Preposterous as a piece of sci-fi, with time travel gimmicks that don't ring true. The film is unusual in its styling too. It's often played out like a Disney channel movie, yet littered with expletives that rule out family viewing. The film ends unsatisfactorily too; for me, at least. But despite the negatives, kudos should be awarded to the urban setting, and the effort to bring a blacklivesmatter plot in a sci-fi context. Not a great film then, but certainly an interesting one.
I really liked this movie. I was thrilled very early in the movie when students of color were shown as intelligent, interested in science, and headed for academic scholarships. As opposed to others' opinions, I thought the BLM message was conveyed extremely well. I do wish that the language hadn't been so filthy, as this concept was a worthy one. Sure, BLM can be dealt with in a serious drama, but what a great idea to do a Disney-style (ok, foul-mouthed Disney) scifi movie! The time-travel gear was cute and obviously non-scientific, so you weren't supposed to take it seriously. The ending lost 3 stars, though.
ok, its an open ending - well you like it or not..
but one thing i dont get. her brother left this "party" after jared (c´s ex-boyfriend) showed up. on her first jump back to save her brother, c and sebastian ran into jared. and then jared chased c and sebastian. after they get rid of jared, her brother is already on the crime-scene. so.. if jared chased c and sebastian, he never showed up on the party - so c´s brother has no reason to leave and is still talkin to this domino-guys. or jared showd up later - so her brother came after the cops to the crime-scene. her brother should be alive after the first jump.
Extremely "wannebee" politically correct movie. With an (even more extremely) bad ending. Dont waste your time.
Perhaps if you are 'of color' you'd find some way to enjoy the movie. Then still it has a crap ending though.
I think overall the movie was okay, but could have been a lot better with even the most minor of twerks. At this point since I've seen about 85,000 time travel movies I'm not looking for an explanation on how it works, but the movie doesn't do a good job at following it's own rules which is indicative of making it up as they go along. Any good story needs an outline that needs to be followed or it can fall apart at the seems.
I don't understand why the movie basically presented it as a "one or the other" deal with Calvin and Sebastian. Like no matter what, one of them has to die. That part being the main focus plot of the movie is never explained and really doesn't make any sense, so it being the "glue" of the movie it's easy to see how and why things start crumbling a bit here. Then there's the ending, like alright I can buy an open ending if the rest of the story is pretty much resolved but this felt more like they were like "Shit, there's no way we're gonna be able to explain this, let's just call it a wrap."
So yeah, it had potential and wasn't unenjoyable to watch, but the more you actually think about it the more you're like "Wait a minute though..."
See You Yesterday is a t-shirt emblazoned with a nice message. Sure, you appreciate it, but it's not like it's art.
I'm really not sure if this is a good movie or not. For starters, I enjoyed it. It was an interesting, engaging story that's paced well, and the #BLM stuff is handled mostly pretty well.
There's a bit of pretty cringey pseudo-science in an attempt to explain the time-travel, but it's easy enough to ignore.
There are two big flaws though.
The first flaw for me was in the time-travel inconsistencies. Particularly how they set up a number of limitations and narrative obstacles, just to "deus ex machina" them away as soon as they become an actual issue. Or even worse, they just ignore that they previously established some limitation and do whatever.
For example, Sebastian mentions before the first jump back in time to try and save Calvin, that they can only make a jump once a day. It's never explained why, but later in the movie CJ makes multiple jumps in the same day, without repercussions. Also, when they're prepping for their second attempt, Sebastian introduces an obstacle of having to avoid running into their first-attempt selves. Instead of dealing with that, they immediately just solve the problem with previously-unmentioned gold motherboards from Eduardo.
If you're a time-travel pedant, you're probably not going to enjoy this. There's too much left unexplained, or with explanation that doesn't make sense.
The second big flaw is that this movie doesn't really utilise the time-travel to any meaningful end. A good sci-fi story is about a lot more than just the events of that story. They usually have something to say about humanity, or society, or the like. However this movie seems to have chosen to say what it wants to say with the movie's setting and the time-travel adds very little to it. I walked away wondering what I was suppose to take from it all. And sure, not every movie needs a moral, but when your movie is about police brutality and gun violence you really should have something to say.
Also, while I can accept an ambiguous ending, this one was pretty unfulfilling and lacked any sort of closure.
wow this film is bad. it's so caught up trying to talk about police brutality and black people situation in America (which can be beyond interesting topics) that it forgots to be entertaining in any way. any scene it's dragged to eternity, some scene have no character at all, there are actually long dialogues without any music that make you want to really die inside for how boring and unnecessary they are. this film is just barely 1 hour and 20, I wonder how short it would be without all that dragging it out. Overall an incredibly full of potential topic and genre completely wasted. Also the finale is horrendous and leaves you even worse that what the film was already leaving you
Unsavory and unentertaining yet full of attempt to recycle time travel archetypes in a creative way. A failed experiment at making a lo-fi emotional #blacklivesmatter remake of "back to the future". A Michael J Fox cameo is just not enough !
It had It’s moments but also had It’s flaws. I was disappointed with the ending, definitely wanted more.
Stupid Ending. Time travel with open end. lost opportunity.
Shout by anthoney65BlockedParent2019-05-19T01:13:39Z
Terrible ending. The show could decide on what it wanted to be.
The time machines look like back pack bongs with vaporizers attached.