Better Late Then Never

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

I first caught this film in the same way as many of the reviewers here, by catching it as a featured film in the ":30 Minute Movie" segments on Showtime, hosted by Rob Reiner, back in the early 90's. My wife and I were both instantly captivated by the story, which was later remade into a terrible feature-length film, and later modified to become "Groundhog Day." Kurtwood Smith was an inspired choice to play the main character, and the limitations of the 59-minute time frame made his frenzied efforts to escape his inescapable fate all the more terrifying. The ending, while old hat now (since it's been remade again and again), was fresh and shocking for it's time. You ached for Smith's character. The ending haunted me for a long time.This needs to be released as a special feature on an upcoming release of "Groundhog Day," or needs to be released in it's own right. What a fabulous piece of storytelling.T

This guy has shown up in so many things and perhaps best known from "That 70s Show", but if you ever saw 12:01 PM, you would have a new appreciation for his talent. This short is extremely well written about the frustrations of going through a time loop over and over for an endless eternity. In the process, he experiences so many things that we may take for granted. During one of his hours, he falls in love with a young lady in the park, then as his hours begins anew, she no longer knows him. During another hour, he helps needy person who others prefer to torment. Then during yet another, he sees a newspaper with an article that a scientist predicted this might happen. He calls him to discuss it, learns a little, then on the next loop he rushes to see him. When he finds that there is nothing he can do, he realizes there is no way out of his situation, so he wrestles a gun from a security guard and blows his own brains out only to find himself standing back on that same corner at the end of the hour as he has and always will. Kurtwood Smith delivers the pain and frustration like no one else could. This short made me a big fan of his. If you get a chance, watch this short! It's truly a 10.

This was a corker of a short SF film - highly intelligent writing, and loads better than Heap's full length remake a few years later - which had an unnecessary happy ending - and tons better than the (undeservedly) better known Groundhog Day.Last seen on Channel 4 in the UK about 12 years ago, and never commercially released, as far as I can tell ... if anyone's got this on video please get in touch - maybe we can trade. Cheers

This is a great science fiction short story in the vein of Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, and Spider Robinson, with the science integrated in the storyline, and not in advanced technology.Kurtwood Smith is excellent as a man caught in a 59 minute time loop. He slowly realizes what's going on, and tries to figure out how to stop it. Many have tried to equate this with Groundhog Day (another excellent film), but this story is much darker, where Smith is in a more dire situation as his character frantically tries to find a physicist who might be able to help. Can he escape?