An air-crash investigation uncovers visitors from a polluted future. The time-travel puzzle has interesting ideas, while awkward romantic manoeuvring and eccentric futuristic details make the route to them decidedly less dignified.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
Acting
6/10
Plot
8/10
Effects
4/10
Dialogue
6/10
Rewatchability
6.5/10
“The accident investigation has a scheduling paradox.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 61
Synopsis and movie facts
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.