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Rating: Not Rated
Stars: Samuel Dunning, Felicia Day, Joel McHale, Danny Trejo, Keith David. Simson Snead
Writer: Stimson Snead
Director: Stimson Snead
Distributor: Disrupt Entertainment
Release Date: May 30, 2025

TIM TRAVERS & THE TIME TRAVELERS PARADOX treads a fine line. On the one hand, its heated and heady debates about the nature of time travel and the universe itself are discussions that the viewer can’t actually join.

On the other hand, Tim Travers (Samuel Dunning) is presented as a snobbish jerk. We’re not sure if we want to spend time with even one of him, much less all the Tim Traverses (all Dunning) that are a consequence of his experiments.

Writer/director Stimson Snead, who also has a supporting role as an increasingly perplexed hitman, comes up with clever solutions for these problems. For the first, so many points of view are presented that almost everybody is going to feel represented by one of them.

For the second, things snowball along at a rapid enough pace for us to have not gotten completely exasperated with Tim before he starts developing a certain level of self-awareness. Part of the film’s suspense is how far this can go.

At the beginning, we see that Tim has a company called Advanced Particle Solutions. Appearing on a fringe podcast talk show, Tim casually insults host James Bunratty (Joel McHale), much to the delight of Bunratty’s producer Delilah (Felicia Day) and the staff. Delilah even goes out with Tim for a drink, although he manages to alienate her partway through.

But Tim’s real fixation is on the time machine he’s made, which can deliver him one minute into the past. Tim wants to see if or how killing his past self affects his present self. Despite all the self-slaughter, eventually there are a bunch of Tims, all trying to figure out what they’re doing and what they’re proving.

The movie blessedly doesn’t succumb to the temptation to get overly meta. When one of the Tims reasonably asks another, “Who are you explaining this for?” – after all, all the Tims have the same scientific knowledge – there’s an in-universe response that doesn’t knock out the fourth wall.

There is also comparison of various concepts, such as how multiple timelines differ from an actual multiverse. It’s a bit like the exposition in Marvel, DC and DOCTOR WHO, except here it’s much more about the topic than the life-and-death cosmic stakes.

Dunning is positively heroic in delivering small nuances to delineate identities, yet maintaining Tim’s character through all his personas. The technology employed to create so many of him in the same shot is thoroughly impressive.

Day and McHale lock on to the film’s unique wavelength with expertise, and Danny Trejo and Keith David show up in brief but impactful appearances.

TIM TRAVERS & THE TIME TRAVELERS PARADOX is somewhat like the time machine, in that it works to a point, but it’s hard to pinpoint exactly how or how much. It is consistently amusing without being hilarious, it’s engaging without being riveting, and it’s smart without leaving us awestruck.

For all its blood, explosions, and admirable special effects, TIM TRAVERS & THE TIME TRAVELERS PARADOX winds up feeling more than anything else like a dramatization of one of those trippy late-night arguments with sci-fi-loving friends.

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