It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Excellent but underrated film

best movie i've ever seen.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I watched this movie because I am interested in the concept of stopping time but unfortunately, the only other movie I know of exploring this concept is cashback. Wanting to see something with actors who had an American accent however, I picked up this movie to watch. When finished, I found myself saying "Meh, could have been better." Still, I wanted to see what others thought of the movie and jumped onto IMDb and having disagreed with their reviews, I found myself writing this one.So, if you're on the fence about whether or not watch this film, I would say it has a few plot problems, actors were good and believable but could have been better, and the overall movie was emotional and very slow moving. I would also tell you that you won't want to watch it more than once and you won't want to watch this if you want things explained or want a fairy tale ending (despite it's somewhat sci-fi-esque premise).Personally, I didn't set any expectations before watching the film and to me, the movie was slow. Though it was done purposely to convey a message and to accentuate the general tone of the movie, I would argue that there were just too many occasions that I thought, "Come on... hurry up." I know it was just trying to communicate the same message in different ways (probably on the notion that different viewers would receive the same message best in a different way) but I got restless at times.Speaking of communication, the plot is not spoon-fed to you and you will be guessing from time to time with hit-or-miss results. In some places it is a good thing because you think "Oooo... I wonder what they'll do next!" You might get disappointed with the result though... Otherwise, there are a few plot holes that go unexplained. It's fine but at some point, you just need (or want) a little bit more.Which brings me to my next critique, the acting. The actors were likable and for the first 80% of the movie and you really sympathize with the main protagonists but you just wanted to continue liking them and believing them that little 20% more. Don't get me wrong, they were believable and well-developed. Tragedy, loss... it's not unusual for the characters to have done what they did and coped in the way that they did. What I am trying to say though is that your perceptions of the characters will probably change however, but another possibility is that you will disregard their actions that do not fall in line with your preexisting bias. If you read some of the other reviews this comes out pretty clearly. Regardless of your opinion, there will be scenes where the actors slip or just do something that takes you out of the magic and ambiance of the movie entirely.Overall, I would say the movie was good. You won't want to watch it more than once, but not watching it might be a mistake. It will not be raunchy or perverse or action-packed like what you may expect but bear in mind it's a movie that explores the "Hey, what if..." concept in reality. So will you like this movie? If you don't like movies without fairy tale endings, probably not. Even if you like movies that allow you to think for yourself though, I believe you will finish this movie still craving something more.

This movie is not a science fiction, it is actually a character study. It explore the dark side of a man's emotion and obsession.A man lost his family during a car accident gained a special power through a camcorder. It may not be the most logical idea for a science fiction, but the point here is not about the stupid video camera that got some people here so wrapped up about. forget about the video camera, it's only an vehicle. How about the man had gained the power to suspend time by snapping his fingers? Would you be more happy about that? Human's ignorance have no bound. If you demand logic so much, try explain gravity. Can you? Guess not. How about trying to explain the concept of time, even physicists can not agree on that. What is time exactly? Huh? Good luck explain that. I bet no two people can come up with the exact same answer.Let's just say that through the event of accident, it seems that this man had discovered a crack on reality as we know. He goes in and out of this crack through a device (stupid camcorder again).What this movie is really about is the things goes on inside this man's head. What really goes through a man's head after a traumatic event? Have you ever lost all your family in a split second? Guess not. But some reviewer here seem to have a very strong opinion on how should a man grief. And then some other reviewer even go as far as saying that this is not the way this man should use his super power. Are you this man? Do you have super power? How do you know how he suppose to use this super power? So he didn't use his super power in a typical Hollywood blockbuster style, and you got angry and think this doesn't make any sense. Do you know how shallow you all sounded like? A movie finally breaks away from Hollywood cliché of super heroes or super villain, the audience can't take it! More Hollywood cliché please!!! Someone complains that this movie is creepy. It suppose to be creepy! Have you seen Saw? Isn't that creepy? No no no, this is even more creepy than saw. Right... you guys need help. Most of Hollywood's horror movie simply glorify violence and gore to the point of perversion. Now here we have a guy who's not one dimensional, and you all got confused. This guy is actually never intentionally evil, he's just obsessed. He's actually a very sweet guy that willing to die for his love, he just did it in a wrong way. He's more human like than most of the other movie characters I've seen. He may be a creep, but he's a real creep, not your typical Hollywood creep who also turn out to be Satan himself. Typical American mentality: A movie character is either 100% good or 100% evil. Now we have an emotionally vulnerable and sometime confused individual, you all all of a sudden can't seem to relate to that anymore. Reality check: WE ARE ALL VULNERABLE, CONFUSED AND DOWNRIGHT HELPLESS MOST OF TIMES! Unless you are not a real human being.In the game of love, who had really figured out the right way? Did you? There's another reviewer complains that it defies logic that he falls for her. Can you really explain love??? Like your love is all very well calculated and makes perfect sense. I doubt that's real love. It has to be a very boring one regardless.In the end, how should a man deal with his loss? How could you know how he suppose to deal with his loss? In this movie, we are presented with a character who channeled all of his emotion towards a self destructing tragic end. Was that less appropriate than the text book of dealing with tragic? If you want the text book version, go talk to a shrink or read up a pamphlet or something.Here we are given a chance to peek inside the dark abyss of a man's emotion. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be creepy. Who's mind isn't? Who doesn't have little dark corner here and there? Has it nothing but eternal sunshine of spotless mind? I doubt it! I seriously doubt it. You know you had thoughts and dark secrets and unexplainable desire and obsessions that you can't tell anyone about it. Here the director is brave enough to let it out in the open, through whatever vehicle he uses, right in front of our naked eyes.The raw emotion rings true, though it may strike a few nerves.

I wasn't expecting much about this movie, but I wasn't expecting it to be as bad either. I just finished watching the movie and I came here to read what other people had to say and, to my surprise, others claim to have enjoyed it... So, after dragging myself through the movie I just felt the urge to create an account in IMDb leave my comment. The movie is slow, the plot makes little sense and the ending is very disappointing. It's about a guy who loses his family in a car crash and then finds out he's got a camcorder which can stop time. What?! Plus, this is never given any sort of explanation, anything that would make any sense. I wasn't looking for a scientific argument, just some sort of reasoning behind the plot. From that point onwards, the movie just keeps going down (very, very slowly). Really, a total wast of time. You'll do yourself a favor by skipping this one.

This movie is creepy and I don't think it is intentionally. While the movie is well done (good cinematography, directing and acting), the script seems to me a little bit off. Here you have a guy that looses his family in a car crash and gains the power to stop time through the pause button on a camcorder (no logical explanation ever given in the movie why and how), all he does with his new found powers is to stalk the woman of the other victim in the car crash. And this is where the movie becomes really creepy because she clearly doesn't want his advances. The movie becomes then this really strange action/psycho flick, that I don't think was ever truly the intention of the makers. Or maybe it was? To me the writing in this movie really sucks because there is no clear idea or concept or story line that makes sense. If you make the movie about a man loosing his family in a car crash who then gains the power to stop time, you develop the story with the context of a man trying to fix the past or someone trying to prevent others from experiencing similar traumas (in the movie the main character does try to help others, but always with catastrophic results. The writer/director could have just explored this and the movie would have been fine). Or they could have made the entire movie just about the abuse of power ... in that case the car crash would not have been a necessary element. Or the movie could have been about how you protect yourself from somebody who has these powers and is after you. In that case the movie could have been set in the future where that kind of power might be available (of course only in the movies). Bottom line: there are three stories wrapped up in one movie and that is what makes it so bad. I don't think this movie is worth watching other than for the special effects, which I have seen however in other movies before. And now that I think of it, it almost seems to me that the idea for the movie was developed because of the special effect. That would explain the weakness of the script and the hodge podge of ideas.