Perfectly adorable

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

B videos can be so annoying to watch. A pretty good idea ruined by some set of fools who want to add revolting sexual scenes, either to try to get an audience or satisfy their own disordered desires. This is such a a piece of trash. If there was censorship, this would not be here to be reviewed. Every form of the popular gender-identity disorders is in this, smeared together with a potentially interesting time-travel video, ruining it. I gave it one star, because the site doesn't have negative stars. Making a video like this should carry a mandatory life sentence, with mandatory psychiatric interventions. Researchers should be exempt from using ethical standards when trying to fathom the pitiful, perverted a$$holes who made this.

We were having a "best of" and "worst of" New Zealand movie month in our flat. Saw a lot of interesting films but "Event 16" is one that stood out to me. Lumped in with the "bad" NZ films it really didn't belong there with stinkers like "Snakeskin" and "Maiden Voyage." Sure the acting was patchy and the script lost me a few times but I found myself enjoying the ride. It reminded me of the kid/adult made for TV movies of my youth. Like "The Tomorrow People" but with time travel. Hammy acting and mad effects. What did surprise me was to read here that it was a no budget film as it looked quite good on our TV. So maybe not a brilliant film but not as bad as the rating here implies.

Not everything that comes out of NZ will send you to sleep either.This is a very well produced project that was fun to watch while having a story line that you had to think about as you watched it. At some points of the film I admit I was a bit lost, but at the end of it all when I thought back on it, everything fell into place. With ANY time travel movie you can pick holes in it and say "That was just wrong", but Event16 is one of the best thought out time travel stories I have seen in a long time. The plot twists worked well and while some of the scenes were a bit cheesie (ie. the foot chase) it only added to the overall charm of the film.IMO - Hollywood could learn a lot from this movie as although it has a lot of special effects, they are there to support a good story as apposed to being there because the director wanted to see an explosion that would match his/her ego.I would love to see this film transfered onto film and hopefully bypass the audio problems inherent with LCD projection.Whatever way it goes, I think this film could well end up as a NZ classic along the lines of "Goodbye Pork Pie" and "Bad Taste".

I saw the "World Premiere" of 'Event 16' at the Wellington Film Festival yesterday. I was excited to see a film made by Kiwis in NZ, and the story sounded good, time traveling to 19th Century and bringing back a serial killer.That is where the good ended. This movie was a total waste of time. The story was confusing(granted doing any time traveling movie, something is going to get screwed up) the acting was appalling, the sound was terrible, and this was supposed to be an effects heavy film, which it was, but the effects were dismal, I could have done the effects! I have to let some of this go, because it was so bad. They said we have recreated Wellington 1893 WOW! Yeah all Wellington 1893 was is a 2D picture background and filming in front of it! You didn't recreate anything! And you use rain effects, you should try to make it look the environment is effected by the rain, not a single drop gets on anything but the guy shows up at the door soaking wet! The "time traveling portal": every time when used and someone comes out the other side, the effect makes part of the actors heads disappear. I felt really bad for the director who was in attendance, seeing that on screen. And I know that Mitsubishi sponsored this movie, but do you have to use every chance you had to promote them. ZOOM in on cool "moped" of the future "Hmmmm, I wonder who makes that? Oh its Mitsubishi!" Have some dignity.I cant think of any redeeming qualities for this film. Let me just say not everything that comes out of NZ is made by Peter Jackson.