As with most good thrillers, there are plenty of “ooooooohhhhh !” moments, as things start to make sense.ĭue to the short nature and lack of backstory, the characters are little bit drab and it is at times a little hard to understand some motives and actions that they do, based on the information we have been given. This film does know where it is going, you’ve just got to bear with it while you get there. Things do start to seem to get a little bit repetitive for the first few loops, and I was left wondering – where are we going from here? If you do end up watching this film – stick with it. As I guess you might expect from a time-loop scenario. For the purpose of this film, I don’t actually really care how we got to this situation – I’m just intrigued by this time loop and what the hell is going on.Īs I said, this film does take a little while to get going. The great thing about this film is the unravelling of the situation. This film focuses on the “this is happening right now” and doesn’t worry greatly about how we got here. This film runs at just about an hour and a half so to be fair, you don’t get too much more detail of back story other than that. What you need to know is, there is some kind of war going on, there is a machine that could possibly end the war, oh and there is a time loop going on. And I have to say, that is pretty much the perfect summary for this movie. This is a thriller, so I’m not going to go into detail about the movie so as not to include any spoilers – this is definitely a spoiler free zone. They must figure out how to stop the time loop and come out of it alive.ĪRQ premieres at TIFF and hits Netflix on September 16th.This film was recommended to me as “a slow burner, but worth a watch”. The catch is, the technology has created a time loop that causes them to relive a deadly home invasion over and over again. In a future where corporations battle against sovereign nations over the last of the world’s energy supplies, young engineer Renton and Hannah find themselves attempting to save an experimental energy technology that could end the wars. The film is an official selection of the 2016 Toronto Film Festival. What remains is whether or not an effective, visually arresting piece of sci-fi can be conjured by writer-director Tony Elliot - who has penned and story-edited episodes of Orphan Black, along with helming two shorts before this feature debut. See the trailer and a poster below, for the film that also stars Jacob Neayenem, Shaun Benson, and Adam Butcher.ĪRQ, starring Robbie Amell (The Flash) and Rachael Taylor (Jessica Jones) is a Netflix original film set in a dystopian society, written and directed by Tony Elliott (Orphan Black). However, considering how quickly Tom Cruise is able to catch Emily Blunt up on current affairs each time he loops by the midpoint of that film, I’m not sure this is much of a twist. Ahead of a premier at Toronto International Film Festival this week, Netflix has released their first trailer for a new original release titled ARQ, a sci-fi mind-bender about a couple ( Robbie Amell and Rachael Taylor) who are stuck in a time loop and must figure out just what the heck is going on before they die - and wake up - and die again.Īttempting to separate itself in ways from something like Edge of Tomorrow, a twist on the “same day again” genre in ARQ seems to be that both characters start to remember the time loop.
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