Time Lapse
A future-seeing camera turns three friends’ easy betting scheme into a paranoid struggle over greed, trust, and control.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- paranoid
- cerebral
- tense
- late night thriller viewing
- indie sci fi marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly found the contained high-concept thriller intelligent, effective, and well made, even if its premise was not especially groundbreaking.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The three friends primarily confront the future-imaging machine and its consequences within their shared flat.
The camera produces photographs of events that have not yet occurred, encouraging the friends to act on those images.
The friends’ betting scheme and competing greed turn their collaboration into suspicion and backstabbing.
Future photographs reveal increasingly troubling possibilities while the friends lose faith in one another.
Films like Time Lapse, and why
Primer
Shares a contained science fiction premise, escalating paranoia, and moral consequences of manipulating future knowledge.
Predestination
Combines time manipulation with an intricate mystery, mounting distrust, and a cerebral thriller structure.
The One I Love
Uses speculative technology to expose strained relationships and create tense, psychologically destabilizing consequences.
Coherence
Shares a claustrophobic ensemble setup, speculative mystery, and escalating suspicion among friends.
Movie Details
- Director
- Bradley King
- Release Date
- 2014-05-18
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 (1454)
Cast
- Danielle Panabaker
- Matt O'Leary
- George Finn
- John Rhys-Davies
- Amin Joseph
- Jason Spisak
- Sharon Maughan
- David Figlioli
- Judith Drake
- Mark C. Hanson
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- XLTV Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Time Lapse about?
- A future-seeing camera turns three friends’ easy betting scheme into a paranoid struggle over greed, trust, and control.
- What is Time Lapse like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Time Lapse as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Time Lapse violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Time Lapse as mild.
- What did critics think of Time Lapse?
- Critics broadly found the contained high-concept thriller intelligent, effective, and well made, even if its premise was not especially groundbreaking.
- Which films are like Time Lapse?
- Films with a similar feel include Primer, Predestination, The One I Love, and Coherence.
- How long is Time Lapse?
- Time Lapse runs 104 minutes.
- Where can I watch Time Lapse?
- In United States, Time Lapse streams on XLTV Amazon Channel .
