RyothChatty ridiculous rating

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

arthousefilms-68-939717 ******************SPOILER ALERT - This movie had me from the beginning. It was a fun, high-concept, fantasy with quirky story beats and solid casting. I was along for the ride for the whole movie until Oona ends up with the wrong guy at the end, her step-sister's boyfriend. The entire movie was spent building relationship chemistry between Oona and Mikey, only to have it yanked out from us at the end. The ending felt very manipulative and forced because we were rooting for Mikey and Oona to be together.A cool way to have treated this, would have been to have Mikey's newly installed timer zero out in a past time in history when he was at the surprise party and Oona's timer was going off. It could have easily worked that Oona's timer was for Mikey and Steph's boyfriend's timer was for Steph (because she had hers removed). But, I guess if I didn't watch the movie's ending scene, I would have loved this film.

Marina Hass TiMER has an intriguing premise that is not as sci-fi as it may initially appear. With okcupid match percentages and other forms of rating and quantifying romance, are we really that far off from our own transdermal love timers? Some reviewers criticized TiMER's plot holes and unconvincing character development, particularly in light of the unexpected and unsatisfactory ending. But really, what kind of ending did you expect? For a film that critiques the impact of technology on human agency --which extends to larger discourses regarding fate and predestination -- I found the ending to be appropriately bleak. It seems to be that Oona and Dan are trying to convince themselves that the timer is accurate...trying to reason their way into falling in love because the odds are on their side.(And by the way, I do not buy Oona's "independent woman" routine of superficial empowerment at all). If we see the ending as Oona and Dan's way of slowly fulfilling the timer's prophecy, then paradoxically they are using their new-found agency (i.e. ignoring the timer) to get closer to each other --whether by coincidence or "fate." This might be intended to make viewers question the other timer matches in the film; is love just something that you fall into because a higher power --in this case, biotechnology -- compels you to? This puts into question other ordinances of predestination and our compulsion (whether it's peer pressure, a desire for a higher purpose, etc) to put blind faith into them. TiMER is not a cinematic masterpiece, nor is it striving to be. Regardless, it really made me reflect on notions of human agency, biotechnology, fate and predestination the way any impactful film should.

cdschuett I don't think I have seen a movie so thoroughly fail the Bechdel test. The women in this movie would simply vanish from existence without a man to define their lives by. Plus, as other reviewers have said, the ending is a bit of a let down. If the point of this movie was to tell us how spontaneity and romance should be stamped out and destroyed, then message received. What I will say about the ending though is that it was a bit of a surprise. I thought they would play up the irony of how Oona would get rid of her timer just as her spontaneous boyfriend got his and decided to settle down a bit. The switch was a pleasant twist. Despite this, the movie is well shot and looks beautiful and it was delightful to see Emma Caulfield again. I wish she would work more. I wish there was more of the old man in the nursing home. He was a hoot.

copperncherrio An interesting concept, in a world where everyone has a timer that tells them when they are going to meet their soul mate. It counts down and will beep once you make eye contact with them. But only when your soul mate gets a timer does yours start counting down.Our main character Uma's timer has yet to start and kind of countdown. Her sister's timer says that she won't meet her soul mate until she is 40 years old.The concept is unique and entertaining. It's a fun movie to watch when you just want something simple and pleasant, but done well. This is the movie for you. It's heavier on the Romantic side and less so on the comedy side.