A drama turns into something a bit more sinister as you navigate the set pieces of “Synchronic”. The movie details a few story lines leading to an interesting concept, and one that is deserving of mention, time travel. Those long time readers of mine know that time travel fascinates me from a scientific stand point, and really that’s what the movie is about, but not in the traditional scope. In fact, it comes with a little bit more nuance, and that’s what makes this movie a little more than meets the eye.
You get started in the movie with a simple premise, a couple
of EMTS are dealing with constant overdoses. They are dealing with overdoses
with a designer drug. This drug is starting to show up at all the calls the EMT
crew gets, and they are starting to cause deaths. When one of the calls finds
an EMT’s daughter missing, things go off the rails and the search goes on for
them, meanwhile our main hero is diagnosed with a specific form of cancer in
the brain. This all ties together somehow, but I won’t reveal how.
Through the course of the film we discover that the drug of
choice is really a mechanism for time travel, but with a limited scope of resonance
and time. This introduces our hero to a whole new set of possibilities, and
lends itself into a rescue mission concerning time travel, limited resources,
and of course past and present colliding.
Overall “Synchronic” is going to either bore you to death or
it is going to intrigue you with some above average acting, and set pieces that
are really well done. While this is not a movie that gained a lot of attention
upon release, it is definitely one that holds up well in the chronicles of time
travel movies. It’s slow paced, but it draws you in with every larger set
piece, and eventually gives you something to cheer for and doesn’t let go of
the tension. It’s nuanced, it’s cinema worthy, and definitely a movie you don’t
want to miss if you’re a fan of time travel.
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