Beyond the Infinite Two minutes (2012) film

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My Rating **** Genre – Sci- Fi Run Time – 1 hr 10 Minutes. Certificate – 15 Country – Japan Awards – 5 Wins & 2 Nominations = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = So who doesn’t like a time travel movie, always fun and rarely bungled, right? There are back in time movies and there are forward in time movies and there are time altering movies and all of those things together movies but this one seems unique and very cleverly done. How they filmed this must have been very technical and hard work as it’s so intricate and smart on screen you can imagine the Japanese director pulling his hair out to make sure he didn’t mess up over making the plot to confusing or silly on screen. Kito Kazunari - Kato Riko Fujitani - Aya Gôta Ishida - Komiya Masashi Suwa - Tanabe Yoshifumi Sakai - Ozawa Haruki Nakagawa - Narita Munenori Nagano - Kinjo Takashi Sumita - Furuya Chikara Honda - Ishizuka Twenty-something cafe owner Kato (Kito Kazunari) lives in the flat above his own café in a non-descript suburb of Tokyo. In his room whilst watching TV he suddenly gets a message from himself on the TV screen. How can this be? Is it a fancy app, someone playing a trick, or something unexplained? It appears to be him and his other self instructs him to go down stairs to look in the TV the cafe. On the TV he sees himself back upstairs doing things he hasn’t done yet? He learns that the TV screen in his cafe is two minutes ahead of time. When his visiting friends discover this, although freaked out, they play around with it. When the bedroom monitor is bought down stairs and placed opposite the other TV they learn the time leap Is now 4 minutes They get another TV and another TV as the time gap grows.. But they get into trouble when they use the Time TV to try and get money, love and knowledge somehow... The money they do get turns out to belong to some gangsters, who show up looking for it, which plays out on the screens on what’s about to happen to them. ===Results=== Although quite a short movie so to restrain and contain its clever premise from getting out of control it’s still worth a watch, if just for its ingenuity and craft. There is no messing about here with scene setting and you are straight into the action and premise, which is a little complicated but the cast explain it well with comedy and jeopardy so you can stick with it. It’s known as the Droste Effect, also explained in the movie. There are flaws but if you suspend your disbelief its fine. Would you go forward and do as you are told by your future self if you are seeing its bad two minutes from now? The point is whatever you chose to do it will come up on the screen two minutes later so you can’t change the future. As I say it’s a smart piece of filmmaking. I enjoyed it greatly and good to see original film still out there in this time of making films by Netflix spreadsheet to make sure they at least make the money back. Japanese films are always quirky in acting and plotting in their own way and I always look out for them on TV and DVD. One to watch. ===RATINGS=== Imdb.com 7.3 /10.0 (2,700votes) Rottentomatos.com –90% critic’s approval Metacritic.com –78 % critic’s approval ===Trailer=== https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14500584/