Timecrimes

2007 [SPANISH]

Action / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 79% · 68 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 74381 74.4K

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Plot summary

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

Director

Nacho Vigalondo Photo
Nacho Vigalondo

Top cast

Bárbara Goenaga Photo
Bárbara Goenaga as La Chica en el Bosque
Nacho Vigalondo Photo
Nacho Vigalondo as El Joven
Karra Elejalde Photo
Karra Elejalde as Héctor
Candela Fernández Photo
Candela Fernández as Clara
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847.96 MB
1280*682
Spanish 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 16
1.7 GB
1920*1024
Spanish 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 82

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by repojack 6 / 10

Inspector Clouseau if he got caught in a time machine

Reviewed by thedarkknight-23206 6 / 10

Enjoyable but not that great of a movie.

All in all I think the movie is good for entertainment but there is a major flaw that I just cant ignore.Spoilers from here on.How did it all start? The premise for Hector is, that he Voyeuristicaly watches a naked girl, searches for her (which is creepy on its own) and finaly gets chased into the time machine by himself.But the very first Hector who started all this(which we dont see in the movie) must have gotten into the time machine by his own, because there was no one who could have chased him. So I waited all the time that this major plot point would get explained at the end. Or better said: I waited for a twist which opens our eyes how it all started.But all we get to see is dumb hector who willingly travels back into time several times and the scientist just does whatever Hector tells him.But it was still an enjoyable movie. But I dont think that I will watch it a second time.I think the movie would have been much cooler if hector got lured into the time machine by the scientist. Imagine that the scientist hired someone to chase hector to the lab, so the scientist can make experiments on him. At first hector will play along, cause he thinks the scientist tells him the truth. At some point he finds out the truth and seeks revenge.But with everytime hector travelled back, he changed something out of stupidity, like talking to himself in the past, and the final showdown between the scientist and hector will take place at an altered reality. Hector wins and goes into the time machine a last time. He comes out and sees that he traveled to the future but this time everything is normal again.
Reviewed by Scottmillerj 6 / 10

Time Travel Make Hector Dumb

As far as i can tell this is a movie about the unwarranted humiliation and murder, of beautiful Good Samaritan, by a nervous, horny, simpleton, because time travel makes you dumber. It is obvious from the very first scene, where Hector accidentally dumps all of his home and garden purchases from his car as he drives up the driveway, that he is not very bright. But on each consecutive trip into the time machine, and through his day, he becomes increasingly moronic, sadistic, and cruel. He repeats mistakes he's seen himself make and does nothing to fix any of the problems he has, or knows are coming. The first Hector (Hector 1) is forgivable for his blunders. He is simply lured into the woods by a beautiful naked woman, and then attacked and chased my a masked maniac man, who eventually frightens him enough to break into a building and then trap himself, by climbing into a large vat filled with milk. He's not showing us that too many brain cells are working, but at least his actions are plausibly understandable. It is his second journey through the evening, as Hector 2, where his mental capacities apparently begin to break down. Here he ignores the advice of the time machine operator/scientist by first calling his house and then stealing a car and leaving the compound to go… somewhere, (possibly to his house to make things worse) when he sees the nice girl he saw naked riding her bike. After a quick car accident, Hector 2 wraps his head in a bloody bandage, turning himself into the masked maniac man, and proceeds to degrade, and humiliate the pretty young girl he saw naked after she stops to help him and gives him some water. Hector 2 then stabs Hector 1 with some scissors he stole from the pretty girl he saw naked, and frightens him into running for his life setting the scene for his previous time travel. He then inexplicably breaks into his own house and accidentally murders a woman he thinks is his wife, which results in his having to go back in time again to correct his mistake. But it is Hector 3 who is the real idiot. Not only does he allow all the horrible things that he did the last time, and experienced the first time, to happen again, this time he knowingly lets the beautiful young girl he saw naked and was only trying to help, be humiliated and then killed in place of his wife. He also steals another car, breaks his fourth fence, and destroys the nice coffee table he'd bought for his wife earlier in the day, (while he's locked her in the shed). And this is the Hector that is allowed to live. With all that being said, I thought this was a very entertaining movie, particularly for those who enjoy screaming at the screen when the characters do things we know are stupid. And as far at time travel movies go, this film unquestionably picks fate over free will as it's driving point.
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