Retroactive

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Summary: Retroactive-Good Movie only because it's Time Travel
Review: I thought this movie was great the first time I saw it. But it gets boring the more you watch it. It still is a good movie. Just doesn't look like they took the time to come up with an elaborate story. It's like playing a video game and messing up then having to reset it and try again knowing what to expect. Like you're in one level and just can't beat it cause you keep on doing things wrong. Then at the end you finally figure out the right choice and make it past it. Then again, if time travel was ever to happen in real life, this most likely is what it would be like. Just replaying your life within the last hour. I don't think it'll ever be where we can have excellent adventures going back to other centuries or possibly other decades. But I do like this movie okay. It isn't as cool after the first time because you know what's going to happen. As you watch it the first time, it is amazing to see what is going to happen after what choice each character makes knowing what will happen in the next few moments. As long as the villain doesn't know, but that does eventually come to be a problem. Okay Sci-fi Adventure Story! But more adventurous ones are even better. More action.

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Summary: Full of surprises
Review: I'll be honest. I didn't watch "Retroactive" for James Belushi or Kylie Travis (the Australian actress in Aaron Spelling's "Models Inc." TV series). In fact, I did a search for Shannon Whirry and stumbled on this one. Turned out I really enjoyed it -- although Shannon was 100% different from her roles in "Private Obsession" or "Mirror Images". Apart from being surprised by a fully dressed Shannon Whirry who gave a pretty cool performance, I found this movie amazingly good for a sci-fi that didn't have to rely on computerized visual effects. (By the way, now that a remake of "The Time Machine" just came out, the "old" version with Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux still remains one of my favorites in the genre).... Well, "Retroactive" also got part of its plot based on the "time travel" concept, and some twists and turns probably borrowed from "Back To The Future". But let's not overlook this film's own charm: the Texas "heat" that could be felt throughout its 90 minutes (and got Kylie Travis to sweat quite a lot). That atmosphere alone would deserve another star.

Rating:
Summary: Full of surprises
Review: I'll be honest. I didn't watch "Retroactive" for James Belushi or Kylie Travis (the Australian actress in Aaron Spelling's "Models Inc." TV series). In fact, I did a search for Shannon Whirry and stumbled on this one. Turned out I really enjoyed it -- although Shannon was 100% different from her roles in "Private Obsession" or "Mirror Images". Apart from being surprised by a fully dressed Shannon Whirry who gave a pretty cool performance, I found this movie amazingly good for a sci-fi that didn't have to rely on computerized visual effects. (By the way, now that a remake of "The Time Machine" just came out, the "old" version with Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux still remains one of my favorites in the genre).... Well, "Retroactive" also got part of its plot based on the "time travel" concept, and some twists and turns probably borrowed from "Back To The Future". But let's not overlook this film's own charm: the Texas "heat" that could be felt throughout its 90 minutes (and got Kylie Travis to sweat quite a lot). That atmosphere alone would deserve another star.

Rating:
Summary: Full of surprises
Review: I'll be honest. I didn't watch "Retroactive" for James Belushi or Kylie Travis (the Australian actress in Aaron Spelling's "Models Inc." TV series). In fact, I did a search for Shannon Whirry and stumbled on this one. Turned out I really enjoyed it -- although Shannon was 100% different from her roles in "Private Obsession" or "Mirror Images". Apart from being surprised by a fully dressed Shannon Whirry who gave a pretty cool performance, I found this movie amazingly good for a sci-fi that didn't have to rely on computerized visual effects. (By the way, now that a remake of "The Time Machine" just came out, the "old" version with Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux still remains one of my favorites in the genre).... Well, "Retroactive" also got part of its plot based on the "time travel" concept, and some twists and turns probably borrowed from "Back To The Future". But let's not overlook this film's own charm: the Texas "heat" that could be felt throughout its 90 minutes (and got Kylie Travis to sweat quite a lot). That atmosphere alone would deserve another star.

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Summary: Excellent. You can't believe what do you see
Review: Is a good movie with a good story. Is for a fiction fan. Imagine that you can back on the time and remember each time, the last time that you were there. I recommend it a lot.

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Summary: Very Cool Video....A Definite Video To Watch....
Review: Just a great movie

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Summary: Great thriller; fast-paced and lots of fun.
Review: Retroactive stars the unbelievably hot Kylie Travis as a cop who keeps going back in time to relive a disastrous situation with a psychopath (James Belushi) on a lonely desert road. Plot-wise, I won't say anymore, but there are lots of nice twists and turns, and best of all, some of the most wildly exciting action sequences I've seen all year. The car chases are fast and thrilling, the shootouts are intense, and the unpredictability of it all keeps you on the edge of your seat. The cast is excellent, with top-notch performances from Travis, Belushi, and Frank Whaley as the scientist who built the time travel device. Retroactive, despite a not so promising title, is definitely a must see thriller.

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Summary: Belushi makes the movie
Review: Stock fare about going back in time via a hi-tech device ( in this case, repeatedly ) until you get things right. Belushi is the psycho on the loose killer, making the movie run along quite nicely. Nothing new here folks, move right along!

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Summary: Quantum Leap meets Groundhog Day.
Review: The flick stars James Belushi as Frank, a psycotic killer with violent mean streak & temper, Kylie Travis, a semi-big star then from the UK, as Karen, a psychologist from Michigan who becomes hostage negotiator, & Shannon Whirry as Rayanne, Frank's ex who is killed brutally. It also features Frank Whaley as Brian, a young & handsome scientist who just perfected a time machine & Roger Clinton as a truck driver.
Karen has a flat tire, so she pulls over by the side of the road & gets picked up by Frank & Rayanne. Frank immediately stars to spook Karen by getting pissed off over little things. Rayanne tells him to calm down & get over it, but Frank doesn't listen to her. He picks up a gun after some tense dialog, Rayanne says she's gonna be killed by him, he fires it & kills her. Frank pulls over some time later on & Karen escapes to a lab where Brian is at.
Karen introduces herself to Brian & says she needs some help. Brian, after then, reveals his time machine to her. She goes into the machine & sets the time back to a couple of hours ago. Instead of fixing the problem she relives the same scenario as before except of course, things are more out of hand & unpredictable now. Frank on the 2nd time to the lab, pulls over his car & chases her with gun, but doesn't pursue her to the lab. She goes back into the machine again & tries it again. This time, things seem to be all right until she relives the same scenario over again. It takes her 3 or 4 times to get it right, on her final attempt, Frank chases her into the lab, & threatens to kill everybody if she doesn't come back to him. The time when she gets it right, she kills Frank & drives off into the sunset behind the wheel of his car.
It has some decent acting, but nothing too memorable. A lot of the dialog is fairly good, but some is really lame for sci-fi action. The special effects are really good & shine in this flick. The camerawork is good, as is the directing. I din't care for the music too much, it wasn't too bad, but just seemed out of place for the movie.
Grade: 6 out of 10.
Run time: 91 minutes.
Rated R for language & violence.

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Summary: She's sexy; she time travels; she kicks butt.
Review: This has been a favorite of mine since the second time I saw it. Not that I did not like it the first time; I had seen it on cable but could not remember the name until I came across a used copy about 4 years later. I have since watched it several times and always enjoy it. Kylie Travis plays a police negotiator who had failed in an attempt to negotiate the release of five hostages and instead are killed in an explosion (this preludes the movie in a flashback sequence). After she runs her car off the road because her mind is on the hostage incident, she is picked up by a couple played by Jim Belushi and Shannon Whirry. Jim Belushi is a loudmouth, over copensating, gun toting redneck (and those are his good qualities) transporting stolen computer chips and Shannon Whirry is quite abused by him. What follows is a car-ride that ends in murder and a chance happening across a time-machine in a secret government sponsored lab. This gives way to repeat the car-ride and incidents which follow (this may well be the longest ten minute car-ride in history). There are many small details which may seem insignificant at first but become further plot points as the story repeats itself. Each time the story repeats some action is taken differently in the hopes that it will change the outcome; often, though, making it worse. The characterizations are further developed as the story repeats. Since the story is building and fluctuating each time, it is not repetitve, and each subsequent change to the story increases the pace of the movie that much more. The directing and the story itself are well done. Where someone could have taken a story like this and let it drag by being too repetitive or lose the continuity by trying to advance the story too quickly; they came up with the right mix. 'Retroactive' is far from being shy on action; from car chases to flying lead and about everything in-between. The stand out performance in 'Retroactive' belongs to Shannon Whirry. She is incredible as the abused wife who tries to fight back. There are several in your face shots that all three play well but Shannon just seriously delivers; since this story hinges on saving her character, she gives good reason to make you want her character saved. M. Emmet Walsh is particularly nasty as Belushi's cohort in crime; and seeing Walsh's character bounced off the hood and over the roof of a speeding station wagon gives great satisfaction. Kylie Travis in her tight black pantsuit, white shirt and push-up bra is particularly captivating and exciting everytime she beats up Jim Belushi. 'Retroactice' is an exciting (at times loud), well paced, well scripted action movie with a great sci-fi premise. Ultimately this movie is not so much about time travel as it is about regrets about decisions we have made or not made and the blame we place on ourselves. If given the opportunity to change things we may find that we can actually make it worse and are not to blame for the natural course that events will take with or without us.-Bob