See You Yesterday

Time travel movies are a dime (or one score ha'pennies) a dozen so I no longer go into them expecting to be blown away by fresh takes on the concept. Instead of attempting to try something new with the science that would have just been pulled apart by cynical armchair scholars like myself, this film decides to embrace the cliches and instead offer a change in the way of characters and setting (though, those are pretty cliche, as well, mind you). Luckily, that was just enough.

When you do a time travel movie, you can go for either the scientific beats or the emotional beats. For all its good intentions, in its attempts to do both, SYY ends up not really hitting either target. So we get a time travel movie which arbitrarily follows and ignores its own rules, and a movie about friendship and family that uses too much shorthand to set up the relationships and their consequences. A pity, all the more so for the bits where it works.

This is an good movie that has a nice mix of drama and science fiction. The cast does a good job here, especially the 2 leads. Overall I would recommend this film.

[Didn't finish] It feels like they were actively trying to hit all the tropes of a hood movie and of a time travel movie. The combination of these genres had potential for feeling like something new, but instead it ends up feeling derivative and inhabited by several two-note characters that aren't interesting enough to care about.

All the effort they did to point out how racism is bad was racist. Also, Stefon Briston didn't make any research about time travel obviously. So many mistakes and plot holes made the movie unbearable.