Either I am too stupid to "get it" or the one's who claim to get it are afraid of appearing too stupid, like an "Emperor's New Clothes" kind of thing? i won't insist on the latter. I mean it was easy enough to see the artistic attempt, a kind of Picasso thing or something using film making rather than paint. Employing many devices such as masks on Psychologists, and serving up cups of coffee supposedly individually programmed to a person's current needs in something ....

Look, I am not Mensa or anything, not educated in critiquing of art etc. But at the same time I am also not one that can stand being force fed things employing idiot laugh tracks or gross cliché otherwise found so enjoyable to the lower end of the scale...ya know? Somewhere in the middle is what I am saying, for whatever that is worth, considering my opinion.

Bottom line, for me personally? it was a big fat FAIL. I don't think anyone could honestly, straight faced not immediately recognize that much of the acting lacked severely ....amateur hour kind of of thing one might see in after hours soft cable porn or high school plays etc. Don't get me wrong, I mean I really do think I sort of see what the screenplay and direction attempted to do, but it just fails IMHO...as they say "Your Mileage may Vary" (YMMV?) I am thinking that someone more skilled MIGHT be able to pull something off like this attempt, but these folks just failed in my case. (did I overuse the word "fail"? I don't think so...lol)

I'm not sure I could even begin to describe this film's plot, save that it has something to do with street-merchant psychics and the maybe-maybe-not deaths of two policemen. It bounces back and forth through time — not to mention alternate times — so much that for the first little while, you're sure to be wondering what you've gotten yourself into by watching it.

But about halfway through, suddenly it all starts to make some sort of elegantly distant sense, and you find yourself getting wrapped up in the story of someone who might or might not have killed someone and who might or might not be working at a place where he divines the owners of bits of stuff for the benefit of unknown powers that be.

I know I'm not making a lot of sense. Neither does FOUND IN TIME. It has a secondary character who might be God or might be someone else. We're not sure, and the screenwriter doesn't say for certain one way or another. But his job appears to be to send people around in time to do... something... somehow...

It's just strange and odd and yet very compelling. A friend of mine described it as "12 Monkeys without a budget" — and yet it's not because it's far more complex. You have to keep your wits about you watching a movie like this.

The reason for eight stars and not 10? It has its shortcomings — the masks the psychologists wear look, at the outset, a little... okay, a lot silly. I understand the concept behind them, but they don't really work all that well. And there are moments when the storyline becomes a little too self-reflectively precious... and yet I'm not sure where you could trim that away without ruining the very distinct pleasure this film offers. And while most of the performances are distinctly compelling, a few — specifically, the two policemen and the girlfriend — are just a tad over the top, thus ruining the "reality" the film seeks to portray.

But I can forgive those, actually: it's a low-budget indie film, after all. Once you look past those are how wondrously brilliant the conceit and its execution are, there are joys to be found.

Just watch out for the nails...