Movie Review: RESET

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN / Staff Writer

Posted: August 23rd, 2025 / 02:14 AM

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Rating: Not Rated
Stars: Adam Holley, Caitlin Westfall, Lorelai Brown, Tim O’Hearn, Reese Ravencraft, Brendan Curtin
Writer: Michael Yammine
Director: Michael Yammine
Distributor: Uncork’d Entertainment
Release Date: August 12, 2025 (digital, VOD)

There is the quality of a science-fiction short story to RESET, which brings together a number of different concepts interacting with each other to create an intricate if possibly overly dense whole.

The title of RESET refers to a temporal phenomenon that has been happening to unfortunate farmer Lucas (Adam Holley) ever since his nine-year-old daughter Eden (Lorelai Brown) was abducted by aliens.

The aliens have done something to Lucas’s mind, so that he experiences time out of sequence with the rest of the world. When he shows up at the local diner and greets friendly waitress Ruth (Caitlin Westfall) and says it’s good to see her again after so long, she observes that it’s been about twenty-four hours since Lucas’s last visit there.

At night, the aliens – toothy eyeless bipeds – torment Lucas physically and psychologically. Lucas leaves recorded messages for himself, partly to try to keep track of what’s happening and partly to make sure he stays focused on his mission of rescuing Eden, wherever and whenever she is.

There is a great deal going on throughout RESET, especially with the temporal jumps and, well, resets, along with the aliens’ motives There’s a lot to take in thematically and emotionally.

Writer/director Michael Yammine plays fairly with us – at least, as fairly as he can without giving the game away – but by the end, this reviewer at least wasn’t sure she’d entirely processed all of the information provided.

Yammine creates plenty of suspense in terms of who is showing up where and the aliens’ malicious habit of impersonating loved ones. Most of the key cast are called upon to play human, memory and alien versions of their characters, and all do it very well.

Holley puts guts and pained sincerity into the much-abused Lucas. Westfall radiates kindness as the goodhearted Ruth. Brown shows herself to be a versatile young performer with Eden’s multiple guises. Tim O’Hearn and Reese Ravencraft also make strong contributions.

While RESET is meant to take place in the present (give or take the temporal anomalies), filmmaker Yammine’s use of empty fields and sparsely inhabited areas give the movie a timeless look and feel.

RESET is one of those movies that might have benefitted from being longer, to give its individual ideas more room to breathe. As it is, it’s made well on a tight budget and gives viewers a lot to ponder.

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