Film Review – Synchronicity

Time travel pictures used to be wild creations that had fun with visions of the far future and the distant past. Independent moviemaking tastes erased all that, with 2004’s “Primer” changing the game, inspiring productions to take the details of time travel with the utmost seriousness, working overtime to decode the science of fiction. “Synchronicity” is the latest installment of furrowed-brow filmmaking, with writer/director Jacob Gentry (“The Signal”) trying to warm up the subgenre with passion, mixing the needs of the heart with tears in time. “Synchronicity” is a laudable attempt at mood and emotionality, but its ways with repetition and performance test patience, reducing the potency of its mysteries. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com