Better Late Then Never

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This movie is intriguing although at some points it has a weird tempo. At those moments I thought to myself: "Please get on with the story". Just two examples: (1) right from the start with the woman under water and (2) a lot of time was spent on the scene where Evan and Jessica show their interest in each other for the first time.And now for the spoiler and my addition to all the other possible explanations.I guess the main idea is to figure it out yourself! There aren't many clues that help to get a 100% certainty about the explanation. So this one isn't a 100% certain either.My second explanation: The whole crowd (including the people that are outside of the building) is in a time loop. Jessica is the only one who will be able to break that loop (for everyone else to move on with their lives). In attempt #903259 she finally realizes that she has to stay with Evan to get redemption for leaving her little brother when he was drowning while she was saving herself. It shows a form of sacrifice that is no sacrifice at all because she actually should have drowned with her little brother and will also die when she tries to save her own life by leaving Evan (although she most probably doesn't know that in attempt #903259). Proof for the explanation of being able to break the loop: when she watches the video labeled "Big surprise: failed attempt" she sees herself talking to Evan about the "fact" that people change and their essence too! Although not totally relevant, possibly she somehow "remembered" from a previous attempt, just like everyone else in the apartment somehow remember something but not enough to be able to tell Jessica the whole story even though they all know about Jessica's role in their life.Possibly this proof shows the purpose of the movie. Note that even when we live our lives an ENDLESS number of times, we can change over time, but since time is ENDLESS we don't change. It's a time/change-paradox (i.e. the only thing in life that never changes is that everything will keep on changing). Still, when you finally realize your lesson in life, take that chance!So, in this movie, every time Jessica gets another chance to stay with Evan. In attempt #903259 she finally takes that chance. So much for your regular second chances in life ;-)I recommend you to give this movie a second chance. For example, review the pieces you believe you need to see again to figure out your own explanation. Good luck and most important ... have fun!

The first option is to hate this movie. This is for idiots who don't like it when the movie isn't described perfectly to them and it isn't all wrapped up in a neat little bow by the end. If you choose option 1, then you're the person that got John from Cincinatti taken off the air for being "too confusing" and we probably wouldn't ever get along anyway.However, if you saw the movie, and you like movies that leave open ends for thought discussion, then I have comprised two different theories on how the characters played into one another: ***SPOILERS BELOW*** OPTION 1: Ned and friends admit a new girl to the building who ends up burning the place down. However, they wake up the next morning like nothing happened, and lo! The girl is moving in again and has no memory of what happened! As they look and ask around to one another, they realize it's not tomorrow, it's the same day over again. It's Groundhog Day in reverse. Instead of the main character being the only one aware, she's the only one who isn't. Once that day plays out in awkwardness, they wake up and it's the same day again. So, over time, these people try absolutely everything to figure out how to get this day to move on. They try every trick in the book, right down to telling her on select days that she's living in a loop. They get used to her needing new toothbrushes and exactly when her light is going to go out because, well, do the math. They've had almost 2500 YEARS to get to know this girl and her pattern. I can tell you anything about my brother and I've only known him for 29 years. Law of Averages would make certain that they've tried everything they could, using their constant recordings and what not. Anyways, they eventually figure out the near-perfect way to play the day out for her to be faced with the exact scenario in which she must make the choice; she needs to choose to stay with Evan. After that, everyone else finally gets to move on to tomorrow. Evan and our fated chickadee finally go into the light after she finally makes the correct decision in the second chance she begged for after the death of her brother. Their hostility towards her would be explained by the fact that all of them had led simple artist lives until the day she came along and put them in a 2500 year curse. They didn't ask for that. She landed it on them.OPTION 2: Ned and friends are agents that do this stuff eternally. A woman begs for a second chance at being willing to sacrifice herself to save a loved one. Upon her death, she goes into Limbo and her rites begin. To put the more celestial approach on it, Evan is a variation of her guardian angel, while the rest are more of a facilitating nature. They put the situation down the way it is, and Evan is the cooling factor as well as her appointed focus. He helps her through and nudges her in the right directions while the rest are fed up with her taking so long to move on. I'm less inclined to believe this theory over my first one, because they all seem pretty peeved about the fact that they have to keep dying, what with them constantly expressing their anguish towards how she will kill them. However it would explain why everyone else survives once she makes the right choice, and also why Evan disappeared with her.I gave it a 7 instead of a 10. I did this because they left it "too open" and too open means holes. Even as I put the two theories together, I had to put parts of the movie into one, and other parts into the other. There's no explanation I have found that completely covers everything shown in the movie. It just means they could have run a tighter ship, but I liked the concept very much.

It's very predictable right from the beginning. Having the opening fire scene followed by "Jessica" in her car singing "I'm going to set my soul on fire..." it gave everything away. There were a few oh my goodness moments, but they weren't enough. Having things or people appearing and disappearing was way too convenient. The damsel in distress storyline has been done way too many times, why can't people add a twist to it or something instead of adding unnecessary information to prolong an already established point.They had a great concept, but personally it seemed rushed and not well thought through.

Web serial tale of a girl who moves into a building where strange things begin to happen and people begin to die as everything seems to be recorded. Its patentedly weird for weird's sake with the building managers office in an elevator and a weird assortment of characters that exist only in films.This may have worked as a series of five minute parts on line had someone decided to make this have some connection to reality they didn't, they just tried to go from pillar to post to try and keep you interested but it never really worked and I found I was fighting to see it through to the end in the hope it would mean something. Now comes the prospect of seeing this as a full fledged feature film (Paramount is releasing it to DVD) which means this is going to be a very stupid movie. I made it to the end and wondered why I bothered since none of it made any sense even internally. It was a very big waste of time.