Plot
Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
Cast
Anthony "Falcon" Mackie and Jamie "Tom Hardy clone" Dornan with a random pointless cameo from Bill Oberst Jr.
Verdict
Synchronic could be placed on the shelf with Inception or Tenet. Movies I call pseudo-intellectual, films that certain movie fans will tell you that if you don't like them you didn't "Get them". Yep, I got them just fine thank you, but you have a very skew definition of intelligence if this is the bar.
Synchronic is a head ache inducing time travel film of a sort that makes the rules up as it goes along and then changes them as and when it suits it. Therefore you have a confusing, head scratching, disjointed movie that was nothing but frustrating.
The cast, fine. But the writing leaves the movie positively dead on arrival.
Rants
I despise that type of film fan, the pseudo-intellectual. "Mainstream" films are bad but this "Smart" film is perfection, then you watch said film and it's as deep as a puddle and as intelligent as a bag of farts. It's arrogance, and I want no part of it.
The Good
Decent leads
The Bad
Nonsensical plot Inconsistency laden Daft finale.
Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
Cast
Anthony "Falcon" Mackie and Jamie "Tom Hardy clone" Dornan with a random pointless cameo from Bill Oberst Jr.
Verdict
Synchronic could be placed on the shelf with Inception or Tenet. Movies I call pseudo-intellectual, films that certain movie fans will tell you that if you don't like them you didn't "Get them". Yep, I got them just fine thank you, but you have a very skew definition of intelligence if this is the bar.
Synchronic is a head ache inducing time travel film of a sort that makes the rules up as it goes along and then changes them as and when it suits it. Therefore you have a confusing, head scratching, disjointed movie that was nothing but frustrating.
The cast, fine. But the writing leaves the movie positively dead on arrival.
Rants
I despise that type of film fan, the pseudo-intellectual. "Mainstream" films are bad but this "Smart" film is perfection, then you watch said film and it's as deep as a puddle and as intelligent as a bag of farts. It's arrogance, and I want no part of it.
The Good
Decent leads
The Bad
Nonsensical plot Inconsistency laden Daft finale.