Totally fun sci-fi comedy. Rhys Darby, who I always liked in "Flight Of The Conchords", is a hapless time traveler stuck in our time and just looking to enjoy his life in the time before an unspeakable tragedy remakes the world in several decades. Could sit comfortably in a film festival as a little brother to "Buckaroo Bonzai" and other such classic geeky indie sci-fi comedies. I liked it.
A Canadian production filmed in Toronto, which makes sense, and continues to uphold the Canadian film industry's weirdly solid batting average in my experience. And, as probability would then indicate, therefore, it features Julian Richings—this time playing way against type as a nebbishy illustrator.
This is probably near the bottom of the films in my "honorable mentions" category, as some of those are real gems and very rewatchable, whereas this is just kind of a solidly above-average, enjoyable effort... I didn't love it, but, I definitely liked it, without qualification, all the way through, as I think anyone who enjoys this type of geeky comedy would. Canada scores again. They do seem to care about making good movies up there.
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