Directed By: Nicole Clifford
Written By: Alice Fulcher and Gregory Erdstein
Based on a Story by: Heather Wilson
Cinematography: Simon Ozolins
Editor: Julie-Anne De Ruvo
Cast: Emily Browning, Aisha Dee, Sean Keenan, Ashley Zuckerman, Pallavi Sharda, Hamish Michael, Anna McGahan, Contessa Treffone
New Year’s Eve 1999. Minnie discovers a bottle of Time Traveling Tequila. Each shot takes her back to the start of the night, giving her a bottle’s worth of shots to change the course of her millennium.
This movie takes the familiar groundhog‘s Day formula and places it on a single nurse reuniting with college friends in 1999 when it’s about to become the year 2000 and thanks to a magical tequila which when she takes a shot of brings her back to the exact moment that she arrives at the party she tries to get it right each time to have a successful romantic reunion with her ex
The film follows the formula of each time things going drastically wrong and throughout the film learning it’s less about her and more about the relationships and people surrounding her. That makes for many times when you think the main character is finally going to learn their lesson and move on, but then still keeps making the same mistakes just in different ways that by the third act and there is a little surprise as we find out, she might not be the only one who is having or has had this experience
The cast is committed to the material. It’s just one wishes the material was a little bit richer as the film should somewhat being ensemble, but it seems to only remember this when it comes to the third act before that is pretty much a one-woman show for lead. Emily Browning, who I am a fan of and finally gets a chance to shine in lighter material than she is usually in
Going for the more traditional romantic comedy and then just general comedy that does have a few Macabre moments. That is much darker than the usual GROUNDHOG DAY plot devices.
It’s just that the film is never quite funny enough nor compelling enough so that it comes across as only OK even with its familiar material. it remains entertaining enough and what help salad is that there isn’t any big comedian in the film so you don’t have to watch their so-called stick it’s more just actors which makes it a little more believable no matter how silly they might get.
Though at times it feels like it’s Stretching to fit in some more comedy at times when the Main character makes truly baffling decisions.
The film for all its cynical beginnings develops a heart throughout which then kind of cancels the first half though it might be the film and filmmaker trying to show not only the growth of characters, but also the growth of material and the film maturing.
It seems set in the millennium just for the soundtracks sake which it doesn’t do much with and maybe to keep cellphones out of the equation and explain certain costume choices,but other then that could have stayed modern.
Let though it’s entertaining enough and a good time waster if you do want to check it out and it’s fine for what it is. The draw here is Emily Browning
Grade: C
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