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.

so simple, so great..

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.

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.

I'm a sucker for time-travel, and this was really quite good. But, unfortunately, I saw this after I saw "Primer" and that just made it feel a little too simplistic. Definitely worth viewing.

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

Neither as simple as it looks, nor as annoyingly complicated as PRIMER. There are points where I knew exactly where it was going but the fun is in getting there. The film's best asset is the way it blends sci-fi, horror and even black comedy as Hector blunders his way through time travel. It never attempts to explain how everything works, it just throws you into it and lets you enjoy the ride. The story moves swiftly and never bogs down. A fun film that cautions about the perils of voyeurism.

Very well constructed film that's complex and tense enough to be interesting to watch but not so much that it crumbles under its own weight. I didn't find the voyeurism angle all that interesting, but all the exploration of causality and determinism/free will was great. The slightly tongue in cheek tone works well too.

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

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.

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

Pacey enough to keep the momentum going for the whole film, but let down some poor characterisation. The protagonist is just totally unsympathetic, and the way he develops from a bumbling suburbanite into an ice-cold time-travel guru is totally implausible. I thought there were some gaps in the plot, too, particularly around how the whole chain of events got started, although I guess a few loose ends are par for the course in a film like this.

I really enjoyed watching this movie though it got out of hands at the end. It is exciting but the longer it takes, the more you cannot understand it.

Nice Movie

At first I hoped for something other than I got, but then as the movie went on, it was really interesting watching the main character go through what he had to. I liked the music a lot, the acting was solid, the girl who shows her boobs really is beautiful and soft sci-fi works well, avoiding an explanation of time travel and just embracing the plot created by it.

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.

Really, really clever in some regards, flawed in others, but overall it's quite entertaining.

+ recommended