I do hope that this will be a pilot for a full series as I thought it was pretty good and there has certainly been a lot worse (not naming names). Sure time travel is nothing new, but we live in an age where it's increasingly difficult to come up with something new as pretty much everything has been done before in some form or other. There were hints of Continuum and Quantum Leap thrown in there and this initial pilot did show promise and potential for more. The acting was O.K. it was nice to see Jeff Fahey,(I was a little upset when his character was killed off after the first few minutes of Under the Dome) and the storyline/plot/writing/script was O.K. too. Overall this was a decent production that deserves a chance for more to follow. 7/10.
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thejman191628 August 2013
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fkm196430 September 2013I had set my DVR to record the series not knowing it was a one shot deal. If they knew this up front, it was one lousy and confusing ending. A madman had killed over nine million people with a nuclear bomb in New York and using an untested top secret project three people go back some 54 years to set the man on the right path thus saving New York. They make it back with seconds to spare and everything seems okay until a military officer overseeing the project steps thru the time stream to an unknown time or location. THE END. COME ON. Where did he go and what did he do? The ending sucked. This show had a new concept of time travel at most, a little of Continuum in it but it has promise. I guess fictitious wrestling, game shows and chasing ghosts are more cost effective. Welcome to brain dead, cheap, mindless and modern TV. Our Syfy (Sci-Fi) channel has lost it's way with less than half a dozen true science fiction shows on now and not a single new space series on. Please give us something worth watching.
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I loved watching this and although I knew it was a failed pilot, i was still quickly overwhelmed by the huge sense of adventure in the story. Although this may have been made in a seemingly amateur style, I still believe that this show should have continued. The potential story's are endless. This left many questions unanswered as episodes should do as it makes you crave the next episode, thus there needs to be more. Call me inexperienced if you must but, I have not come across the whole idea of a ripple machine before. I always hated the whole uneasiness of movies with concepts of time travel where people go back in time for a certain reason and end up doing whatever they possible can to achieve the desired outcome. Then they return to their original time and only their desired result has occurred. I'm sure there should have been millions of ripples after the destruction they had caused. But this show tackles that problem implementing a true-sight backdrop for all ripples in time allowing the time travelers to know precisely the consequences of their actions.
Overall this film was intriguing and adventurously fun. -
weasl-729-31068210 August 2017This could have been a great series and I don't understand why they didn't pursue it. With "Quantum Leap" what kept the viewer so engaged was a different venue every time with familiar characters. I really liked this pilot, and I think it's abandonment was a waste of a really very good idea.
This one and QL also brought an education to viewers about culture in different times. So interesting, and such a waste to scrap this one.
The concept will be brought back at some point, and it will be a popular money-maker. -
bjorn-svensson723 April 2014While this was actually what i would call a fairly good timetravel-movie, i can not Believe how they could go through all this trouble doing a Movie and not having the ending all fixed and set.
On Another note, and to tell the director of the Movie, you better get your team together again, because that kind of an ending should be criminal.
And for my fellow Movie Viewers, this is actually quite well made, there's only a few loose ends that did not get tied up in the end. But that is to be expected when you Watch a Movie like this one. It still gives what i would call a good value and good Entertainment, maybe not a Movie to buy and put on your shelves, but a good Movie for a thursday evening on Netflix or any other online streaming service.
The acting could, like the story, be a Little glitchy from time to time, but i did not find anything catastrophic in there. The actors did a fine job most of the time, and did really good at "living in the moment". All in all, i liked this Movie, my reason to give it such a bad rating was the way the thing ended. -
squirrellmen27 August 2013Syfy has done it again, this time taking bits from continuum. I don't mind bringing greats shows to America but Syfy just ends up ruining everything with all the Americanizing, cough being human for example. The time travel based procedural cop show angel is fine but this show is more procedural cope show than science fiction.
The first 5 minutes of any story should grab the audience, with Science Fiction that is incredibly easy, show some flashy tech, some amazing event, a character saying incredibly crazy almost incomprehensible things that will later make sense, any of those will do, they are all solid sci fi hooks and really not anything that needs to change. When I see science fiction turn into a procedural cop show with bad acting, shaky camera angles to add intensity, and awful dialogue, I no longer have a reason to watch.
Syfy, if your going to make a science fiction show, focus on the science, even if your acting and dialogue are bad, people tuning into to Syfy to watch a science fiction may stick around. Trying to change the format of a genre to get viewers that prefer cop shows, drama, or reality TV, only makes science fiction fans turn away. I don't understand the logic, people who like Science Fiction and are always infront of a computer and TV so why should you make shows appeal to people that never watch or watch other genres? Make Syfy for science fiction fans.
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airira20 September 2016Interesting show. A little boring in places. Standard acting and writing but I liked its chutzpah in reworking old time travels tropes into something fresh. I especially liked the small role by the great director, David Cronenberg. His acting was probably the best in the bunch. I'm a big fan of his so getting to see him work in front of the camera instead of behind it was a big plus. The scene between him and the male lead was a well written scene, probably in no small part because of Cronenberg's casting. I doubt he would have done it if that scene was anything less than quality script. Only way this could have been picked up by Syfy is to have renamed it, "Timenado."
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Zubacz27 August 2013While I understand it is quite difficult to create a plausible sci-fi story, especially when it involves time travel, this show's plot holes were just ridiculous. The "time machine" itself, communication with the present, the explanation and simulation of the ripple effect, or practically any line of dialogue, that is relevant to the physics or logic of the time travel enterprise in this show, is just ridiculous. I found myself cringing, trying to find meaning or sense in the characters' conversations, only to come to the conclusion, that the producers put no effort into making any of the story plausible to a moderately intelligent human being.
The camera is decent and the acting isn't awful, considering the terrible script. The story is one that we've seen many times before.
Overall judging by the pilot, I would not recommend this show. It's downright insulting to any fan of Donnie Darko or Butterfly Effect and honestly even Hot Tub Time Machine shows time travel with more sense. -
drbits29 August 2013This is a pilot for a series, not a TV Movie (as categorized by IMDb).
Although the plot drags in places, about half of the show is an "edge of your seat" experience.
This pilot contains the most ambitious time travel explanations I have seen in movies or TV. The science works (with General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics of massive particles). The explanation of how changes to the past ripple to the future and the simulations are realistic.
Whoever researched the science behind the show did an excellent job, but the science concepts are above the heads of most viewers and may cause dissatisfaction for some reviewers. Many of us are used to lots of jargon, but that is deliberately skipped here.
I think the general public would accept this show as an action-drama. -
dennie-187503 November 2019Too bad they didnt proceed with this.
But then again Avengers End Game took the idea.
So yeah... problem solved. -
jelstudio13 November 2015You know how music has these boy-bands/girl-bands where there's a group of people so everybody has one to love. This movie follows the same commercial lame recipe.
It's basically a copy of NCIS, or NCI, or NCIS-LosAngeles, or NCIS-Florida, or whatever it is all those spin off nonsensical shows are called these days.
It's one big caricature that even amateurs can't make as bad as these producers managed to do.
This 'movie' is a total waste of watching-time if you like quality-TV.
It gets 2 out of 10 because it's about time-travel, but deserves zero out of 10 for it's lameness.
I have nothing good to say about this 'movie'. So stereotypical of current commercial TV it's to cry for.
Yuck, yuck and more yuck.
End-of-review. -
jwsmythe-925-8235425 September 2013In my opinion, it was a good pilot. I'll avoid giving any spoilers, being overly vague if you haven't watched it.
I'd expect it they spent a lot on the costumes, sets, etc. They did a nice job where they went.
This would be very interesting to see where they took it. It has a lot of potential. How good it ends up being would be totally up to how creative the writing staff was. The first adventure wasn't as exciting as it should have been, but it didn't need to be. It was to showcase what could have been done, and how they were going to behave with their new toy.
If you go back and watch the pilots of a lot of shows you love, they were rough, and you wouldn't expect them to make it. It takes time to form a bond with the characters.
I could see strong influences from shows such as Quantum Leap (what), Sliders (why), Stargate (where), and Primeval (same magic, different cause). The "who" was outlined in the pilot, but not really built upon. Nice, but why will there be future episodes? There's a hint for a second episode at the end of the pilot, and another commenter gave the same assumption that I had based on the very limited information given.
It *could* be a great show. It could be horrible. Again, it would be up to the writers to help us form a bond with the characters, and a drive to *want* to see the next episode.
Syfy, give it a chance. What's the worst that could happen. It won't be as bad as Sharktopus, Sharknado, or ... well honestly, you have a huge catalog of horrible shows and movies, with a few good ones mixed in. At least this one doesn't appear to be recycling sets, horrible acting, or even recycled scenes. Yes, the viewers do notice, and we're wary of watching a Syfy productions. -
hugohz-858195 July 2021Didn't like the movie, it was so predictable. The idea is great but I felt it was a amateur production.
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wdi201226 August 2013This is a tale already better told by other shows like Time Tunnel, 7 Days, Eureka, Star Trek's "The City on the Edge of Forever" and the classic novel "The End of Eternity" by Issac Asimov. The basic plot is to go back and change the past in order to change the future. The contradictions in the story are tedious and the plot twists gratuitous. The time travel device is unstable and random, so the 'window' opens for a short time and random location that just happens to give an opportunity to make the major change in the present by killing somebody that kills somebody else that causes the present day bad guy to do what he did, which he does to cause the intervention in the past so he doesn't do what he did, which he did because he doesn't like how events naturally unfold in his life, which if changed he will not know to cause the intervention... this is the classic grandfather paradox we other time travelers know is a loop in time that destroys itself so it never happens. The good guys quickly come up with a poorly thought out plan as the clock ticks down, and they just happen to have the period costumes, maps, old license plate records and obscure biographies to lurch through their mission, with suicide pills in case they don't make it back, since their mere presence in the past will have unpredictable results, (unless they become even more disruptive unidentified corpses), while home base has a magic predictor machine that instantly guesses what will happen. Of course, cold blooded murder is avoided at the end by changing the twice removed bad guy from a career criminal and murderer into a war hero, and saving his sister from dying to boot, which will cause even more disruption by inserting a dead person into the new timeline. The pilot ends with a paradoxical cliffhanger as the maniacal military man comes completely prepared for the random switch to another window and he steps into the past to cause some major change in history. I'm only guessing, but he probably shoots Hitler... or maybe his own grandfather. Tune in to the next episode as our heroes,magically protected by the unstable time portal from the effects of any changes in history,save the day with luck, guts and good looks. No stars for a badly written story and cliché acting.
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webboy-8191627 November 2022The emergency response people in this movie were SO INCREDIBLY STUPID at the start of the movie that it makes my poor brains hurt... WHY didn't they have a cop shoot at the thermo nuclear device thing!?!? That way, it would no longer be a thermo nuclear device but just a dirty bomb... thermo nuclear device=MILLIONS of deaths... dirty bomb=just thousands of people dead or injured at most...
Also the idea that a nobel prize laureate can build a thermo nuclear device was incredibly childish and stupid.... Even though this movie had obvious plot holes, I wish they had made it into a complete series because I love watching time travel movies and stuff... -
eliforal1417 April 2021It is the one of worst movies i have watched. It is incomplete and I dont understand how it has 6 stars. Shame on those who voted 1 for the movie "Looking glass" :)
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Flytdeck29 August 2013*** POSSIBLE spoiler concerning events at end of first show. ***
The Time Machine, Time Tunnel, Quantum Leap, 7 Days, Enterprise, just to name a few. I am a sucker for time travel stories and thoroughly enjoyed REWIND.
The premise may not be the most logical, but I would hope most viewers would understand that this is about people and events, NOT about the method. There is no such technology (so we are to believe) so does it really matter how time travel is initiated? The characters (especially NASA) are solid and a good mix (though the General needs a little more military "polish" to be believable.)
There are enough elements in REWIND to make an excellent series though I would have thought that almost all viewers would twig to the fact that the military gentleman preparing for the cold environment window MUST have come from some future time specifically for this event.
Really looking forward to the next installment and hopefully, a long running series. -
nospmas1939-518-3128876 September 2013Zubacz...............I am afraid that your taste as far as REVOLUTION is/was concerned, was very much out of focus!!
If you are so good a reviewer, and possibly specialise in sci-fi, why don't YOU sit down and write a screen play that will wow the audiences???
Thought is universal, so why don't you think-out-of-the-box and come up with some ideas?
I am looking forwarding to hearing of your success.
I must admit that I was disappointed with REWIND, but I thought that BOREALIS stood a better chance to be picked up by a network, but I don't think that it has.
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Time Tunnel mixed with Quantum Leap, is essentially all you need to know. Nine million people die and it is up to three people to go back into the past and fix it; trouble is they are forced to go back to the late 1920s to find a solution.
Had this show continued we would have been treated to programs such as 'saving the President's life, but having to do it in a 15 hour window in Mongolia circa 947AD' and the like; the possibilities would have been endless.
Real shame 'Rewind' got no further than this solitary episode, particularly with the interesting ending that ultimately leaves us hanging on forever. -
Windrider613 December 2015I was expecting a B movie, but this is great time-travel science fiction! Scientists working with a particle accelerator accidentally create a window into the past. The government wants to use it. They send a team into the past to try to stop a terrorist attack from ever happening.
The science was done fairly well with an explanation for the time travel, but pushed the limits of believability with a computer program that can supposedly predict alternate futures given particular changes in the past.
The depiction of the past was done accurately, and probably cost a lot to do. Maybe the budget for this aspect is what made the prospective TV series fail? The action was great, the first few minutes grabbing the attention and setting up what followed.
The characters were believable and I wanted to get to know them better.
It's too bad the TV series never happened. I would have loved it. -
mysite1315 July 2014Shows lots of promise and is something new and exciting with the whole time travel theme. Come on syfi do the decent thing and have some nuts and put this show into production!!!! here is a brief description of the show : Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack.
Stars :
Shane McRae ... Shaun Knox
Jennifer Ferrin ... Dr. Lyndsay Bryce
Robbie Jones ... Danny
Keon Mohajeri ... Charlie
Keisha Castle-Hughes ... Priya
Jeff Fahey ... Ellis
Kenneth Welsh ... President
Matthew Bennett ... John Malcolm
Paulino Nunes ... General Randall Webb
Melanie Scrofano ... Jessica Knox
David Cronenberg ... Rourke -
brrla17 April 2016Great movie! The end was a bit puzzling at first, but then another review noted that the criminal who would have been killed was spared and became a war hero. The military man may have been him, or someone who knew about him and has figured out the truth about that guardian angel. Anyway, when he dresses for frigid weather and lands in another time, there are caves with animal drawings on them. After having witnessed what happened to New York, the military man despaired of humanity being a force for good on earth and went back to the Caves of Lascaux to eliminate the few humans living at that time. So all goes dark in New York and the rest of the world which never came to be, but was spared the destruction that humans created.
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ComedyFan201024 April 2018When I watched Rewind I didn't know that it was a pilot for a TV show and thought it was a movie. In that case the ending was very disappointing as there is no ending just a cliffhanger with no answers and a lot of potential outcomes. But if this show would have been picked up I could see it being very interesting.
The idea of time travel where one shouldn't change anything isn't new. It reminds one of Butterfly Effect. But it was done in a very decent way. I kept on watching with a lot of interest.
The acting is also pretty good. I was excited to see Jeff Fahey in it. I always like his work and think he is incredibly charismatic. The dialogue in the very beginning is pretty stiff, but it becomes better and I think if the show developed it would improve.