Very Good. A mild-mannered family man unwittingly takes a trip back in time, and keeps repeating the trip to stop a reckless chain reaction leading to an unavoidable climax. This is a pretty neat premise handled flawlessly here. It'll kepp you riveted to the screen throughout its short runtime. Definitely worth buying,

Sleazy, gory B-movie fun with an intricate time travel plot.

Why are these so-called smart time travel movies so intensely boring? Logic problems work better in newspaper puzzles.

Solid sci-fi film that starts slow, but ratchets up the tension and the consequences. See it now before the inevitable American remake.

Solid idea, decent execution, but it feels like it was originally written as a vehicle for Jerry Lewis. Every turn involves some form of bungling.

An excellently told story; a tidy and satisfying thriller that sidesteps the problems that beset most time-travel films.

Simply brilliant, maybe except on the acting parts. You think yourself clever when you think you've figured it out, and then BAM, you're wrong. And again. And again. Still, rewarding and brilliantly written.

it will certainly be no crime if you spend eighty eight minutes of your time with this one. i wonder if vigalondo was purposely tipping his hat to vertigo?

I's ok, the story is a rehash from other movies but it's still entertaining.

Fantastic time-travel movie, I think this trumps every other time-travel story I have seen in terms of complexity and by having not just 2 but 3 or more simultaneous versions of reality overlapping, along with a twist I never saw coming. Nothing in the movie is ever explained if it's possible to postpone that explanation till later. The script, direction and editing by Nacho Vigalondo all have to be perfect for this to work at all. A haunting, chilling suspense-led horror theme underpins it all.

Excellent proof that you don't always need huge budgets, handsome actors and mind boggling sets to make a good (sci-fi) movie. All you need is good writing, directing and acting. And boobs. This movie has it all. Take thát Hollywood.

It's like watching a 20-minute movie 3 times over. Intriguing for the first 20 minutes, but the spoon-fed explanations in the latter versions of the story make the film really dull and predictable. I think the moral of the story is "Voyeurism is bad", but that happens to be the only part of the movie I'd be willing to watch over and over again!

Predictable early on, and suffers from some minor plot holes but ultimately gripping. To watch our protagonist/antagonist slowly realize the lengths he must go through to fix his situation is a real treat.

Proof that it's not the budget that counts, nor the acting, nor the cinematography, but the writing. Great movie. P.S. Timecrimes has the writing and all the other categories as well.

I love this sort of stuff. While it's no 'Primer' it's worth checking out.

This is one of the very few examples that gives some real thought to time travel dillema. There is Lem story where Ijon Tichy multiplies numerous times in an electromagnetic field, that story by far surpasses this film, but there is no comparing to the genius of Lem. Anyways Timecrimes held my interest for 2/3 if it's runtime. The lead is very good in his weary -let's get this thing done with- way. The unavoidable fallacy emerges as loops complete and what's left is only a few details to bind.

"Vigalondo's film wastes little time in foregrounding the act of seeing." - Andrew Schenker

Intricately worked out, but the extreme circularity means it has trouble maintaining interest for the duration.

These kind of movies always gets me and Cronocrimenes is a decent time travel thriller.

The beginnend is a mess, the middle is foreseeable, but the last part is great.

Distinguishes itself from the rest of the frequently rote and tiresome time travel genre by concentrating on a tense and unnerving tone. It goes to some quite dark places, bordering on becoming a horror film, but knows when to play it light so that it doesn't become overbearing. And it's even free of technobabble! Not quite something different, but it's different enough to become something thrilling and refreshing.

A pretty simple, straightforward time travel story. It's nothing that you have to think too terribly hard about, but the movie is still pretty rich, throwing little hints at you the entire time about a deeper underlying plot. I noticed almost all of these, but shook them off, thinking them to be unimportant details. Fun to watch twice, but not something that'll keep you coming back over and over.

Leave causality at the door! Similar to Primer; less complicated but perhaps more immediately satisfying. A lot of huff-n-puffing from the main character, which gets annoying. I was never sure what to make of him.

Tightly focused, logical, and very satisfying. Watching an event play out from different perspectives and trying to predict what exactly is happening is just so much fun. Like the film Primer, this movie's series of events stays within the confines of a short amount of time. Also like Primer, it's a real head scratcher. The difference here is that this film is actually comprehensible.

no surprises.