2005 · sci-fi · heist · time-loop
Slipstream
Directed by David van Eyssen1h 29m2005
A scientist plots a bank robbery based around his newest invention -- a time travel gadget that will send its user 10 minutes into the past. Everything goes according to plan, until he encounters a group of thieves who've planned their heist for the same day.
Our read: Slipstream (2005) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · heist · time-loop entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured sci-fi / heist, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- kinetic
- cold
- twisty
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