Retroactive

Published on: 3rd February, 2010

Retroactive



If you could leap back in time and change the past, would you? If you did, could you face the consequences? A young woman comes face to face with these tantalizing questions in this action-packed sci-fi thriller.

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Every now and again I have the opportunity to sit and watch watch older films and have myself a flashback moment.  This flashback moment is brought to you by Retroactive.  This film was released in 1997, and after watching it I don’t know how I missed it when it first hit.  I was all about the time travel stuff back then, and I still am!  Retroactive is directed by Louis Moreau and stars James Belushi, Kylie Travis and Shannon Whirry.  The movie is a literal roller coaster ride through the effects of Time Travel and changing past events.

The movie begins with a scientist named Brain working on a time travel project at a super collider facility somewhere in Texas in the middle of nowhere. The goal of his project is not only to send someone back int time, but to send them back retaining the memories and experiences of events before they went back in time.  I really believe this is very intuitive writing in the story line.  Most time travel movies people go back and remember everything,  where as this movie says that if you go back in time you can’t have memories of events that haven’t taken place yet.  Brain succeeds and is able to send a mouse back in time that remembers everything.

One of the more enjoyable aspects of this film is it get right to it.  Right after the intro explaining the time travel aspect of the film it jump right in the action showing Belushi’s character Frank receiving stolen computer microchips which he intends to sell.   After getting the goods he heads down the road with his wife Rayanne played by  Shannon Whirry.  Next we are presented with Kylie Travis’s character Karen who is a Chicago hostage negotiator running away from her past.  While daydreaming she wreaks her car and is picked up by Frank and Rayanne.  The events that happen next end with Karen witnessing a murder and running for her life into the desert.  She stumbles upon the facility where Brian is and takes a wrong turn and ends up getting sent back.

In order not to give away too much I’ll sum it up like this.  From this point on the movie takes you on so many twists and turns as Karen tries to fix things.  With each trip back more and more is revealed about the people and what is really going on in the middle of nowhere Texas desert.  This movie may not be the greatest thing you will see, but its not boring. Its a very fun movie to watch, and you wont have a hard time with the Time Travel theories it presents.

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