‘Paradox’ Trailer: In Which Time Travel Once Again Goes Spectacularly Wrong For Everyone
It’s probably a good thing that time travel doesn’t exist in the real world because we’d all be dead by now. Well, dead or vanished into thin air,Back to the Future-style. As cinema has shown us, nothing good has ever come from galavanting across the timeline. If your parents aren’t trying to get in your pants, you’re creating horrifying alternate futures by stepping on butterflies or getting gunned down in airport terminals in front of your younger self. If you build a time machine in the movies, you’re in for a pretty bad time.
Unfortunately, no one bothered to tell the characters at the center ofParadoxthat messing with the space time continuum is almost always a bad move. The trailer for his new low-budget science fiction thriller has arrived it looks to adds a few new points the whole “time travel is bad and you should never do it” thesis.
The story here is intriguing enough. A group of scientists build a time machine and send one of their own one hour into the future. He returns, claiming that each and every one of them will soon be dead. And then a masked killer starts stalking everyone, allowing starZoe Bellto showcase her patented punching/kicking skills.
Paradoxlooks like it was made for a fistful of pennies and a couple rolls of duct tape, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Some of the best science fiction movies ever made, likePrimerandTimecrimes, were shot on shoestring budgets. IfParadoxis any good (and let’s be honest and just admit that it doesn’t look particularly good in trailer form), it will have some very strong company. It doesn’t instill too much confidence to learn thatMichael Hurst’s past credits as a director includePumpkinhead: Blood FeudandHouse of the Dead 2, but hedidwriteNinja: Shadow of a Tear, which is pretty decent as far as low-budget ninja schlock starring Scott Adkins goes.
Plus, it’s very difficult to completely dislike something that features Bell, the charming stuntwoman and actress who won our hearts when she literally risked life and limb for that ridiculous climactic car stunt in Quentin Tarantino’sDeath Proof.
Here’s the official synopsis forParadox:
A group of young scientists are working on a secret project that may allow them to travel ahead in time. They test it by sending one of their own ahead one hour. He returns pleading with them to shut it down, explaining that within that hour, they will all die.
