SPOILER ALERT - CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK. NO COMPLAINING LATER!!
So, you've been warned, and now comes the review. I went into this movie thinking it looked interesting. The trailer looks pretty cool -
The movie starts off alright, with a young cop, with aspirations of becoming a detective, trying to resolve some odd crimes. He finds a connection between the way the victims are killed, but no connection between them otherwise. His brother-in-law, played by Michael C. Hall of Dexter fame, plays an ambitious detective, who ends up being a minor role in the whole thing. One victim, who doesn't die right away, mentions that the suspect seems abnormally strong, and we see that she moves very fast, and seems very capable, more than you'd think normal for a young woman. Said suspect is a young black woman, in a hoodie, with very short hair. Well, the suspect ends up in front of a train, and does not survive. Before that, though, she talks about his daughter, who hasn't yet been born, and other odd details about his life, that she'd seemingly have no way of knowing. The killings are bizarre, too, with a short order cook, a concert pianist, and a bus driver being the targets, all dying from sudden and unexplained hemorrhaging, with marks on the bacs of their necks. Other than the one victim we see speak before she dies, an unknown dance club patron, there is no explanation of when the other people received said marks. Since that woman stated this was painful, it's odd that this is left unexplained. Plot hole #1. When a description is given, we then see what seems to be half the young black women in Philly being arrested, as suspects, even though most don't fit the description very well. All are photographed holding up their hands, since the suspect supposedly had an injured wrist. "Hands up, don't shoot" reference, I am sure. Smooth way to insert that one, since you almost don't notice. In case I didn't mention it, all victims were white. Ah, almost forgot, before all of this, we see a scene from the future, showing the town in tatters, no people round, alarms sounding. Anyway, this tie ends with his wife giving birth, and dying, and him left to raise his daughter alone. At one crime scene, a book about one of the Founding Fathers is seen lying on the street.
Fast forward to nine years later. In the streets, there are protests, with people demanding "justice" for this poor black woman, unrightfully "thrown in front of a train" by a white cop. Oh, yeah, it's a bit anti-cop too. And, no, she wasn't thrown; she basically fell in front of it, and the cop was on the ground, after being attacked by her, at the time. But, hey, why ruin a good protest with facts, right? Then, to everyone's surprise, the killings start again. Same method, and they have video of what seems to be the same woman, who is supposed to be dead. The same cop, now a detective, cautions against revealing this information, but the lieutenant (his brother-in-law) does so anyway, and riots take place. We are led to believe that releasing the information, and warning the public, was a bad idea, because black feeling would be hurt. Hence the riots. Not their fault, though; all the fault of the LT who held the press conference, right? They re-examine the old evidence, apparently neglected after the suspect was killed, and find that a key fro back in '88 belongs to a plane not built till that current year, '97. Weird, eh? Cue the intense Indian physicist type, talking about time travel and moon phases, and claiming his research and the case seem to be connected. No one wants to listen to him. The cop and his partner (who just happens to be black) go to the airfield, where they expect to find a plane belonging to that key. Parner lingers outside the fence, while the cop/detective vaults it, breaking the rules, to simply walk in and question a nighttime employee. Because, gee, they couldn't just talk to the guy? No reason to vault the fence is given, really. Seems to be a "watch the white cop break the rules" sort of moment, and that's been happening throughout the movie. Well, the night employee is acting strangely, and the cop figures someone is there, and they do a decent job of him subtly getting the truth, and then out pops the suspect. Same woman, of course, even though she's supposed to be dead. No explanation as to why she's there (plot hole #2), however, and no one killed there, and she ends up shooting and killing his partner, who walks in and surprises her, taking the cop into the plane, more odd dialogue occurs, with more hints of time travel, and then she tosses him from the plane. Not super high, but not all that low, and he hits the water, should have died, somehow didn't. LT is ticked at him, they can't locate her anywhere, though the plane is crashed on the beach where he comes ashore, and the case is cold again. There are scenes showing him and the daughter, with him seeming to be not as connected as he could be, as though he's unable to function, even nine years later.
Fast forward another nine years, and we find the now former cop, scruffy and bearded and looking homeless, still obsessed with the case, with his daughter being raised by her aunt and uncle. While all around hi label him as crazy, he tracks down a victim they supposedly missed, as it was in another jurisdiction (never mind computer connections that would make this unlikely, even back then - plot hole #3), and learns the guy was soe sort of "militant" sort, a supposed "white supremacist", though they are vague in stating that, and that he sent out his propaganda in books about the Founding Fathers. "America is evil" is the clear message of the scene. Then, stealing the badge of his brother-in-law, using it to get the address of the guy's former wife/GF, only to find her already hit by the same suspect, in the same fashion, he pursues her, shoots her in the wrist, supposedly accounting for the injury mentioned all those years earlier, and ends up following her into a drainage pipe, to a chamber containing what we can only assume is some sort of time machine. She vanishes yet again.
Another nine years into the future, the guy is living in his car, and his daughter is grown, and apparently married, and expecting a child. The brother-in-law keeps telling the guy he needs help, and won't listen to his ideas. We see that the Indian scientist (remember him?) is doing research on pigs, killing them by implanting devices in their necks, that can then cause the massive hemorrhaging and brain damage we saw in the victims, and he speaks of being able to do that across time someday. At this stage, it's clear he's working to cause killings, not prevent them. He seems quite gleeful. When the former cop encounters the suspect yet again, by waiting outside the drain pipe, they have a conversation about who she is, and what she is doing, and it's revealed she is his granddaughter, and that he supposedly sent her on her mission. The ission? Oh, yeah, you'll love this - kill anyone who ever taught someone else an idea you don't like. Yes, seriously. Supposedly, "evil white supremacists" would, in the "near future", set of bombs across the nation, sparking a civil war, and causing millions of deaths. No explanation as to how, or why, such a war would occur from an act of terrorism, but hey, it's white guys, so anything goes, right? Supposedly, kiling them wouldn't be enough; you have to kill the ideas, and the people who taught them to think as they do. Parents, grandparents, teachers, politicians, whoever. Killing all these people, who did nothing wrong, is stated to be a "good thing", because supposedly this would prevent bad things from happening down the line. The whole message is that, if you disagree with what someone thinks, you can kill them and it's justified. Same sort of BS that Antifa types and others push, that anyone who doesn't agree with them is an enemy to be destroyed. And, we are apparently supposed to applaud this nonsense.
Well, not happening. The movie only has about a 61% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and most user reviews I've read state that the SJW political BS is glaring, and pan the movie. I a sure most stupid critics liked it, because it fits their hateful intolerant worldview. Hate white people, hate America, hate cops, and on and on. Through all of this, we are given no explanation for her supposed great strength or speed - plot hole #3 - and no real explanation of any of the supposed science behind the time travel/moon phase connection, or any real explanation of how all of these people were supposedly evil, though a few were stated to have been on the mailing list of the "white supremacist". Anyone could be killed, because they might teach someone the "wrong things", and riots are a valid means of silencing information, and cops are bad, and white people are bad, and America is bad, and all of this can be stopped by a black girl with a guy's haircut, who is, of course,
killed by her white grandfather.
That most of this BS isn't revealed until nearly the end of the movie was clever, I'll give credit, and the acting wasn't terrible, but the whole story is full of plot holes, and the political motivations make the entire thing disappointing in the extreme. What happens when some idiot fans of this nonsense, already bolstered by their own BLM or Antifa ties, decide to go around killing innocent people, because those people support the president, or are white, or fly a flag outside their homes, or whatever? Will the idiots that made this film be held responsible for inciting violence? Because, make no mistake, that is exactly what they are doing. Right before an election, too. This isn't the only film pushing radical Leftist ideas, either. I've read about some others.
Remember, these are the same people that want to disarm you, to silence you with labels, to control everything your children learn. Because, gee, tolerance means killing off the opposition, right? Oh, wait...
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