This film has seemingly received a lot of high praised among fans. The original source material is from a short then it was ultimately adapted into a full feature film. This is an independent British film and it very much feels so.
Described as a fantasy romantic drama, it offers some comedic elements but overall it is incredibly slow moving, with an off beat pace where the central story tries being very touching, sentimental but simply falls flat and emotionless.
The lead character is meant to be someone we are supposed to root for yet he comes across as standoff-ish, depressing and overall moody and someone you wouldn't want to interact with. Seemingly selfish in his ways and also incredibly creepy and perverted with his ability to be able to freeze frame time for him to do whatever.
The infamous scene is where he's in the aisle of the supermarket and he freezes time then walks up to several young women revealing their clothing, touching them and suddenly starts painting. His behavior seems to be excused because he's a painter.
None of this is ever explained as to how he has the ability to freeze and slow down time and it simply comes across as creepy. We are lead to believes it's a hallucination or dream-like yet in one scene he's able to pick up his boss, carry him and move him into another place.
Later on, there is a soccer scene which was meant to be humorous but came across as forced and it drags on. Then towards the end, possibly the climax scene at the boss' party, our lead Ben sees his ex-girlfriend and things further spiral with him and the current love interest employee.
Overall, it was hard to root for the lead as he came across as simply dull and unlikeable. None of the characters are likeable, especially the two male employees that are always fooling around. They are meant as comic relief but simply weren't funny and more so forced.
For a film with a relatively short runtime, it drags on (too many flashback scenes of his childhood), and too many narration sequences.
Cashback simply felt longer than it should have and ultimately was boring for the most part. One of the more pretentious and quite overrated films having seen.
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