Heavily inspired by 12 Monkeys and by Terminator, with the T800 seen as the good guy by the makers.
My rating points go to the gimmick and the technique.
The gimmick is about showing a character, and the world surrounding him, every 9 years, over a span of 37 years. Besides the technology and the physical aging, we are treated to the filming/editing techniques and resulting atmospheres of each period. Thus it starts as an original buddy movie from the 80s before moving to grayer pastures.
Sadly, the writing is fully focused on the gimmick. It's all about convenience instead of a tight story. The full picture is unsatisfying, inconsistent, either underdeveloped or nonsensical. Ditto little ideas that are original and cool, like the murder weapon, also impractical, overcomplicated and overkill... Not to mention it's a bio-weapon developed by a physicist stuck in a bootstrap paradox.
My rating points go to the gimmick and the technique.
The gimmick is about showing a character, and the world surrounding him, every 9 years, over a span of 37 years. Besides the technology and the physical aging, we are treated to the filming/editing techniques and resulting atmospheres of each period. Thus it starts as an original buddy movie from the 80s before moving to grayer pastures.
Sadly, the writing is fully focused on the gimmick. It's all about convenience instead of a tight story. The full picture is unsatisfying, inconsistent, either underdeveloped or nonsensical. Ditto little ideas that are original and cool, like the murder weapon, also impractical, overcomplicated and overkill... Not to mention it's a bio-weapon developed by a physicist stuck in a bootstrap paradox.